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Judge Bans Thompson from LA Videogame Case
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."
Good to see the rest of the world recognizing his abject insanity.
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Let me be the first to say... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... It's about time judges started giving Jack Thompson the respect he deserves.
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More like one-sentence judgment. Wow:
"IT IS ORDERED that the motion for leave to file an amicus curie brief be and is hereby DENIED."
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Wow, he tried to list himself as co-defendent and co-counsel on the amicus brief. I can't think of any rational reason to list yourself as either when you're neither. It makes me suspect he was trying to create evidence that he could later use to show that he had been personally sued by the video game industry, and then complain about how they hound him relentlessly for his pursuit of American Justice. Of course, the co-counsel part is obviously there to pad his resume.
Fanatically anti-fanatical
For those of us (like me) who aren't lawyers, an Amicus curae is a "friend of the court". In other words, he testifies to the court about what he knows about an issue. Apparently the courts have decided that he doesn't know Jack.
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The Judge ganked his ass with a HS! About time someone pwned him. What a lamer, Thompson, T4UTD.
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Barely even one page... Jack got owned in one sentenced.
GG judge!
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To any lawyers on here...what's the appropriate impressive-sounding legal Latin term for "FUCK yeah?"
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in case he didn't notice, violent video games really aren't Louisiana's #1 priority right now....
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"I can't think of any rational reason"
And yet, he did it. That pretty much sums up Mr. Thompson.
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.
Did anyone else hear the UT 2k4 announcer's voice when they read "DENIED"? I wonder if amicus curiae is latin for Redeemer Missile...
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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 keeping quiet. If nothing else don't state bar associations have rules regarding general conduct under which they could remove his right to practice?
I also wonder about his motivations. His stance against video games verges on psychotic at times. What happened Jack? Were you molested by an Atari as a child? Never got that ColecoVision you so desperately wanted for Christmas and so are taking your vengence out on all the other kids? Or is he planning on running for senator under the "I saved every child in the world from the video game horror" banner? It's like he lives and breathes destroying an entire industry, he won't be happy until we're playing pong with anti-alias blurred paddle graphics because the original versions too closely resemble a phallus. :P
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...that my last name is the same as his. Between him and former senator Fred "Law & Order" Thompson, I may have to change it to something less controversial...like "Hussein" or "Qaddafi".
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Doesn't he have the 1st amendment right to say anything he wants ... including those stupid things that will only make us laugh at him and hate him more?
I haven't read the article or read any comment from Jack yet, but I'll bet I can guess his spin on this will be something along the lines of "The Games industry his clearly absolutely terrified of me. This is why they went to so much effort to have me barred from this case. This is proof that I'm winning."
Anyone want to take me up on this bet?
It's easy to assume he does it for the money, but in many of these cases he's not the being paid
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.
... why did no one tell Dick Cheney?
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
If the facts are on your side, pound the facts.
If the facts are not on your side, pound the table
And if the table is not on your side, pound sand
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How can he claim to be an expert on video games when he doesn't even get the medium that the game he is discussing comes on. Someone should tell him, well not tell him because its funnier this way, that GTA:VC comes on DVD's not CD's but that's okay, i'm surprised that he even knows that they come on a medium. Also he clames that he has expertise about video games because he predicted on TV that Colimbine would happen...I thought he was a lawyer. If that was actually ever used as justification in court he'd be laughed out of the court room. I could just see the scenerio now. Laywer:" So tell us your expertise" Thomsons Testifying : "I predicted the future of how in my opinion it was a video game that caused people to kill other people" Lawyer:"Your Honor at this time I'd like to qualify the witness as an expert" Judge: "Get he the heck out of my courtroom, both of you! I have a mind to hold you in contempt for waste mine and the people's time"
Is there a way to launch a general challenge against someone who rampages around claiming expert witness status? In other words, could someone sue him, unrelated to any specific case, to stop him from claiming he is an expert witness?
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It's pretty easy for me to imagine Jack as the Old Man Withers to the Scooby-Doo gang of gamers.
Damned meddling kids.