In little more than two weeks a hearing will be held in the Alhambra Court in Los Angeles County of California in the case for the lawsuit for the alleged theft of the $2,000 million dollar Powerball ticket, in which he appears as one of those indicated Edwin Castro, Hispanic who claimed the prize before the state lottery.
The case summary on lacourt.org specifies that the court date will be at 8:30 am at 150 West Commonwealth.
El Diario de Nueva York had already anticipated in a previous writing about the judicial meeting. The description of the hearing indicates that it is a process to evaluate the motion that requests the annulment of the service of the process. The purpose of this type of appeal is to declare a court order invalid.
It is not clear if the hearing should be attended by all parties.
The appeal was filed by Castro on May 25. The Hispanic argues that the authorities failed to deliver the documents of the lawsuit in which José Rivera alleges that the winning ticket for the highest prize in the history of the lottery in the United States was stolen. Instead of supplying him with the material; Supposedly, they handed over the papers to his father, who has the same name.
Aside from Castro, the lawsuit led by Rivera identifies the California State Lottery Commission and Urachi F. Romero as defendants.
Rivera, through his defense team, argues that Romero stole the winning ticket for the jackpot in the November 8 draw.
Romero, who rented a room in his home from Rivera last year, denied appropriating the ticket. However, in an interview with the New York Post, he acknowledged that Rivera showed him the winning ticket and explained why he selected the winning numbers.
The lawsuit does not specify how the ticket got into Castro’s hands. Precisely, that is also one of the questions from the latter’s lawyers to question the credibility of the claim.
Neither Castro nor Rivera have spoken publicly about the complaint and the scope of the lawsuit.
A Rivera lawyer limited himself to indicating to the aforementioned newspaper that Romero would have taken the winning ticket from a table.
The California Lottery, for its part, has asked to be excluded from the litigation on the grounds that it is a public entity and that the person who claims a higher prize with the winning ticket is considered a winner regardless of whether they bought it or not.
After the hearing scheduled for July 19, there is another one scheduled for the 24th of the same month. The process is a case management conference. This is an initial process that all parties to a case must attend to see how the case is progressing.
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