Minimum gambling age of 21 upheld
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001 | 11:05 a.m.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law setting 21 as the minimum age to play the state lottery or video poker.
Monday's decision overturns a ruling by Judge Preston Aucoin of Ville Platte.
Aucoin gained notoriety when he ruled, similarly, that a 1995 law raising the drinking age to 21 was discriminatory under Louisiana's Constitution, which clearly establishes 18 as the age of majority.
The Supreme Court overruled him in that case also.
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