Tag: SUPREMECOURT

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 ...

The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was passed in 1998 following a similar law that was struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. COPA, which never went into effect, would have made it illegal for Web sites to make sexual or objectionable content available to minors. The challenge was handled by the ACLU on behalf of a coalition of writers, artists, educators, and the Salon Media ...

When former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stepped down from the highest bench in the nation and went into retirement in 2005, she was all but guaranteed a raft of speaking engagements, thanks to her years as one of the most influential people in the nation. Few would have pegged her as a future video game designer, however. But video games are exactly what she's working on now: ...