Apr 26,2010

Supreme Court Takes On Videogame Sales to Kids

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the states may ban the rental or sale of violent videogames to minors. Without comment, the justices said they would review California’s videogame law, which passed five years ago. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the law last year as a First Amendment free speech violation, saying among other things that there was no proof for the theory that certain videogames caused aggression in minors. The law has never been in force. Similar bans have been overturned in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Oklahoma, and in the cities of Indianapolis and St. Louis. California’s law ...

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