Judge Bans Thompson from LA Videogame Case 81
BluePariah writes "The ever-vigilant folks at Game Politics are reporting that Federal District Court Judge James Brady has refused Jack Thompson's request to file an amicus curiae brief in the lawsuit over Louisiana's videogame law." From the article: "Thompson, of course, was heavily involved in the Louisiana statute, helping Rep. Roy Burrell (D) draft the underlying legislation, HB 1381. The anti-game attorney claimed in his request to the court that Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, a named defendant in the case, approved of Thompson's amicus motion. As previously reported here on GamePolitics, Thompson's request to file an amicus brief - if granted - would have permitted the long-time video game industry nemesis to provide information to the court even though he is not a party to the lawsuit."
lol pwned (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:lol pwned (Score:1, Funny)
I'm gonna go play my extremely violent tetris now, k?
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Ahem (Score:4, Funny)
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Oh, you just mean they said no to his motion?
Oh well. One could have hoped...
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One-Page Judgment? (Score:4, Informative)
"IT IS ORDERED that the motion for leave to file an amicus curie brief be and is hereby DENIED."
Did anyone else... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:One-Page Judgment? (Score:1)
Jack gives lawyers a bad name (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Jack gives lawyers a bad name (Score:3, Funny)
"I can't think of any rational reason" (Score:5, Insightful)
And yet, he did it. That pretty much sums up Mr. Thompson.
Re:Jack gives lawyers a bad name (Score:2)
And yet, even a great many lawyers think Thompson is a dillhole.
You don't get much worse than that.
Jack Thompson is not our friend (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Jack Thompson is not our friend (Score:4, Interesting)
Doesn't seem to know Jack about law either. He signed the brief as a, get this, Defendant, and Co-Counsel. So either he's too incompetent to practice law, or he fraudulently misrepresents himself on legal briefs. But his practice is in Florida, where it seems it's virtually impossible to get disbarred.
Why is he still a lawyer? (Score:3, Insightful)
Agreed. Although IANAL, given what I have seen of his communications which get posted online from time to time I can't believe that there hasn't been enough evidence yet to get him disbarred. Whenever his logic is torn asunder by an opponent he is quick to revert to little more than "OMG STFU or I'll sue you!" He relies on his position as a lawyer to bully or intimidate others into either agreeing with him or keepin
Re:Why is he still a lawyer? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, considering how many lawyers there are around I can only assume shooting them must be illegal:/
Re:Why is he still a lawyer? (Score:5, Funny)
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More to the point... (Score:2)
Re:Why is he still a lawyer? (Score:3, Funny)
Mal-2
Re:Why is he still a lawyer? (Score:1)
Re:Why is he still a lawyer? (Score:1)
They tried to disbar him once, and he sued them for megabucks. They setled for 20k.
He is currently under investigation, but he filed another suit against the Florida Bar, in federal court. Although IIR, he dropped it in order to pursue a state one.
He's a fucking asshole out to make a buck and become famous off of other people's misery.
Re:Jack Thompson is not our friend (Score:2)
Didn't know the Judge was a fragger... (Score:1)
Re:Didn't know the Judge was a fragger... (Score:3, Funny)
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one page? (Score:2)
GG judge!
IANAL.. (Score:2)
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What's Latin for "Christ almighty, it was a f*cking joke" ?
Re:IANAL.. (Score:2)
Please don't get him started on that.
But c'mon, I'll be damned if "fornicatione ita" doesn't sound damned cool in an Italian accent. I'll have to go up to North Beach and start shouting that... If I make it back in one piece, I'll let you know how it went.
Why is Jack even wasting LA state resources (Score:3, Interesting)
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The Tale of Old Jackie (Score:5, Insightful)
Old Jackie is dumb and insane. He is a hateful little wretch of a man doing everything he can to reconcile his crumbling world view. This is not a matter of republican or democrat, liberal or conservative. Jackie is a whore and a junkie of the first order and he'll side with anyone who will get him a taste. He comes up with dubious data from studies conducted by his cronies that supposedly expose the dangerous and seedy underbelly of the vicious peddlers in the video game market. Yet his attacks are vapor all over and he knows it. There is an old saying amongst the legal crowd:
If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the facts are not on your side, pound the table
This is how Old Jackie rolls. It will bite him in the end, though, when people remember more about his woefully disillusioned ramblings then they do about his countless attempts to ban video games state by state. He has only been allowed to get this far because gamers are a notoriously lazy bunch, but that will only last so long. Eventually, as they say in the gamer crowd, Old Jackie will get omgwtfpwned and go crawling back to whatever rat-infested Florida swamp that he came out of.
Re:The Tale of Old Jackie (Score:3, Insightful)
The sooner you realize that this is how the majority of people on this ol' mudball operate, the sooner you can expect life to get a little easier.
Most people cling to their illusions like they're the only thing keeping them from drowning, because it's easier than thinking, and most people don't seem to want to that. I can only assume that they've had it knocked out of them by the experience of public sch
Publicity (Score:2)
And yet most of us know who he is. Assumedly, if somebody wanted to go sue "BloodyExposiveGames.com" they might pick up on his name from the media and pay him to be their lawyer.
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Unfortunately, that would just make him (and I hate to use this term when referencing him) a martyr. He speaks out against things people enjoy, and if someone were to "take care of him", so to speak, then his nonsensical ramblings would end up carrying more weight. More people would hear about him because of it, and they would get the idea in their head that he was right because some
Re:The Tale of Old Jackie (Score:2)
His college roommates wouldn't let him play pong with them
His mother was raped by a madman wielding a thrustmaster
If he can't pass Super Mario, no one else can either
Perhaps the world will never know why the man is crazy...
Heh. (Score:2)
If the facts are not on your side, pound the table
And if the table is not on your side, pound sand [urbandictionary.com]
Ashamed... (Score:1)
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I Call Shenanigans! (Score:1)
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Neither libel, fraud, nor vexatious litigation are protected by the first amendment. Thompson's existence revolves around all three.
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And I betI know what his reaction will be (Score:3, Interesting)
Anyone want to take me up on this bet?
Re:And I betI know what his reaction will be (Score:2)
Jack is a common nickname for John.
Re:And I betI know what his reaction will be (Score:2)
And Charles <---> Chuck.
You got it.
His Brief (Score:1)
Can he be stopped (Score:1)
Old Man Withers (Score:1)
Damned meddling kids.