Legal Opinion
People Ex Rel. Lockyer v. Pacific Gaming Technologies
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 27, 2000No. B134202PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
VOGEL (Miriam A.), J.
Pacific Gaming Technologies (PGT) places VendaTel vending machines in bus stations, truck stops, and other places where people are likely to buy prepaid telephone calling cards. Unlike ordinary vending machines, the VendaTel has a “sweepstakes” feature that pays out money. The VendaTel looks like a slot machine. It acts like a slot machine. It sounds like a slot machine. The trial court nevertheless said that *701it is not a slot machine. In our view, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck, it is a duck.1 And so it is with this duck. We…
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3Cited by10 opinions
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- Midwestern Enterprises, Inc. v. StenehjemNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 2001
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