Supreme Court strikes down violent video games ban
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] 7-2 in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that a California ban on the sale of violent video games to minors violates the First Amendment [text]. California Civil Code sections 1746-1746.5 [text] sought to prohibit the sale of violent video games to minors where a reasonable person would find that the violent content appeals to a deviant or morbid interest of minors, is patently…