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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."
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.
You are reading a copy of my copyrighted post.
"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...
Demented But Determined.
Well, considering how many lawyers there are around I can only assume shooting them must be illegal:/
"I may be full of crap about this game, and I may be wrong, and that's fine." -Jack Thompson
Erotic is when you use a feather. Exotic is when you use the whole chicken.