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California Submitting Arguments in Schwarzenegger v. EMA Today

By pete_gallagher

The office of California State Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) let us know that the state's Attorney General Jerry Brown (D-Oakland) will submit California's written argument to the Supreme Court, which voices the Golden State's backing of a law that would make it illegal to rent or sell 'excessively' violent videogames to children.

Yee is, of course, the original author of the law (AB 1179), which has made it all the way to the front of the Supreme Court in the form of Schwarzenegger v. EMA.

Citing a SCOTUS decision in United States v. Stevens, in which the Court declined to ban media depicting animal cruelty, Yee indicated that the law may have been constitutional if it was more focused, stating, 'Clearly, the justices want to look specifically at our narrowly tailored law that simply limits sales of ultra-violent games to kids without prohibiting speech.'

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).