{"id":195873,"date":"2021-12-17T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=195873"},"modified":"2021-12-17T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:22:32","slug":"ohio-supreme-court-kills-case-claiming-vaccine-lottery-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ohio-supreme-court-kills-case-claiming-vaccine-lottery-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Supreme Court Kills Case Claiming Vaccine Lottery Unconstitutional, Unethical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio\u2019s Supreme Court has tossed a lawsuit brought by a group of anti-vaxxers who argued the state\u2019s \u201cVax-a-Million<\/a>\u201d lottery was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

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Ohio Gov. Mike Dewine, pictured, was named in a lawsuit that claimed Vax-a-Million promoted \u201cdangerous, experimental, and untested DNA altering poisons.\u201d (Image: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The complaint claimed the lottery\u2019s use of public money without legislative approval violated Ohio law.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs’ campaign group, \u201cOhio Stands Up!\u201d, also wanted the lotteries to be banned to \u201cprevent child abuse and the criminal battery of children in Ohio by dangerous experimental and untested DNA-altering poisonous mRNA shots.\u201d<\/p>\n

They claimed the lotteries violated the Nuremberg Code, an ethics doctrine related to experiments with human subjects, drawn up during the Nuremberg trials at the end of World War II.<\/p>\n

\u2018Frivolous Lawsuit\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The court dismissed the case largely on procedural grounds, declining to rule on the constitutional claims or to be drawn on the dubious medical theories contained in the document. The court said the plaintiffs did not have proper standing in a high court.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Gov. Mike DeWine told The Ohio Capital-Journal<\/em> it is the Governor\u2019s Office policy not to comment on \u201cfrivolous lawsuits.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Ohio Stands Up!” explains on its website that its mission is to \u201ceducate Ohioans and all Americans on the reality of COVID-19 while ensuring our constitutional rights are honored in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohio was the first state to launch a lottery in an effort to boost its COVID-19 vaccination program. Other states followed suit from mid-2021, as vaccine rates began to level off. <\/strong><\/p>\n

New York even launched \u201cScratch and Vax,\u201d a program that distributed free scratch-off tickets to the newly inoculated. But in October, a study<\/a> by the University of Denver\u00a0suggested that the lotteries don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

All in Vein<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Researchers looked at the 19 states that adopted vaccine lottery programs, calculating the number of shots administered per 1,000 people, both before and after their introduction.<\/p>\n

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Comparing the figures to states with no vaccine lotteries, they found \u201cno statistically significant\u201d difference between the two groups. That\u2019s after adjusting for a variety of factors, including a region\u2019s wealth, population, number of COVID-19 cases, and political leanings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The researchers suggested the lack of a guaranteed outcome in a lottery may fail to motivate people. That would indicate that a program of direct payments might be more effective, although there is no comparable study to verify this.<\/p>\n

It may be that states that held vaccine lotteries would have been better off funneling the money into boosting an awareness campaign that offered complete messaging about vaccination and countered misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ohio\u2019s Supreme Court has tossed a lawsuit brought by a group of anti-vaxxers who argued the state\u2019s \u201cVax-a-Million\u201d lottery was unconstitutional. The complaint claimed the lottery\u2019s use of public money without legislative approval violated Ohio law. The plaintiffs’ campaign group, \u201cOhio Stands Up!\u201d, also wanted the lotteries to be banned to \u201cprevent child abuse and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":195874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81881,13699],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOhio Supreme Court Kills Case Claiming Vaccine Lottery Unconstitutional<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ohio Vax-a-million lottery case, brought by anti-vaxxers Ohio Stands Up!, has no place in the Supreme Court, a judge said on Thursday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ohio Supreme Court Kills Case Claiming Vaccine Lottery Unconstitutional\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ohio Vax-a-million lottery case, brought by anti-vaxxers Ohio Stands Up!, has no place in the Supreme Court, a judge said on Thursday.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ohio-supreme-court-kills-case-claiming-vaccine-lottery-unconstitutional\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-17T20:02:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-17T21:22:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mike.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casinoorgphilc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ohio-supreme-court-kills-case-claiming-vaccine-lottery-unconstitutional\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ohio-supreme-court-kills-case-claiming-vaccine-lottery-unconstitutional\/\",\"name\":\"Ohio Supreme Court Kills Case Claiming Vaccine Lottery Unconstitutional\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ohio-supreme-court-kills-case-claiming-vaccine-lottery-unconstitutional\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ohio-supreme-court-kills-case-claiming-vaccine-lottery-unconstitutional\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mike.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-17T20:02:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-17T21:22:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\"},\"description\":\"Ohio Vax-a-million lottery case, brought by anti-vaxxers Ohio Stands Up!, has no place in the Supreme Court, a judge said on Thursday.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ohio-supreme-court-kills-case-claiming-vaccine-lottery-unconstitutional\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ohio-supreme-court-kills-case-claiming-vaccine-lottery-unconstitutional\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ohio-supreme-court-kills-case-claiming-vaccine-lottery-unconstitutional\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mike.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mike.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"Ohio Gov. 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