Legal Opinion
American Amusement MacHine Association v. Teri Kendrick
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 23, 2001No. 00-3643PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The manufacturers of video games and their trade association seek to enjoin, as a violation of freedom of expression, the enforcement of an Indianapolis ordinance that seeks to limit the access of minors to video games that depict violence. Denial of a preliminary injunction has precipitated this appeal.
The ordinance defines the term “harmful to minors” to mean “an amusement machine that predominantly appeals to minors’ morbid interest in violence or minors’ prurient interest in sex, is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with…
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