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Judge Blocks Louisiana Videogame Law
On August 24, 2006, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, Judge James Brady ruled that a Louisiana state law banning the sales of violent videogames to minors is a violation of free speech rights and cannot be enforced. Judge Brady wrote that “depictions of violence are entitled to full constitutional protection”. The statute, which was presented as being drafted to surpass constitutional scrutiny, failed to meet any of the court’s tests, including the test for vagueness.
This decision marks the seventh state or city law struck down in the last five years, with a temporary injunction granted on a state law in California and another case still pending in Oklahoma. Recently, a similar Minnesota state law was struck down, and the ESA was awarded half a million dollars in attorney’s fees for successfully having a similar Illinois state law struck down in 2005.
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