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California AG Wants US Supreme Court to Regulate Violent Games

by Warren Riddle on May 22, 2009 at 08:31 AM

Heads up to all you young gamers out there -- California Attorney General Jerry Brown is taking his anti-video game crusade all the way to the United States Supreme Court. On Wednesday, Mr. Brown petitioned the nation's highest court to uphold a proposed California state law banning the sale or rental of violent games to children.

According to the LA Times, a federal district court shot down the law back in 2007 because of that pesky 1st Amendment. Just this February, an appeals court subsequently upheld the 2007 ruling. Is that enough to stop Brown? Nope. He's taking the fight all the way to Washington, which would be the first gaming regulation case to make it to the Supreme Court, although we doubt it'll get that far -- eight other similar cases from other states have tried and failed.



Mr. Brown isn't saying anything about television or movie violence (he is in California after all), but he frequently likens video game violence to pornography, which we think might just be a tad hypocritical.

Interestingly enough, the law was originally signed in 2005 by The Governator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Perhaps he was just bitter about the incredibly horrible reviews of the 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' game. [From: The Los Angeles Times]

Tags: court, ratings, supreme court, supremecourt, top, violence

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