Brown, et al. v. Entertainment Merchants Assn., et al.
The Court Strikes Down Restrictions on Violent Video Game Sales
Brown, et al., v. Entertainment Merchants Association, et al. was featured in Violent Video Games, Supreme Court Debates (Dec. 2010). The following is excerpted from the summary of the majority opinion written by Justice Scalia, as prepared by the Court Reporter of Decisions: Video games qualify for First Amendment protection. Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium. And “the basic principles of freedom of speech … do not vary” with a new and different communication medium. — Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson (1952). The most basic principle…
