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Closure of game exhibit leads to lawsuit

By Chris Bennett, Tudor Carsten, Michael R. Coburn, Sarah Dale-Harris, Pablo Guzman, Danielle (Dani) Lemon, Chris Metcalfe and David Spratley

The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in US federal court regarding the closure of an exhibit at the Sancturary for Independent Media. The exhibit featued the game "Virtual Jihadi", a FPS which involves players hunting down George W. Bush.

New York's public works commissioner shut down the exhibit for "purported [city] code violations". The NYCLU disagreed with these reasons, saying the real reason the exhibit was shut down was because the commissioner found it to be distasteful.

A copy of the complaint is available here.

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Full post as published by Video Game Law Blog on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).