Re: [math-fun] An illegal California lottery game

At 08:55 PM 4/20/03 -0700, Thane Plambeck wrote:

These two paragraphs are from a 11/30/98 judgement by the California 2nd Appelate District Court in a case called "Jack M Janis et. al. vs the California State Lottery Commission"

[snip] However I never found a good write up of the arguments

before the California Supreme Court in the newspapers

Anyway, does anyone else remember this thing?

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/californiastatecases/b115300.pdf for anybody who wants to start researching. The appellate ruling is boring; the lower court ruling is affirmed largely on administrative grounds, and almost none of Janis's (alleged) reasoning makes it through to the court's logic. -A