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Law Professor: Canadian Online Lottery Case Misses Point3 May 2002PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND – As reported by Globe and Mail: "If an Ontario resident purchases a lottery ticket on a Web site hosted in Prince Edward Island, does the purchase occur in Ontario or PEI? What if, when clicking "I agree" to the terms and conditions of the sale, the purchaser agrees to a jurisdiction clause that identifies PEI as the home to the transaction? Moreover, what if the actual selection of the winning lottery numbers occurs off-line in a Charlottetown office that also handles all of the lottery's administrative work? These were just some of the complex questions facing the PEI Supreme Court in a recent case involving the Earth Future Lottery, a PEI-based lottery that obtained provincial approval to operate on-line -- only to have its plans derailed in court. To read the rest of the article, please click here. |