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The ECA has started up a petition that will be delivered to the Supreme Court along with their amicus brief in EMA v. Schwarzenegger. It's important that people sign the petition, even though the Court is likely to rule in our favor anyway, because this is a rare opportunity for our voices to be put into the public record for the courts. There are two checkboxes under the petition that you probably...


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In our ongoing coverage at Negative Gamer, I have some legal analysis of the situation surrounding the seizure of several computers from Jason Chen, a blogger at Gizmodo. Check the post out here.


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The Supreme Court of the United States has granted the petition for a writ of certiorari on Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) v. Schwarzenegger. GamePolitics editor Pete Gallagher and I have ongoing coverage of the event, and reactions from industry players, as it unfolds. (Note: if you get 404 errors, just increment the number of the update by 1, and that should work).


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In light of the recent decision in U.S. v. Stevens, GamePolitics has done a followup article with Gameslaw discussing the implications of Stevens on the Court's acceptance (or denial) of certiorari in EMA v. Schwarzenegger, the long-running Ninth Circuit case on video game violence. Catch the article here.


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The SCOTUS has made their ruling in U.S. v. Stevens, a controversial case about crush videos that has broad implications for violent games legislation. Check out our continuing coverage at Gamepolitics! Also, I should point out that my Fantasy SCOTUS team totally called this one, right down to the breakdown.


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For those of you following the interesting drama between Activision (one of the industry's largest publishers) and former heads of Activision owned studio Infinity Ward, Jason West and Vince Zampella, there has been a new development. Activision has filed a cross-claim against West and Zampella which provides us with all sorts of insights into the relationship between the two companies, the millions...


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I've been getting a lot of questions about what's going on with Stratics. The short answer is, Stratics is under new management, and undergoing a major site overhaul. Soon there will be no more ugly white and blue, and the focus will be much more oriented on games people ACTUALLY play. We'll probably be looking for new writers so if you're interested, please get in touch with me. As for my position...


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Just an update, I'll be attending both GDC and PAX East this month. If you are a developer and have a media request please email me ASAP - I'm just about completely booked for GDC and while I have more leeway at PAX, I'm also going to be doing some live podcasting that will need to be scheduled around. If you want to meet up for drinks, you can either email me or send a tweet to @SWATJester on twitter...


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