United States Seventh Circuit

Plaintiffs are entitled to a preliminary injunction enjoining the enforcement of municipal ordinance limiting the access of minors to video games that depict violence, where the harm to plaintiffs is greater than the purely conjectural benefits of the ordinance to citizens.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/01/2000
• Decided 03/23/2001
• Published 03/23/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, DIANE P. WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David L. Kelleher (argued), Elliott I. Portnoy, Timothy F. Brown, Evan S. Stolove, on the brief, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, DC, Jackie M. Bennett, Jr., Wayne C. Turner, John F. McCauley, McTurnan & Turner, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Paul M. Smith, Jenner & Block, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Interactive Digital Software Assn., John J. Wheeler, Charlottesville, VA, for Amicus Curiae Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression., Robert Corn-Revere, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC, Cindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation., Burton Joseph, Joseph, Lichtenstein & Levinson, Chicago, IL, David Greene, First Amendment Project, Oakland, CA, Marjorie Heins, National Coalition Against Censorship, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Scholars & Authors in the Field of Media & Communications., Michael A. Bamberger, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression.


• For Appellees:
  
• A. Scott Chinn, Office of the Corporation Counsel, City Counsel Legal Division, Indianapolis, IN, Matthew R. Gutwein (argued), Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.