Illinois to Pay for Unconstitutional Gaming Law

adam_sd writes "Those of us in the Video Game Voters Network were emailed a press release today stating that the state of Illinois will have to pay a half-million dollars in attorney's fees to the Entertainment Software Association, Video Software Dealers Association and Illinois Retail Merchants Association. ESA president Douglas Lowenstein is quoted in the press release saying "Judge Kennelly's rulings send two irrefutable messages — not only are efforts to ban the sale of violent video games clearly unconstitutional, they are a waste of taxpayer dollars." The law was declared unconstitutional in December of last year."

Comments

Re:Logic?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or, at least send him a kindly worded letter, thanking him for standing up for our rights. It's not an easy position to take in this day and age, and anyone who sticks their neck out for my country deserves a debt of gratiitude. And, yes, the Constitution MATTERS!

Think of the children!

[Riding Spinners]

States rights just means undoing the good stuff the ACLU did, i.e.

1. Being able to persecute minority religions (prior to the ACLU it was actually illegal to be of the wrong religion in many places).
2. Outlawing abortion.
3. Eliminating enviromental legislation.
4. Keeping black people from voting.

etc...
Of course, few strict constructionist judges ever notice that the war on drugs is clearly unconstitutional too.

Logic FTW

[Kawahee]

If millions of people play violent video games and don't act out what they see in the games, then when somebody does... maybe it's not the game, it's the person.