Violent Video Games Go (Back) To Court
November 1st, 2008 by Joshua Kagan
California Civil Code § 1746,1 a law enacted in 2005, criminalized the sale or rental of certain violent video games to minors. The law didn’t last long. A federal court declared it unconstitutional last year2 and it wasn’t hard to see why.
As a content-based regulation, § 1746 requires a strict scrutiny analysis,3 which means that such a [...]