Sex, Lies, and Videogames: Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association.

ACTIONS & defenses (Law); BROWN v. Entertainment Merchants Association; OBSCENITY (Law); UNITED States. Supreme Court

The article discusses the Brown versus Entertainment Merchants Association court case wherein the Supreme Court struck down California's prohibition law on the sale of violent video games to minors on the grounds that it offended First Amendment protection for the freedom of speech. There is no special First Amendment-imposed scrutiny for regulation of obscene speech. The court has specified the process that the government must follow when it gets around to defining something as obscene.