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March 18th, 2008, Tomasz RychlickiEntm’t Software Ass’n v. Swanson, 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 5634 (8th Cir. 2008).
The State of Minnesota appeals from the district court’s 1 grant of a permanent injunction against the enforcement of section 325I.06 of the Minnesota code, which prohibits minors from purchasing or renting video games bearing a “Mature” or “Adult Only” rating. We affirm.
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On May 31, 2006, the Governor of Minnesota signed the Minnesota Restricted Video Games Act (”the Act”) into law. The Act provides, in relevant part, that:
[a] person under the age of 17 may not knowingly rent or purchase [a video game rated AO or M by the Entertainment Software Rating Board]. A person who violates this subdivision is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $ 25.
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Sędzia Wollman wypowiedział się za cały skład sędziowski następującymi słowami
Whatever our intuitive (dare we say commonsense) feelings regarding the effect that the extreme violence portrayed in the above-described video games may well have upon the psychological well-being of minors, Interactive Video requires us to hold that, having failed to come forth with incontrovertible proof of a causal relationship between the exposure to such violence and subsequent psychological dysfunction, the State has not satisfied its evidentiary burden. The requirement of such a high level of proof may reflect a refined estrangement from reality, but apply it we must.