MI videogame law blocked

Michigan's new law banning the sale of violent videogames to minors is on hold. "A federal judge Wednesday granted video game industry groups' request for a preliminary injunction preventing the state of Michigan from enforcing [the law]," Reuters reports. Judge George Caram Steeh said the state "had failed to show what harm could result from selling games to minors," and there was "obvious harm" to free speech. The law was to take effect December 1. The groups who won the injunction are the Entertainment Software Association, the Video Software Dealers Association, and the Michigan Retailers Association. Similar laws have passed in California and Illinois (also being challenged), and a legislator in Florida is working on one for that state. Reuters adds that "courts already have blocked similar legislation in Washington State, the city of Indianapolis, and St. Louis County in Missouri" for First Amendment reasons.