ALL - Oklahoma Videogame Bill Stopped

PlayStation News by Lyndon M STAFF 731 days ago

In a ruling issued October 11, 2006, Judge Robin J. Cauthron, US District Judge, Western District of Oklahoma, handed down a preliminary injunction halting the implementation of Oklahoma´s law which prohibits the sale of video games depicting ¨inappropriate¨ violence to minors. In the decision, the Court stated that plaintiffs presented strong arguments that the Act contains unconstitutional content-based restrictions and that the Act´s language is unconstitutionally vague.

¨This marks the ninth Court decision in the past five years to enjoin restrictions on video games,¨ said Doug Lowenstein, president of the ESA, the trade group representing U.S. computer and video game publishers. ¨We´re grateful for the preliminary injunction and look forward to prevailing in the effort to permanently strike down the law.¨

Judge Robin J. Cauthron, US District Judge, Western District of Oklahoma also stated, ¨It was apparent that Plaintiffs are substantially likely to prevail in this case even if the Act is subjected to a lower level of scrutiny.¨

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