ESA wants Schwarzenegger to pay for legal fees
by Ross Miller 
{ Sep 6th 2007 at 3:25PM }
California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger made good on his promise today to file an appeal over a judge's ruling that a recently-proposed violent video games law was unconstitutional. In apparent retaliation, the Entertainment Software Association has filed a motion for California to recoup $324,840 in legal fees for its previous, successful challenge against the law.In a statement, the ESA said that if the motion is granted, the industry will have been awarded a total of $1.9 million in fee and expenses for "defending its First Amendment rights" in this case and eight others. The trade association has a pretty good batting average so far, but does it have the firepower to defeat a T-101
[Update: Although we like the thought of a robotic insectoid turtle monster, we have to provide canonical accuracy. The T-101 skeleton was on the inside of the body. Fixed.]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Vegnagun @ Sep 6th 2007 3:33PM
Watch his violent movies but don't play the video games.
Neebs @ Sep 6th 2007 3:38PM
I have nothing to add.
mr nimblewick @ Sep 6th 2007 3:49PM
I have nothing to add, either.
hvnlysoldr @ Sep 6th 2007 8:29PM
I can clearly remember 40 quotes from the Terminator movies. My brother and I watched those and Robocop's movies about ... guessing 50 times or more. I've watched some of his other movies and my dad usually rented them for us. But he always made sure to watch with us at first and made sure I didn't throw up when he cut his eye out. Or his arm.
Phranctoast @ Sep 6th 2007 3:43PM
who is your daddy, and what does he do?
Rubang B @ Sep 6th 2007 4:19PM
My daddy stays home and looks at pictures of vaginas all day.
AstroZombie @ Sep 6th 2007 4:41PM
Boys have a penis.
Girls have a vagina.
LAZoftheTamarinds @ Sep 6th 2007 10:11PM
Hey AstroZombie didn't a little boy in arnold schwarzenegger's "The Kindergarten Cop" say that. LOL.
Counterfe1t @ Sep 6th 2007 3:48PM
geez just take the damn win and leave it be
Matt B @ Sep 6th 2007 3:48PM
Do you know the Dewey decimal system?!?
Alex @ Sep 6th 2007 3:56PM
Haha, UHF rocks!
Mr Slavio @ Sep 6th 2007 3:49PM
T-800 ain't it?
robert @ Sep 6th 2007 4:08PM
in the special edition of T2 there's a scene where he reboots and the upper-left of his HUD reads "Series 800 Model 101 Version 2.4".
so he's a T-101 model of the T-800 series
ikiryou @ Sep 6th 2007 4:07PM
"...a recently-proposed violent video games laws was unconstitutional."
Can you spot the spelling/grammatical error in this sentence portion?
Rubang B @ Sep 6th 2007 4:20PM
Yes.
Shagittarius @ Sep 6th 2007 4:11PM
Get to the choppa!
Rubang B @ Sep 6th 2007 4:20PM
Yes.
Rubang B @ Sep 6th 2007 4:21PM
Stupid reply system errors. It almost makes me want to get a job at Joystiq just so I can go through all the archives and delete all my double posts and accidental new threads.
Crono @ Sep 6th 2007 4:29PM
Here's a better idea, why don't you get a job at joystiq and FIX THEIR FCKING COMMENT SYSTEM!
Almack64 @ Sep 6th 2007 4:37PM
Yeah Rubang do that and while your added fix the broken links that are in the emails you get when people reply to you.
Almack64 @ Sep 6th 2007 4:38PM
wow I typed added instead of at it.
Gold star to me and my edumecation.
bigd7387 @ Sep 6th 2007 5:18PM
When will these idiots stop with screwing the tax payers. These "Officials", who are crooks, bathroom cop lovers, just keep on trying to enforce their twisted morals on people and the courts keep telling them their wrong but hey it's not their money, its ours.
Fuck'em all. The only people losing in these cases are us the gamers. 1st Admendment will not be changed because of a bunch of God loving hypocrites.
mike @ Sep 6th 2007 5:37PM
The T-101 is an Endoskeleton not an Exoskeleton. But either way he would still kick ass.
Mr Slavio @ Sep 6th 2007 5:54PM
Na, check out the wikipedia page they linked. I guess Cameron explained it in the director's commentary.
Like robert said, 101 is the model # of the outer layer of tissue that looks like Arnold. T-800 is the series of the metal endoskeleton terminators that we've come to know.
I still don't think it's correct to call T-101 the exoskeleton since it's just a layer of tissue, and exoskeletons are typically a hard, protective outer layer, like a lobster shell or something, but I guess I'm overanalyzing.
Kalroy @ Sep 6th 2007 8:49PM
This is pretty normal. Organizations get awarded massive legal fees and such whenever they win a civil rights related suit. The ACLU makes a lot of its money this way. The law was originally made so that such challenges would be feasible for small grassroots organizations.
Just one in a long list of examples of good intentions, poor implementation, leading to unforseen results. In this case it means that groups that readily have the wherewithal to make these challenges make a large profit on a challenge they could already afford. It also leads to frivilous lawsuits where the plaintiff counts on the governmental organization not wanting to take the monetary hit of a suit; such as the cross being removed from the City of Angels official seal.
Kalroy