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Appeals Court Strikes Down California's Violent Game Ban
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has struck down as unconstitutional a California statute purporting to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. In a 30-page decision (PDF), in Video Software Dealers Association v. Schwarzenegger, the federal appeals court ruled that 'the Act, as a presumptively invalid content based restriction on speech, is subject to strict scrutiny and not the 'variable obscenity' standard from Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629 (1968). Applying strict scrutiny, we hold that the Act violates rights protected by the First Amendment because the State has not demonstrated a compelling interest, has not tailored the restriction to its alleged compelling interest, and there exist less-restrictive means that would further the State's expressed interests. Additionally, we hold that the Act's labeling requirement is unconstitutionally compelled speech under the First Amendment because it does not require the disclosure of purely factual information; but compels the carrying of the State's controversial opinion.'"
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Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
So this doesn't apply to piracy, right? Then the kids won't be affected anyway.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I think when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they never meant it to mean that a black guy could be president.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
I don't know, but I know that he won't be saying it in court!
The violent move industry is losing market share to the violent video game industry. The video game industry is not paying their hired scum politicians enough apparently.
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She got beaten up by her fella, ella, ella...
Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.
"Sex is bad" would help to reduce the population. "Violence is good" would also help to reduce the population. It's obvious. Politicians are tired of all the whining, sniveling voters who demand so much of their time and energy. So, get those voters to stop having babies, and start killing each other off. It's a win-win situation - for game makers and politicians, anyway. ;)
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Yes, but they couldn't even agree on whether the supreme court should be doing that. Look at Marbury vs. Madison.
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