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Louisiana to Pay $92,000 After Game Law Fight

Posted by Zonk on from the courteous-hosts dept.

After Louisiana's unsuccessful anti-games legislation bid last year, the judge ordered the state to pay the court costs for the ESA and EMA. This week, Judge Brady ordered the state to shell out some $92,000 to the organizations in compensation for wasted time. "Within the ruling, Judge Brady also said he was "dumbfounded" that the state was in the position of having to shell out taxpayer money over this, noting that the law had to pass through legal review at every step. Given that similar statutes were declared unconstitutional in a number of jurisdictions, "the Court wonders why nobody objected to the enactment of this statute. In this court's view, the taxpayers deserve more from their elected officials.""

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  1. Here's Why... by zoward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "the Court wonders why nobody objected to the enactment of this statute. In this court's view, the taxpayers deserve more from their elected officials."

    No Louisiana official wants to go on public record as being against a video game restriction statute, as they believe this might hurt their chances of re-election.

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  2. Why stop there? by kinglink · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why not charge the 91K to the lawyers who lobbied for these laws? The Jack Thompsons of the world. If it wasn't for him decrying the state of games for years Louisiana wouldn't have tried to push the bill.

    Make every mistake that Jack Thompson make not just hurt the state, but hurt him. He wants to bring frivolous law suits and decry every problem as video games fault people should turn around and demand the money from him.

    At the very least let's hold him accountable for his rants, coming out with in hours of the Virgina Tech shooting and blaming video games is nothing short of morbid. It's 2000 equivalent of ambulance chasing and it needs to stop.

  3. Re:More ducking/shirking/passing the buck by PresidentEnder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Davy Crockett, of all people....

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  4. Am I the only one who caught this part? by RobertM1968 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This week, Judge Brady ordered the state to shell out some $92,000 to the organizations in compensation for wasted time.

    "Within the ruling, Judge Brady also said he was "dumbfounded" that the state was in the position of having to shell out taxpayer money over this, noting that the law had to pass through legal review at every step...."

    So, what the judge is saying is that he thinks it is bad that the taxpayers have had to pay for this fiasco, so let's fine the state $92,000 so the taxpayers have to pay even more?

    Sad irony that what he is doing is correct (paying the injured parties) yet contradicts the ridiculousness of the fact that this shouldnt have happened and the taxpayers shouldnt have had to lay out the initial sum, much less the added $92k.

    :-(

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