VIDEO SOFTWARE DEALERS ASS'N v. SCHWARZENEGGER

No. C-05-04188RMW.

401 F.Supp.2d 1034 (2005)

VIDEO SOFTWARE DEALERS ASSOCIATION, and Entertainment Software Association, Plaintiffs, v. Arnold SCHWARZENEGGER, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of California; Bill Lockyer, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of California; George Kennedy, in his official capacity as Santa Clara County District Attorney; Richard Doyle, in his official capacity as City Attorney for the City of San Jose; and Ann Miller Ravel, in her official capacity as County Counsel for the County of Santa Clara, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California. San Jose Division.

December 21, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Amy L. Tenney, Ethan D. Dettmer, H. Mark Lyon, Katherine A. Fallow, Paul M. Smith, for Plaintiffs.

Zackery P. Morazzini, Kathryn J. Zoglin, Robert R. Fabela, for Defendants.


ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

[Re Docket No. 5, 27, 28, 41, 48]

WHYTE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs move for a preliminary injunction prohibiting California state and local officials from enforcing a recently passed law, effective January 1, 2006, which requires violent video games to be labeled and prohibits the rental or sale of those games to minors ("Act"). The Act includes a narrow definition of "violent video...

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