· Florida lawyer Jack Thompson, who is completely crazy somewhat colorful, has surfaced in these pages before. But he has never been an ATL Lawyer of the Day. With this post, we officially bestow ...
· Letter to US Attorney R. Alexander Acosta, quoted in Ben Kuchera (2008-04-28). "GTA IV sex video gives Thompson, other critics fresh ammo". Ars Technica. Retrieved on 2014-11-18. Quotes about Jack Thompson . I'm only interested in virile men. That's why I'm not attracted to you. Janet Reno, quoted on "The Virtue Vigilante", Nightline, 2006-12-13
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· The 42-page federal suit Thompson filed last week contends that defendants, including the supreme court and Florida bar, have engaged in “illegal activity, some of which is criminal in nature ...
Thompson, who is known for his advocacy against violent video games and pornography, reportedly has 30 days to appeal, and based on his past history is likely to do so. Meanwhile, he has filed (PDF) to seek an emergency stay of the state supreme court ruling in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida.
Updated: Going beyond previous sanctions imposed on a controversial Florida lawyer, the state supreme court today has permanently disbarred Jack Thompson in agreement with a referee’s report (PDF) issued in July that said Thompson repeatedly attempted to harm his opponents’ reputations “with utter disregard to the administration of justice and complete indifference to the consequences his conduct would have on their lives, law firms, judicial careers, clients, families and reputations.”
The blog post says Thompson also has responded to the disbarment by issuing a press release.
He says he was introduced to the lyrics of 2 Live Crew by his best friend, Mike Thompson (no relation), a conservative talk-show host at Miami radio station WNWS.
Advertisement. Chuck Throckmorton, a 35-year-old trademark lawyer who has known Thompson for 10 years, insists his friend is misunderstood. “People around here who only read about Jack in the papers think he must be like the Church Lady on ‘Saturday Night Live’ or something,” Throckmorton says. “But Jack is no prude.
Michael Disney, the station’s vice president and general manager, filed a complaint against Thompson the following year with the Florida Bar Assn. Thompson was accused of harassing WIOD-AM advertisers and Rogers. Under a settlement reached in November, 1989, Thompson was barred from talking about or coming within 500 yards of the deejay.
Thompson seems so absorbed in his mission that he can break away repeatedly from a reporter’s question to answer as many as a dozen phone calls in an hour from other reporters, and then pick up the conversation exactly where he left off.
He’s known, in certain circles, for his personal crusade to bring down the violent video game world. There’s been a lot written about Thompson’s rise to, and fall from, infamy, but we decided to talk to the man himself. Most pronounced in his history ...
Ignoring that plenty of games already had easter eggs sets in their offices (including Postal and Doom II ), a few different developers released titles that met this requirement, only to have Thompson declare that the entire statement was a satire and he would be making no such donations. The guys from Penny Arcade went ahead and made a charitable $10k donation with the memo line: “For Jack Thompson Because Jack Thompson Won’t”. This led Thompson to pursue legal action against them, and it got only messier from there.