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Minnesota Video Game Law Not Dead

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

If Minnesota's video game legislation were a Monty Python character, right about now it would be saying "I'm getting better ... I think I'll go for a walk." Which is another way of saying that the legislation, while down, is not dead yet.

Back in March, a 3-judge panel of a US Federal Court of Appeal upheld a permanent injunction against the legislation (see our previous post).

Minnesota has now requested a new hearing on the matter which, if it occurs, will take place before the entire Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. This full hearing could be possible because of certain statements in the decision of the 3-judge panel. The video game industry can argue that there should NOT be another hearing, so it's not yet clear if there will be another hearing. If there is a new hearing, both sides will be able to present their cases again.

Coverage at GameSpot.

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Full post as published by Video Game Law Blog on April 28, 2008 (boomark / email).