The U.S. Supreme Court is taking on the constitutionality of a proposed California law to ban the sale of video games to minors. The same Supreme Court where Chief Justice John Roberts asked the difference between email and a pager, and where Justice Antonin Scalia asked if “spicy little” texts could be printed out and sent in hard copy to buddies.

The gaming industry already polices the sale of mature video games via the ratings of the non-profit Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), which also levees fines on stores that are caught breaking the rules. That wasn’t enough for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The case to legalize a stricter law (Schwarzenegger, Gov. of CA v. Entertainment Merchants Association, argument 08-1448) will be scheduled for the highest court’s next session, which begins in October.

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