The video game law that Califonia passed and which was the object of a lawsuit that reached the United States Supreme Court has been one of the most difficult cases of the term that has just ended, according to one of the judges that ruled on it.Elena Kagan spoke at the McCloskey Speaker Series at the Aspen Institute... |
9 August 2011
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A federal judge has ruled that the domain seizure of the rojadirecta.com domain by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not cause substantial hardship to its legal owner, Spanish firm Puerto 80.Last year, ICE, the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, began seizing domain names believed ... |
5 August 2011
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has invoked Fist Amendment arguments as it tries to get a panel of three judges to throw out a lawsuit that is linked to the way the company has used the likeness and image of football players in its series of NCAA titles.
Sam Keller, who was a quarterback for Arizona State, an... |
17 February 2011
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At the moment, California, a rather cash-strapped state, is spending quite a lot of money to mount a Supreme Court challenge related to a videogame law aiming at restricting sales of violent titles. The law was overturned twice, judged to be unconstitutional, but the State of California seems to be determined to figh... |
1 July 2009
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California has decided to go to the United States Supreme Court regarding a law aimed at limiting the sale of videogames to kids under the age of 18. The law was initially put together and signed in 2005 and has since been struck down repeatedly by courts that decided it was not in agreement with the Constitution of ... |
21 May 2009
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The Supreme Court of the United States has declined an appeal from the Virginia Attorney General, asking for the state's anti-spam legislation, ruled unconstitutional by a local court, to be reinstated. This decision will set notorious spammer Jeremy Jaynes, previously convicted to 9 years for his cybercrimes, f... |
2 April 2009
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Because Robert J. Stevens managed to persuade a court that his dog-fighting business was legitimate, and that shutting it down would mean a breach of his First Amendment rights, now animal crush videos, in which kittens, puppies and other small pets are crushed to satisfy fetishes, are legal. Animal rights activists ... |
14 January 2009
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