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Article: Video Game Industry Files Suit Today to Overturn Louisiana's Unconstitutional Video Game Law, the Entertainment Software Association Announced.
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- June 16, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- The computer and video game industry today filed suit in the Federal District Court of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to overturn the state's new video game law, the Entertainment Software Association announced. Similar laws have been struck down by six courts in five years, costing taxpayers around the country nearly a million dollars in legal fees.
"We are confident this bill will be found unconstitutional, as have similar statutes in other states," said Doug Lowenstein, president of the ESA, the trade group representing U.S. computer and video game publishers. "As recently as March 31 of this year, The Honorable George Caram Steeh, US District Court, ...