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Hasta la vista, Resident Evil: Governator and AG want violent videogame ban reinstated

By Richard Binder

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Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown will appeal the US Supreme Court to reinstate a law banning the sale and rental of violent video games to minors.

A federal appeals court struck down the law in February claiming it violated free speech, and there was too much room to include materials to ban under the guise of protecting children.  Brown's petition asks the court to address the question of whether extremely violent material sold to children could be treated the same as sexually explicit material.

Four of the Supreme Court's nine justices need to grant the California petition in order for the case to be reviewed.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).

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