Western Washington Summary Judgment
In July 2004, Judge Robert Lasnik of the U.S. District Court in Seattle granted summary judgment to overturn Washington state HB1009, which sought to ban the sale of certain video games to minors. Judge Lasnik's ruling determined that the Washington state statute was clearly unconstitutional.
In his ruling, Judge Lasnik rejected the state's argument that video games should be regulated under obscenity law, and declined the state's invitation to expand the narrowly defined obscenity exception to include portrayals of violence.
After striking the Washington law as unconstitutional, Judge Lasnik ordered the State of Washington to pay the video game industry $344,000 to cover their attorney's fees in this case.
View a full copy of the Western Washington Summary Judgment on Video Games.
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