1/6/2010
On January 5, 2010, the Court of Appeals published its opinion in Attorney General v. PowerPick Players’ Club of Michigan, LLC, No. 283858. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's denial of the State’s motion for summary disposition, and remanded the action for entry of judgment finding that PowerPick's business of selling shares in pools of Michigan lottery tickets violated various anti-gambling statutes and was enjoinable as a public nuisance. The Court of Appeals found that the facts of PowerPick’s operations were not in dispute, and the only question was whether those operations violated Michigan law. Specifically, the Court of Appeals found that PowerPick's operations, where only 51% of the customers' money is used to buy lottery tickets and each customer is placed in a computer-generated pool of lottery tickets, involved the placement of illegal bets.
Read more of Jason's entry on the One Court of Justice blog here.