US Law on Bannng Games Ruled Illegal

Obviously bored with saving guilty US celebrities from going to jail the legal eagles in the States have now turned on each other. A federal judge has now ruled that a recent law set up in Louisiana to ban the sale of "violent" videogames to minors is indeed itself illegal. Top hilarity.

Judge James Brady found the efforts unconvincing. In issuing a temporary injunction against the law, the judge wrote that "the evidence that was submitted to the legislature in connection with the bill that became the statute is sparse and could hardly be called in any sense reliable." Judge Brady also called the studies' connections between video game and real-world violence "tenuous and speculative."

Thompson blamed the Louisiana Attorney General's office for the ruling, telling Ars that its effort to defend the law was "at best incompetent and at worst compromised."

Yup good call Jack, call the Attorney General's office incompetent, that'll get them on your side.

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