Latour v. State

hDECUIR, Judge.

This appeal arises from a class action lawsuit which challenges the statutory minimum age requirements for the purchase of state lottery tickets and the use of video poker machines. Defendants appeal the issuance of a temporary restraining order and the denial of an exception of nonjoinder. For the reasons which follow, we affirm the trial court’s ruling on the exception and vacate the temporary restraining order.

FACTS

The representative plaintiffs are a twenty-year-old resident of Louisiana who has been denied the right to purchase a lottery ticket and play video poker, a video…