Judge Tells Jack Thompson He's Gotta Play By The Rules

from the law-school-101 dept

Thu, May 3rd 2007 8:31am — Carlo Longino

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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Anonymous Coward, 3 May 2007 @ 9:17am

Jack Thompson just needs to cease to exist. Or fight a cause that is worth fighting. The guy is a joke. It is hard to make other lawyers look good, but he does it. He makes all the other lawyers look like saints.

/rant
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doh, 3 May 2007 @ 9:32am

Someone should register a domain along the lines of;
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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Joel Coehoorn, 3 May 2007 @ 9:39am

Careful you guys... you'll get techdirt sued :rolls eyes:
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ansientwun, 3 May 2007 @ 9:40am

The Lawsuit industries
All we really need to do is make jerks like this start paying defendants costs when they loose. In todays court system, there's no downside to sticking it to anyone you want to.
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John Radke, 3 May 2007 @ 9:51am

Ignore him
What we need to do is stop caring about Jack Thompson so much. I know there's a delicious schadenfreude we all experience when a bad guy gets what's coming to him, but widespread infamy can only help his cause. He's a loser, a hack, and a terrible lawyer, and everybody knows it and therefore should be ignored rather than even discussed.
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Shteevie, 3 May 2007 @ 9:54am

"All we really need to do is make jerks like this start paying defendants costs when they loose. In todays court system, there's no downside to sticking it to anyone you want to."

-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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Beefcake, 3 May 2007 @ 9:59am

Florida Bar must be easy to step over
Why hasn't JT been disbarred? Isn't continuous, habitual, and knowing abuse of the legal system grounds?
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BillGod, 3 May 2007 @ 10:04am

he still here
I heard a judge in Texas was trying to disbar him and he was moving to canada? I swear I read that somewhere.
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Anonymous Coward, 3 May 2007 @ 10:05am

"conspiring against him"

perhaps a mental evaluation is in order, followed by the revoking of his leagal licence.
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dav3, 3 May 2007 @ 10:08am

why?
Why is this nutcase allowed to continue wasting our tax dollars with his obviously personal vendetta that is taking the courts time and abusing the legal system of the people?

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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dav3, 3 May 2007 @ 10:13am

Two Words
Joke Thompson
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SPR, 3 May 2007 @ 10:23am

JT
JT has picked video games as his forte' just as John Edwards picked natural childbirth as the cause of "cerebral palsy" as his forte' and made millions off of that in North Carolina.
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Disgusted, 3 May 2007 @ 10:58am

Jake Thompson is a fag and takes it in the ass....I think he should be drafted into Iraq and given the job to personally diffuse all IED's in person with no protective suit. Ever seen his picture, he looks like a fudge packer!!!!
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Disgusted, 3 May 2007 @ 10:59am

Where is dophus when you need him?
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JackedbytheMan, 3 May 2007 @ 11:03am

'Fess up
One of you people out there punked Jack Thompson's online RPG alter ego, and it has really chapped his tender ass.

Give the man back his brownie points and virility.

(he's the little cross-dressing cinderella character, remember?)
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Anonymous Coward, 3 May 2007 @ 11:26am

Well
Didn't want to pass up the opportunity to make fun of Jacked Johnson.... What a tool, plz sue tech dirt so we can all make fun of you some more. P.S. The world hates you.
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Angry Rivethead, 3 May 2007 @ 11:36am

This guy...
Is the lawyer equivalent to that "God Hates Fags" lady that shows up at funerals.
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wtf, 3 May 2007 @ 12:03pm

I bet million this guy has religion background.. Usually are religion people want relegate shit because god said so.. JT fuck you and I will let my my son play some GTA just piss you off.
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SPR, 3 May 2007 @ 12:11pm

JT
A Republican Conservative Christian Lawyer!!
Wow, what a contradiction!!
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Anonymous Coward, 3 May 2007 @ 12:16pm

Re: by wtf
"I bet million this guy has religion background.. Usually are religion people want relegate shit because god said so.. JT fuck you and I will let my my son play some GTA just piss you off."

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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wtf, 3 May 2007 @ 12:22pm

Re: Re: by wtf
yawn...
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Charles Griswold, 3 May 2007 @ 1:11pm

Re:
Careful you guys... you'll get techdirt sued :rolls eyes:

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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Pseudonym, 3 May 2007 @ 5:24pm

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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ya right, 3 May 2007 @ 10:15pm

You guys are MORONS
The problem isn't Jack Thompson at all. Our legal system, with the unchecked fees, loop holes and bullshit is the problem. Until the government makes it impossible for Civil Suits, we will always be at the mercy of the rule makers which are the attorneys and lawyers in America.

Attorneys and Lawyers have single handedly bankrupt America. Don't believe me? Do you live in a fucking cave?
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haha, 3 May 2007 @ 10:16pm

Re: Re: by wtf
I bet you're right. And i bet he is a scum fucking JEW as well.
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Charles Griswold, 4 May 2007 @ 2:07am

Re: Re: Re: by wtf
I bet you're right. And i bet he is a scum f***ing JEW as well.

We're not impressed. We're not amused. Go. Away.
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Wolfger, 4 May 2007 @ 7:35am

Just stop, please
It's not nice to make fun of the mentally challenged. Jack's retardation should not be used for our amusement. It's just not right. Poor boy needs some help, that's all.
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thebacchant, 4 May 2007 @ 7:09pm

Yay JT
JT is like an antibody training our system to fend off others like him. At least we can hope. Yada yada.

Somewhat ironic, but YAY Jack Thompson!
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Osama, 5 May 2007 @ 6:32am

Re: You guys are MORONS
Yes I do ;-)
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johnnyprozac, 6 May 2007 @ 6:04pm

He is the perfect opponent
THank god for Jack THompson. If we actually had someone competent, sane , intelligent , and actually able to communicate advocating the things that Jack THompson does, then there would be some fear.

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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