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1/29/01

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

No. 00-CA-1176

EUGENE C. LATOUR, II, CLYDE LAFLEUR and JOSEPH L. LACHNEY, JR. Versus STATE OF LOUISIANA; HONORABLE M.J. "MIKE" FOSTER, GOVERNOR; RICHARD P. IEYOUB, ATTORNEY GENERAL; WILLIAM R. "RUT" WHITTINGTON, SUPERINTENDENT, STATE POLICE

On Appeal From the Thirteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Evangeline, Honorable Preston Aucoin, Judge

JOHNSON, Justice
The district court found that La. R.S. 47:9025(B)(2) and 47:9070, which prohibit the sale or purchase of lottery tickets to persons under twenty-one years of age, and La. R.S. 27:319, which prohibits the playing or operating of video poker devices by persons under twenty-one years of age, violate La. Const. art. I

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