Now your five year old can buy GTA

The Ninth Circuit has enjoined California's law banning the sale of video games to minors. [ruling] . Maybe I'm just cynical, but arguably this is a good outcome for the authors of the law. After all, if it's upheld, it becomes a political non-issue, since there's not a lot of constituency for allowing children to buy violent video games. On the other hand, if it's struck down they get to run against the activist courts, pass revised versions of the law which will get struck down, etc. (Cf. the communications decency act, flag burning, etc.)