MELISSA BLOCK, Host: This is All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg has more on that decision.</s>NINA TOTENBERG: Here's James Steyer of Common Sense Media.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, Host: I think we definitely hit the industry over the head with a 2X4. Over the five or six years, the industry has become far more accountable and much more careful about selling those kind of games to minors.</s>NINA TOTENBERG: As Cardozo law professor Marci Hamilton observes, the court's majority opinion in the case took up just 18 pages.</s>P: The majority decision reads as though this was the easiest case in the world to decide on straightforward free speech principles.</s>NINA TOTENBERG: Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
The Supreme Court has struck down a California law that bans the sale and rental of violent video games to children. In a 7-2 vote, the justices ruled that the law was unconstitutional and that it violated the free speech rights of children.