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Yee's California Game Law Up For Appeal
Wednesday sees the return of our old friend Leland Yee as he and California Governor T-101 attempt once again to get their violent video game law passed, this time in the Federal Court of Appeals. The law, which was shot down last year in federal court for being unconstitutional, sought to prevent children from purchasing games that contained "especially heinous, cruel or depraved" violence, putting in place $1,000 fines for retailers who sold such titles to minors. In preparation for this Wednesday's appeal, Senator Yee practiced his spiel.
"This is the same technology the armed forces use to help soldiers kill the enemy," said state Sen. Leland Yee, the San Francisco Democrat who wrote the legislation. "All we're saying is, 'Don't sell it to kids.' "
I predict this appeal will get them absolutely nowhere, though I suppose we can't fault them for using taxpayers' money to check back every now and then, just in case the Constitution changed while we weren't looking.
California violent-video-game law faces showdown in federal appeals court [Mercury News via Gamasutra]
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jack thompson
Lawyer's Fate Pushed Back To 2008
Damn these game delays! It's always the one you're most interested in, isn't it? They never would have delayed Ninjabread Man, yet here we are with another big title pushed back to Spring 2008. While development on the JT Bar Trial is expected to wrap today, final verdict producer Judge Dava Tunis has indicated that testing and review of the extensive court record will most likely keep the results out of gamers' hands until Q1 2008. With games like Spore slated for the same release window, one has to wonder if the title will garner any notice at all when it finally hits. The verdict continues to garner harsh opposition from Florida lawyer Jackie T, who has filed multiple motions to have the game canceled altogether, though so far his track record of never hindering a game's release is intact. I guess we'll just have to find something else to play over the Christmas holiday. *sniffs*
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Man Sues Microsoft For Halo 3 Lockups
The first words in the title of this article might as well be a synonym for the word failure, but San Diego's Randy Nunez is going to go ahead and give it the old college try anyhow, filing suit against the giant corporation in the Southern California U.S. district court. Randy purchased a copy of Halo 3 from GameStop in mid-October, which was apparently plaguing the system with lock-ups, freezes, and crashes as he tried to play. Did he try a different copy of the game? Return the defective one to GameStop for a replacement? The source story doesn't say. It just leaps from crashing Xbox 360 to filing suit against Microsoft for being in violation of consumer protection laws. Nunez is also after Bungie as well, and is asking the court grant class action status to the suit, allowing countless other hopeless, money-hungry saps to get in on a piece of the 'being eaten alive by Microsoft's lawyers' pie. Trust me Randy. Just return the game for store credit and sit down quietly. You don't want to go up against MS. That way lies madness.
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JT On Trial For Crimes Against Inanity
I know I generally don't like writing about our good friend JT Lawyerman if I can avoid it, but then he generally isn't in the midst of an ethics trial in Florida court that could result in his disbarment. Yesterday marked the start of the trial we knew was coming eventually, as the Florida Bar explores several complaints regarding JT's professional conduct in his dealings with the video game industry. The anti-violent gaming crusader was metaphorically drug kicking and screaming to court, with a failed bid to block the trial last week followed by an offer of 3 months voluntary suspension filed over the weekend, which fell on deaf ears. Not so deaf now, as the Florida bar informed GamePolitics that the entire week has been set aside to hear the case, with the referee Judge Tunis having until the 21st of December to rule. It may look grim, but don't count JT out yet. All he has to do is win a court case and he...yeah, he's pretty much doomed here.
Jack Thompson Faces Trial Before the Florida Bar Today [GamePolitics.com]
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