[I]Sometime later this year or early next, the Supreme Court will review EMA v. Schwarzenegger, California's violent videogame law. The law, which would have made it illegal to sell games the state found "excessively" violent to minors, was struck down by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court in 2009. A few weeks ago the Entertainment Consumers Association announced that it will be filing a "friend of the court" brief with the high court. GameCulture asked ECA president Hal Halpin about the case, its importance and the role of gamers in what will certainly become a landmark of videogame (and possibly constitutional) law.[/I]

[I][Disclosure: The ECA is the parent company of GameCulture][/I]

[B]Can you tell us about how the ECA decided to file a formal amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of the United States?[/B]

This is an extremely important issue and as a consumer advocacy group, we felt that it was our obligation to unite gamers across the country and give them a collective voice with which to weigh in. In addition to the gamer petition that is already underway, we made the decision to begin work on our amicus brief in order to make our voice as loud as possible going into the U.S. Supreme Court hearing later this year.

[B]How did the decision come about? Where were you when you first found out about the case? You certainly put this effort together in very short order.[/B]

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