The Entertainment Software Association would like a few things covered now that the pesky Supreme Court business is over

The Entertainment Software Association announced yesterday that they’d like to get reimbursed (to the tune of $1.1 million) for the attorneys’ fees incurred as a result of fighting the now permanently unconstitutional law regulating game sales.

Taking a case through everything it needs to make it to the Supreme Court is pretty costly, turns out!

“We look forward to moving forward and working together to raise awareness about the valuable tools and information available to parents,” said Michael D. Gallagher, CEO of the ESA. “From the start of this misguided legislation, then-Governor Schwarzenegger and specific California legislators knew that their efforts to censor and restrict expression were, as court after court ruled, unconstitutional and thus a waste of taxpayers’ money, government time, and state resources.”

In its motion, the ESA said that “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.”

Don’t pay attention to the lower courts, and it might come back to bite you. Or, in this case, California’s taxpayers. Ouch.