The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has filed for a $1.1 million reimbursement for attorneys’ fees from the State of California for fighting Brown v. EMA.
The ESA’s argument for reimbursement: “California persisted in defending a law that Plaintiffs warned the Legislature was unconstitutional before it was passed; that was previously found to be unconstitutional by the district court and a unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit; and that is similar to at least eight other laws invalidated as unconstitutional prior to the time that California sought certiorari in this case.”
If only California had heeded the ESA’s warning after it publicly posted the $282,794 reimbursement check for legal fees it received from the state, following a lower court’s decision back in 2008.
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