Kotaku Games Blog Sued By Jack Thompson

Reacting to Kotaku's coverage of comments Thompson made last week about the VA Tech incident, Thompson has sued Kotaku and their parent company Gawker media. He also tried to sic the FBI on them (getting as much success there as he did with the Penny Arcade gents). From GamePolitics' coverage: "Thompson's ire was apparently raised by Kotaku reader comments which the attorney maintains are threatening. He also alleges in the complaint that Kotaku and Gawker declined to remove the menacing posts. The messages in question stem from Kotaku's coverage of Thompson's claims that video games prompted last week's Virginia Tech massacre. The Gawker suit is actually an amendment to an action Thompson filed on March 13th against the Florida bar. On April 11th he amended it to include the members of the Florida Supreme Court. And now Gawker joins the list of defendants."

Comments

Self Sacrifice?

[Tofystedeth]

amendment to an action Thompson filed on March 13th against the Florida bar. Last I heard from JT's publicity was that he was still a member in good standing of the Florida bar. Maybe they should just let him win and then vote for him to pay all the fees....

Legal Precedent

[Manos_Of_Fate]

I bet this is the first time someone has ever used the phrase, "the chances are slim to none, and Slim just left town." in a Legal filing before.

Translation:

[markbt73]

"Waah! Your readers were mean to me!"

If only all the nutjobs were as easily dismissable as Jack.

Re:Translation:

[doubleofive]

Watch your mouth, or Slashdot will be next on his agenda!

Grandpa

[Valacosa]

Remember kids, when Grandpa goes senile, it's not a good idea to let him drive...or practice law.

read the lawsuit

[Blob Pet]

It's pretty funny if you read it. Thompson is so eloquent when you calls people "liberal intolerants" and "Stalinists."

Re:read the lawsuit

[Emperor Zombie]

Personally, I like #29:

Pictured among the self-styled "Guardians of Democracy" is the current President of The Florida Bar, Hank Coxe, who told Thompson and his lawyer, to their faces in a May 15, 2006, meeting in Tallahassee that Thompson "should be suspended from the practice of law for his vitriol." This may be the first time the head of a state bar has maintained that a lawyer should be suspended from the practice of law for an alleged attitudinal problem. Given The Bar's growing anti-Christian, anti-faith bias, Mr. Coxe undoubtedly would have found Jesus Christ's repeated upbraiding of the Pharisees to be unacceptably "vitriolic."

That's right folks, JT is the new Jesus

Re:read the lawsuit

[Damvan]

My favorite:

"The happy result was that Thompson is now the only officially Bar-certified sane lawyer in Florida."

Wow. I can't believe this guy puts things like this into legal filings.

adding slashdot to the suit

[anarchy_man3]

I am going to kill Jack Thompson with a chainsaw.

Smoking Crack

[Greyfox]

Leads to far more murders than video games do. I wonder if a motion to dismiss because the plaintiff is clearly smoking crack would hold up in court. If I were the judge presiding over a case where such a motion were filed I'd at the very least have to order a drug test for the plaintiff. If law were really that much fun I'd have gone into it instead of programming.

Don't mind me, I'm just rambling...

Badge of Honor

[rlp]

Someone should create a 'Sued by Jack Thompson' logo for gaming sites.

Re:Um...

[Psmylie]

Having spent a grand total of 30 minutes reading up on it, I hereby declare myself to be an expert on "Bat-Shit Crazy Lawyers". In my expert opinion, the subject is, indeed, Bat-Shit Crazy. I recommend he be commited to the nearest Looney Bin, Wacky Shack, or Nut house.

Declaring yourself an expert is easy, I love it!