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Mike L
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 343 Location: Minneapolis
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:49 am Post subject: D&D Gangsta, Gangsta |
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In a case that has been winding its way through the courts for a while now, a Wisconsin prison banned inmates from playing Dungeons & Dragons, using the justification that 'one player is denoted the Dungeon Master... [who] is tasked with giving directions to other players... [which] mimics the organization of a gang.' The prison also cited some sparse evidence that a handful of non-inmate D&D players once committed some crimes that allegedly were related to their D&D playing. On Monday the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the regulation against challenges from inmates. The court appeared skeptical of the ban, sarcastically referring to it as the 'war on D&D,' but upheld it nonetheless as having a 'rational basis.' Law professor Ilya Somin suggests that the court may have had no choice, given how deferential rational-basis review usually is.
http://volokh.com/2010/01/25/7th-circuit-upholds-prison-rule-forbidding-inmates-to-play-dungeons-and-dragons/ |
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SteveB Site Admin
Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 1352 Location: Melrose, Minn.
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Mike, you do find some interesting things. _________________ Scoutmaster
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