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California Must Pay $950,000 to ESA Over Unconstitutional Law
Fri Jan 27, 2012 at 11:30 AM ETTags: Leland Yee, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ESA, Legal Cases (all tags)
Another attempt to criminalize sales of Mature rated games went down in flames and cost California dearly.
The ESA has been catching a lot of flak over the whole SOPA/PIPA thing, but they really do have the game industry's back in many other case. One such example is in a law that California's Leland Yee and Arnold Schwarzenegger were trying to pass. Said law would have made it a crime to sell Mature rated games to minors.
The ESA stepped in quickly and took California to court to settle the issue. After quite a bit of time in the court system, the ESA won out and the law was declared unconstitutional. As a result, the state of California has to shell out $950,000 to the ESA. That's a total of $1,230,000 they've collected from California in the last few years.
"Senator Yee and Governor Schwarzenegger wasted more than $1 million in taxpayer funds at a time when Californians could ill afford it," says ESA president Michael D. Gallagher.
Source: GameSpot
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