Caswell v. Licensing Commission for Brockton

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• finding no First Amendment protection for video games where city denied license for automatic amusement devices; court considered evidence of “Space Invaders”
• “A law is void for vagueness if persons ‘of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application’ ”
• statute construed to allow video game license denial where “the general good, order and welfare of the community so require”
• local licensing authority's broad grant of discretion in issuing licenses may be properly limited by judicial review for abuse of discretion
• denial of license to operate video game arcade did not infringe on potential patrons’ freedom of association
• remand where appellate court could not determine whether the mistaken interpretation by the chairman of the commission was the basis of the decision

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