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Schwarzenegger and Yee defend CA violent games law
Yesterday, the ESA officially filed a lawsuit against infamous California violent games law - once known as bill AB1179 - claiming the law violates the First Amendment. Today, Governor Schwarzenegger and bill author Leland Yee responded to the...
California seeks US Supreme Court review of 'violent game ban' [update]
The state of California is asking the United States Supreme Court to review a US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision from February regarding its 2005 "violent video game law," declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. According to...
Retailers react violently to violent game laws
"Frivolous and irresponsible." Think this is being used to describe video game retailers who sell violent games to minors? Nope. It's being used to describe the proposed legislation to prevent just that. An interesting choice of words to say the le...
IEMA ready to fight CA violent videogame law
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently, at almost the last possible moment, signed bill AB1179 into law. The bill, which has gained much attention online, requires extra warning labels to be placed on violent games, as well fining ...
California violent games law temporarily terminated
Another violent games law has bitten the dust - for a few months, at least. A district judge in California has placed an injunction on the California violent games law, promoted by governor Arnold "Kindergarten Cop" Schwarzenegger, set to take effec...
Proposal in Swiss government could ban violent games
According to a report out of consonant-heavy Swiss gaming site GamesMarkt, Switzerland's parliament recently passed a law that could lead to an across the board ban on "violent" games being sold in the country. Apparently a proposal was inked last m...
ESA, VSDA file suit against California violent games law
As predicted last week (and, well, from the inception of the bill itself), the recently signed (and much reported) California violent video games law is about to be contested in court. The Entertainment Software Association, in conjunction with the ...
Oklahoma violent game law overturned
A federal judge today handed down an opinion (PDF link) putting a stop to an Oklahoma law that created a $1,000 fine for disseminating violent games to minors. Oklahoma now joins California, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Washington in ...
Michigan judge places hold on violent games law
US Discrict Court judge George Steeh today has blocked - albeit only temporarily - Michigan's violent games law from taken effect, citing that the state "has been unable to demonstrate the perceived harm it seeks to protect against." Steeh gives cr...
Oklahoma's tax on violent games killed
The Oklahoma bill that would have placed a 1 percent tax on "violent" video games was viciously murdered by the state's House Revenue and Tax Subcommittee on February 20. The bill, submitted by Representative Will Fourkiller, would have placed the t...
Selling violent games to minors now really illegal in Michigan
Michigan Governor Jennifer M Granholm signed the final suite of bills into law yesterday, making the sale, or rental, of violent games to minors illegal within the state of Michigan. As you might expect, the ESA is taking the new laws to task...
Activision's George Rose calls out supporters of California violent game law
Activision Blizzard vice president and chief public policy officer George Rose has once again sounded off against attacks on his industry's First Amendment protections. This time, it's in the form of an editorial for the San Francisco Chronicle whic...
Don't panic: Missouri lawmaker proposes violent game tax
State Representative Diane Franklin (R) of Camdenton, Missouri, is proposing a 1 percent sales tax on violent video games. The AP reports the tax is in response to the school shootings in Connecticut and is designed to support mental health programs...
Indiana wants its own violent games law
Not wanting to be left behind, two separate State Senators from Indiana have announced their intentions to introduce legislation in the 2006 session barring the sale of violent video games to minors. Similar laws have been ruled unconstitutional in ...
Violent games law: who's really suffering?
The ignorance and hypocrisy of modern policymakers truly knows no bounds as evidenced in Clive Thompson's analysis of the violent games bill that was recently passed into law in California. While Thompson notes the vagueness in the law's definitio...
