Legal Opinion
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 27, 2011No. 08-1448PublishedCited by 576 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
We consider whether a California law imposing restrictions on violent video games comports with the First Amendment.
*789California Assembly Bill 1179 (2005), Cal. Civ. Code Ann. §§ 1746-1746.5 (West 2009) (Act), prohibits the sale or rental of “violent video games” to minors, and requires their packaging to be labeled “18.” The Act covers games “in which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being, if those acts are depicted” in a manner that “[a] reasonable person, considering the game as a whole, would find…
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