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California To Pay ESA $950K In Court Fees
The Entertainment Software Association today announced it would receive $950,000 from the state of California to pay for legal fees from last year's Supreme Court case over violent video games.
The ESA, a trade group that represents video game publishers in the U.S., was the lead respondent in the Brown v. EMA court case that would have banned the sales of violent video games to minors. The ESA said it would donate a portion of the proceeds to develop after-school educational programs for underserved communities in Oakland and Sacramento.
“Senator Yee and Governor Schwarzenegger wasted more than $1 million in taxpayer funds at a time when Californians could ill afford it,” said Michael D. Gallagher, president and CEO of ESA in a statement. “However we feel strongly that some of these funds should be used to improve services for California’s youth.”
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