Judge Tells Jack Thompson He's Gotta Play By The Rules
from the law-school-101 dept
Last week, notorious "blame the video game" lawyer Jack Thompson added game site Kotaku to one of his many lawsuits, because of some comments a reader left on their site regarding him. However, that amendment quickly got tossed after a judge noted Thompson didn't follow proper procedure. Thompson tried to add Kotaku and its parent, Gawker Media, to the suit again, and Tuesday the judge smacked him down again, noting that he can't keep adding unrelated claims to a single action. This isn't the first time a Thompson suit has mentioned Kotaku, as the site was one of a gaggle Thompson accused of racketeering in another case, though he quietly later dropped them from the action. If Thompson's highly litigious track record is anything to go by, he'll probably file against Kotaku again, despite the extensive protection that section 230 of the CDA affords site owners for comments left on their site by readers. Also, don't be surprised when Thompson sues the judge, adding him to the laundry list of legal entities Thompson says are conspiring against him.
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jackthompsonisadouche.com
destroyjackthompson.com
jackthompsonisscum.com
killjackthompson.co m
And proceed to populate it with information on how ignorant this man is.
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Ahem.
Jack Thompson is an outrageously vulgar blackguard and a miserable, toe-sucking proof that test tube experiments can go horribly wrong. He is living proof that man can live without a brain, and is so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.
Bring it on, Jack!
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The Lawsuit industries
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Ignore him
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-Do this, and retainer's fees jump even higher. If the lawyer thinks he can win, he can charge whatever he wants because if he does win, you aren't paying. And when you lose? You pay the overinflated fees for both lawyers.
-This would make it more difficult to keep lawyers in Public defender positions, whose fees are mandated by what the city/state will pay. This disadvantages the poor even more in our legal system, which already makes it difficult to win civil cases without big bucks.
The correct response is for all of the people ever accused by JT of 'wrongdoing', 'slander', or 'racketeering' to form a class-action lawsuit against him and/or sue for damages and legal fees.
Or, for some GTA-addled misguided youth to fulfill JT's prophecy and put a hit out on the shmuck.
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Florida Bar must be easy to step over
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he still here
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perhaps a mental evaluation is in order, followed by the revoking of his leagal licence.
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why?
Some people will do anything to have their name in headlines, even if it ruins their career and makes them look like a looney in the process.
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Two Words
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JT
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'Fess up
Give the man back his brownie points and virility.
(he's the little cross-dressing cinderella character, remember?)
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Well
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This guy...
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My god, I could not let that one go. Did you fail all of grade school? Pluralize and read your reread your damn posts people.
PS: You might want to rephrase your post to target extremists rather then just people who are religious. There are extremists from all the groups. In fact, I think you would have a larger pool to pick from going after political targets (per participant they have far more extremists). Hell, PITA is a great one to point at...
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We're not impressed. We're not amused. Go. Away.
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JT
Wow, what a contradiction!!
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Seems to be worth a plug for Denialism. The conspiracy theory is one of the hallmarks of a true crank, as you will read there...
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You guys are MORONS
Attorneys and Lawyers have single handedly bankrupt America. Don't believe me? Do you live in a fucking cave?
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Re: You guys are MORONS
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Just stop, please
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Yay JT
Somewhat ironic, but YAY Jack Thompson!
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He is the perfect opponent
Actually anyone who is sane, competent, intelligent, and actually knows the law wouldn't be advocating any of that anyways.
But anyways. Working in the games industry I used to thank karma that the most famous fearmonger was such a publicly despised and utterly a failure as one.
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