California AG Wants US Supreme Court to Regulate Violent Games
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]





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Subscribe to commentsTigreMay 22nd 2009 12:26PM
Isn't this a waste of state money? Plus since the SC takes the 1st Amendment very seriously and other states have failed isn't this a waste of Supreme Court time?
xbplaya1122May 22nd 2009 4:05PM
hmmmm i guess the ESRB rating on all video games isnt regulating it enough??? the problem is that kids keep whining and the parents dont wanna hear it but the parents cant whack the kids strait.....wanna regulate it??? make it legal to spank ur kids again.....a lot of them little pricks need a good beaten....i can speak for all adults over 30...when you did something wrong, u got a beaten for it and you knew not to do it again....