A discarded Arkansas Lottery ticket turns out to be a $1 million winner, and now three women are fighting over who owns it. [ABC]
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on January 27, 2012
A discarded Arkansas Lottery ticket turns out to be a $1 million winner, and now three women are fighting over who owns it. [ABC]
Tagged as: gambling, property law

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So 3 alledged winners, 3 attorneys (so far) and only $1 million to argue over.
These women will be lucky to end this experience with pocket change left over.
They’ll all probably end up owing their attorneys for things not covered in their contingency contracts.
Fire the attorneys and take it to one of those TV judges.
It’s a good thing she’s in Arkansas! If she was in California there’d be another person wanting her money: Rob Reiner, who led the campaign for this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Mental_Health_Services_Act
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