$1 Million of Proposed Appropriation Are Court-Ordered Fees to Winner in Violent Video Game Litigation.
As reported in a January 31, 2012 post in The Sacramento Bee, the California State Assembly has approved Senate Bill 730, which in turn proposes payment of $13 million in settlements and court-ordered attorney’s fees in legal disputes by the State of California.
Included in this amount was $1 million in court-ordered fees in Entertainment Merchant Association’s successful challenge of a California law banning sale of violent video games to minors–a dispute going all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, who sided with the Association.
Now, the bill will proceed to the State Assembly and, if passed, then goes to Governor Jerry Brown for signature, with Governor Brown ironically defending the California ban when he was Attorney General (although that it what AG’s typically do).