Louisiana videogame law on hold

A federal judge in Baton Rouge “granted a temporary stay on a new Louisiana law signed last week that would outlaw the sale of violent video games to children under 18,” eCommerceTimes reports. The videogame industry’s trade association and the Entertainment Merchants Association both challenged the law, which “calls for a fine of $2,000 or one-year prison term - or both - for violators.” The law’s opponents told the court thatsimilar laws had been struck down in six other jurisdictions over the past five years on constitutional (free-speech) grounds.