A big victory at the Supreme Court isn?t priceless, after all. It costs somewhere north of $1,144,602.64.
That?s what the video game industry spent to convince the court that California?s law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors violated the First Amendment. And it asked the court Monday to make the state pay the legal cost of the case, most of which went to the law firm of Jenner & Block.
Two industry trade groups ? the Entertainment Merchants Association and Entertainment Software Association ? relied on civil rights laws in asking for the fees. Federal law allows the prevailing parties in such cases to collect their costs from the losing side.
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