GTECH Corporation, the operator of the Texas Lottery, has disclosed that it may designate the Texas Lottery Commission as a “Responsible Third Party” in the $504 million lawsuit filed against GTECH by nearly 1,000 lottery players in Austin, Texas. \u00a0The disclosure was contained at the end of GTECH’s recent\u00a0Response to Request for Disclosures<\/a>.<\/p>\n The lawsuit<\/a>, pending in state district court in Travis County, alleges that GTECH used misleading and deceptive language on Fun 5’s scratch-off tickets printed by GTECH and sold in Texas. GTECH operated a nearly identical Fun 5’s game in several other states before proposing the game to the Texas Lottery Commission. \u00a0The language used by GTECH on the Fun 5’s tickets is the crux of the problem. Fun 5’s\u00a0tickets printed by GTECH in Kansas, Indiana, and Nebraska contained a tic-tac-toe game designated as Game 3. In Texas, the same tic-tac-toe game was designated as (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GTECH Corporation, the operator of the Texas Lottery, has disclosed that it may designate the Texas Lottery Commission as a “Responsible Third Party” in the $504 million lawsuit filed against GTECH by nearly 1,000 lottery players in Austin, Texas. \u00a0The…<\/span><\/p>\nBackground of the Fun 5’s lawsuit.<\/h3>\n