Undisclosed state? NY. My Supervisor and Management gave me the OK to organize my pool years ago. Also, other coworkers have run lottery pools in the past where I was not told about it until their pools disbanded. In organizing and running this pool, I'm not doing anything illegal. I had a sign prominently up on the bulletin board announcing my lottery pool for the first 3 years. Its not as though my pool a secret. I do money collections before we punch the time clock or after work.

Again, my question is, as the organizer, can I legally decide who's in and who's out of my pool, or could a coworker successfully sue me or the pool if we won a jackpot, by claiming they were not asked to participate?