Violent Video Game Law to Supreme Court

The Californian Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that forcing the video games industry in its area of power to label violent video games and by doing so restrict their sale to youngsters is not going to happen.

This has merely spurred Californian Democrat, Senator Leland Yee, to state that he always knew that the law (first passed on California in October of 2005) would end up in the Supreme Court."

Yee feels that, despite the Court of Appeals stating that the law violates, "the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the federal Constitution", and that "there exist less-restrictive means that would further the State's expressed interests," it's still worth spending more money on fighting on.

The appeals judges' statement that "...we hold that the Act's labeling requirement is unconstitutionally compelled speech under the First Amendment because it does not require the disclosure of purely factual information; but compels the carrying of the State's controversial opinion", is however, going to take some heavy legal artillery to contend.

Does anybody know an experienced lawyer who can take the case? One who is actually allowed to practice that is.

All of this is largely bemusing to citizens of the United Kingdom, however, as are rating systems already do restrict the sale of games deemed too violent. All we need to do is to sort out which ratings board we like the best: PEGI or the BBFC.