California game law won't be back

by Alexander Sliwinski { Aug 6th 2007 at 6:55PM }

The California game law which would have restricted anyone under the age of 18 from buying or renting "violent video games" has been effectively terminated. The bill, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger back in 2005, which was created by politician Leland Yee, had a preliminary injunction put on it while the ESA fought the bill in the courts. Today a judge made the injunction permanent.

The bill follows in the long list of game laws found unconstitutional at this point. Yet, that still doesn't stop more states from attempting to recycle the tired legislation. According to Bo Andersen, president of the Entertainment Merchants Association, "It was inevitable that the federal district court would find the California video game restriction law unconstitutional, as eight similar laws around the country have been overturned in the past six years." Ready kids, here comes the fun part -- how much is California going to have to pay the ESA back for fighting the law? Politicians need to learn that when they push through unconstitutional laws, it's the taxpayer who pay -- literally.

Tags: california, defeat, gamelaw, schwarzenegger, terminator, yee

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

dark54555 @ Aug 6th 2007 7:01PM

More legal-type commentary on the opinion here:

http://lawofthegame.blogspot.com/2007/08/california-game-law-unconsitutional.html

hvnlysoldr @ Aug 6th 2007 7:04PM

599 USD

Avatar @ Aug 6th 2007 7:35PM

That never gets old.

Donald @ Aug 6th 2007 10:29PM

Curse you, I was going for that line.

With a few extra 0s tacked on at the end, of course.

Poisoned Al @ Aug 6th 2007 7:15PM

I'm from the UK and know next to nothing about US law (besides if you're rich, famous or the president's pal, you can get away with anything), but even I knew that this was "unconstitutional." The only way they can hammer this sort of crap though the US courts is to attach terrorism to it. Just you watch, some little time and money wasting git will claim that Halo is a terrorist training tool.