ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASS'N v. BLAGOJEVICH

No. 05 C 4265.

404 F.Supp.2d 1051 (2005)

ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION; Video Software Dealers Association; and Illinois Retail Merchants Association, Plaintiffs, v. Rod BLAGOJEVICH, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois; Lisa Madigan, in her official capacity as Attorney General of the State of Illinois; and Richard A. Devine, in his official capacity as State's Attorney of Cook County, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

December 2, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul March Smith, Katherine A. Fallow, Kathleen R. Hartnett, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, David P. Sanders, Wade A. Thompson, Jenner & Block, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs.

Andrew Laurence Dryjanski, Ellecia L. Parsell-Burke, Leeann Richey, Rachel Jana Fleischmann, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Michael J. Kasper, Fletcher Topol O'Brien & Kasper, Laura Cha-Yu Liu, Patrick Edward Deady, Hogan Marren, Ltd., Limo T. Cherian, O'Rourke, McCloskey & Moody, Stephen L. Garcia, Jeffrey S. McCutchan, Louis R. Hegeman, Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., Cook County State's Attorney, Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

KENNELLY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Entertainment Software Association, Video Software Dealers Association, and Illinois Retail Merchants Association sued several state and local officials seeking to enjoin the enforcement of Illinois's Violent Video Games Law and Sexually Explicit Video Games Law. Plaintiffs moved for a preliminary injunction, and the Court ordered a hearing. All parties consented to combine...

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