Jack Thompson Sues Florida Bar

Gamasutra reports that Jack Thompson has sued the Florida Bar Association, for "hector[ing] plaintiff Thompson for 19 months with SLAPP Bar complaints filed by opposing counsel (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participants). Continually, during that time, Thompson and his counsel in these Bar matters have repeatedly asked The Florida Bar to sit down with him and his counsel to try to resolve, once and for all, this dispute, which goes back more than 18 years when other baseless SLAPP Bar complaints were filed, resulting in the payment of money damages to plaintiff Thompson."

He's been doing this for 17 years.

[Anonymous Coward]

He's been doing this since 1989. You just haven't heard of him until recently because before he was attacking video games, he was attacking rap music.

17 years. And he hasn't faded away yet.

Really, some things don't go away when you stop paying attention to them.

Re:Cum granum salis

[belmolis]

That would be cum grano salis. cum takes the ablative case, not the accusative.

Re:Cum granum salis

[meringuoid]

You know, there ought to be some status in law, where a person's opinion is no longer regarded as more meaningful than purely entropic noise. Lets call it cum granum salis. A person having this status could neither be sole plaintiff nor sole witness in a legal case.

Not quite the same thing, but there's a concept of the 'vexatious litigant' [wikipedia.org] in some places. They're forbidden to sue anybody, because they've abused the courts repeatedly and egregiously. The British courts' killfile is here [hmcourts-service.gov.uk], and I notice from the wikipedia link that the notorious Christian extremist Fred Phelps is listed as a vexatious litigant in the US.

fuckjackthompson.com

[EvilCabbage]

... I should really do something with that domain I registered :)