Injuction against LA law

Federal District Court Judge James Brady has signed a ruling supporting the Entertainment Software (ESA) and Entertainment Merchants (EMA) Associations' request for an injunction against a recent state law, one makes the sale of violent games to minors illegal. Brady argues in his ruling that the law ignores cases where videogames were declared free speech, and also the "tenuous and speculative" nature of evidence for games harming minors. The bad news for the game industry is that Attorney General Charles Foti has been dismissed as a defendant, and the industry apparently failed to list local district attorneys as a class of defendants. So for the moment, the ruling only applies to one particular parish.

by MacNN Staff