While not pertaining to the Xbox 360 specifically this piece of news is important to gamers who are tired of defending comically-inaccurate statements lobbied at their favorite titles from a certain Florida attorney; or should we say soon-to-be-former attorney. Joystiq reports that the Florida Supreme Court has finally decided to disbar John Bruce (Jack) Thompson after being found guilty of 27 out of 31 violations of professional misconduct by the Bar association.
Documents filed by the court maintain Thompson, "has demonstrated a patter of conduct to strike out harshly, extensively, repeatedly and willfully to simply try to bring as much difficulty, distraction and anguish to those he considers in opposition to his causes."
In response Thompson has filed an emergency motion against seventy-seven defendants including the Florida Bar association, this despite the first filing posed against him that he may only file a motion in the Florida Supreme court through another attorney in good standing with the Florida Bar acting on his behalf. Lawyer or not, we wouldn't expect Thompson to hangup the gaming hate anytime soon.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Reader Comments (13)
Posted: Sep 25th 2008 11:50PM (Unverified) said
Karma is a real bitch ain't it old Jackass?
Posted: Sep 25th 2008 11:55PM StevenM said
A Bungie teaser trailer and Jack Thompson getting Disbarred??? BEST.DAY.EVER.
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 12:01AM (Unverified) said
good! what's next Jack? movies? books? pokemon?
maybe it's time to retire from the Bullshit Force.
maybe it's time to retire from the Bullshit Force.
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 12:46AM arawk said
It's about time!
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 12:49AM Timerider said
Ha!
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 1:02AM (Unverified) said
Good for him, now he has more time to play video games.
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 2:56AM (Unverified) said
Praise Allah!
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 4:41AM (Unverified) said
This is sad news for two reasons:
1) It's not going to stop him and his "Crusade of Madness"
2) We are losing our nemesis! What would Superman be without Lex Luthor, or Spider-Man without the Green Goblin? Gamers without Jack Thompson??? I am weeping gently...
1) It's not going to stop him and his "Crusade of Madness"
2) We are losing our nemesis! What would Superman be without Lex Luthor, or Spider-Man without the Green Goblin? Gamers without Jack Thompson??? I am weeping gently...
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 8:21AM (Unverified) said
It's about time this POS got what he deserves. After trying to silence some of the greatest games we gamers ever played, old Jack gets silenced as well. Maybe his kids will stop sneaking out late at night to get there videogame fix now
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 11:33AM SirUrza said
Ugh.. another post about him. Stop giving this guy headlines.
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 11:38AM Mal F4cti0n said
Wow. The man is unbelievable. You have been disbarred, which means, you are no longer a lawyer. Just because you don't agree with it, Jackie Boy, doesn't make it not so. The Florida Bar Association has decided that your actions and antics has forced their hand into disbarring you, so you continue along the same path? Wow, just wow!
Hopefully the next step will be to put you in a mental hospital as you insist that you are a lawyer.
Hopefully the next step will be to put you in a mental hospital as you insist that you are a lawyer.
Posted: Sep 26th 2008 12:50PM Kamal said
HA F$%&KING HA!
Posted: Sep 29th 2008 9:16AM DjDATZ said
Finally.
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