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Links: Yet Another Violent Video-Games Law Enjoined
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Friday, July 11 @ 13:11:11 EDT Free Expression
Washington State's law ("House Bill 1009") imposing fines for the sale of certain violent video games to minors has been preliminarily enjoined by a federal judge. District Judge Robert Lasnik found sufficient quetions about the constitutionality of the law to block its enforcement while the case proceeds towards trial. The law would have barred the sale to children of games showing violence directed at "law enforcement officers."

Full story here (Reuters).

 
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