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Judge blocks California game law
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Posted by Donster on: 2005-12-23 14:48:44 844
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Schwarzenegger-signed age-restriction measure slapped with injunction; ESA and IEMA elated.
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
In November, a judge ruled a Michigan law banning the sale of mature-rated games to minors as unconstitutional, preventing it from going into effect. Three weeks ago, a similar fate befell an Illinois measure that would have placed similar restrictions on games.
Late yesterday, a California judge issued a ruling that prevented that state's own game-restriction law from going into effect. In the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Ronald Whyte slapped a preliminary injunction on a law signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself the star of several games, last month.
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