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California Pays ESA $US1.3m Over Video Game Free Speech Court Battles

Though they raised the ire of anti-SOPA/PIPA activists for their one-time support of the controversial anti-piracy bills, the ESA fought to numerous legal battles in the California court system against legislation that criminalised the sale of M-rated video games.

August 5, 2011
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Supreme Court Justice Opens Up About Her Vote On Video Game Law

Justice Elena Kagan [back row, far right] , whom Stephen Totilo said “did seem to get it” during oral arguments in Brown v EMA, called the case the most difficult of the Court’s most recent term, one in which she felt she was constantly in the wrong no matter her current state of mind.

June 25, 2011
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US Supreme Court Decision Will Tell America How Much Free Speech Protection Video Games Deserve

Monday will be a day that could radically change the status of video games in the United States. We’re expecting the Supreme Court of the United States to finally issue a ruling, based on arguments they (and we) heard back in November, about whether the state of California can make it a crime to sell extremely violent video games to children.

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