{"id":1812,"date":"2004-12-30T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2018-07-28T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T20:38:20","slug":"1812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/30\/1812\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules Are Made To Be Litigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/484\/5159346.html\" target=\"_new\">94-year-old lottery winner doesn&#8217;t want to wait for her cash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Massachusetts woman says she wants her lottery winnings now &#8212; because she&#8217;s 94 and isn&#8217;t likely to live another 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Louise Outing won $5.6 million in September.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s the policy of the Massachusetts lottery to pay out jackpots from its Megabucks game over 20 years. In this case, that would be about $200,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>Outing&#8217;s lawyer is asking a judge to force the lottery to pay her now in a lump sum, minus taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Personal call for attorneys:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dear sirs, the policy of the Missouri lottery is that it won&#8217;t pay out a lottery jackpot until you win it.  However, given the astronomical odds, it will take me thousands of years playing the same number every week to win a jackpot.  As I shall probably not live to see that day, please litigate on my behalf to force the Missouri lottery to force an immediate payout minus taxes.  Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>94-year-old lottery winner doesn&#8217;t want to wait for her cash: A Massachusetts woman says she wants her lottery winnings now &#8212; because she&#8217;s 94 and isn&#8217;t likely to live another 20 years. Louise Outing won $5.6 million in September. But it&#8217;s the policy of the Massachusetts lottery to pay out jackpots from its Megabucks game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20745,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/20745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}