Minnesota pays ESA $65k in legal fees
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on Jun 30th 2008 2:29PM
The Entertainment Software Association (
ESA) announced today that the state of Minnesota has paid $65,000 – that's $6.50 for every lake – in attorney's fees and expenses to the organization over its
unconstitutional game law. The ESA claims it has now been awarded moneys totaling almost $2 million for fees and expenses incurred by defending the industry in other jurisdictions.
Bringing out fightin' words, ESA CEO Mike Gallagher said that Minnesota's taxpayers should be "outraged" by having to pay this bill after its elected officials ignored precedent and pursued a political agenda. Gallagher wants politicians to get behind the efforts of the
ESRB "rather than continue to pursue unconstitutional legislation."
