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Referee Recommends Disbarment For Jack Thompson
spielermacher writes "GamePolitics is reporting that Jack Thompson — the lawyer every gamer loves to hate — has apparently lost his court case and is facing disbarment. The Referee in the case has gone beyond the Florida Bar's request for a 10-year disbarment and is recommending a lifetime ban. From the Final Report issued by the court: '... the Respondent has demonstrated a pattern 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. He does not proceed within the guidelines of appropriate professional behavior ...' All I can say is that it's about time."
The Judge also wants him to cough up $43,000 to cover the Bar costs because the whole thing was so outrageous.
ACs are modded -6. I don't read you, I don't mod you, I don't see you. Don't like it? Don't be a coward.
At least the US Gov. managed to do one thing right today.
It's not the US government, it's the state of Florida.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Shouldn't that be "PWNED!"?
Setting his threshold to 5, Sparky eliminated most of the trolls on /.
He could try suing the Florida bar in federal court, but the chances of the circuit court taking the case are pretty slim.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
It's not the US government, it's the state of Florida.
It's not even the state of Florida. It's the Florida Bar, which is a professional organization set up by the Florida Supreme Court. So while it was granted authority by the government of Florida, it isn't part of the government of Florida.
One contract that I was at had an incompetent DBA. (The first time I began to question her abilities was when she asked if changing the desktop bitmap would impact system performance).
It does. At least on very old computers with little RAM, if you had a large desktop image, it'd have to swap it from disk to display it, so the desktop would take very long to display. I still remember the days...
I used to think it was a silly position as well, but after reading a post on slashdot recommending this book I've gotta admit that I've changed stance on the subject. He compares video games with the military's conditioning. Say what you want, the guy knew a lot on the subject. PS: It's only the last chapter of the book that's about video games / movies and their effects but the rest is an interesting read.
Well, I knew he's a hardcore-conservative born-again Christian and I saw the recent story where he sent pictures of hot gay sex to the court, and not in a "hey, check out this hot, hot gay sex" way. So I allowed myself a little speculative license.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disbarment
"However, under the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which have been adopted in most states, disbarment in one state or court is grounds for disbarment in a jurisdiction which has adopted the Model Rules."
The bar brought the suit to revoke his license. The state actually issues the license, and can revoke it when the bar recommends that it do so.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I have to question the journalism skills of a gaming site. Just like slashdot, they are very quick to do stories that promote a certain way of thinking, correct or not. Here's a bit of the PDF they built the story on:
"It is apparent that other costs have or may be incurred. It is recommended that all such costs and expenses together with the foregoing itemized costs be charged to the Respondent, and that interest at the statutory rate shall accrue and be payable beginning 30 days after the judgement in this case becomes final unless a waiver is granted by the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar. It is further recommended that Respondent shall be deemed delinquent and ineligible to practice law persuant to R. Regulating Fla. Bar 1-3.6 for failure to timely pay the costs assessed in this proceeding."
It looks more, to me, he's in trouble with just Florida, but only if he doesn't pay his fees on time. My understanding is, he could skip paying this. I don't think he's commented on what he'll do, but it's highly likely he'll pay like any other lawyer and be able to continue pestering people in Florida. Regardless, he has 49 other states to harass.
Close... the perigee becomes lower and the period becomes faster, so you will slowly overtake the ISS.
Although the orbits intersect, when you get back to where you started, the ISS is slightly behind, so you won't run into it.
It's actually another good example of a violation of common sense in orbital mechanics - you have to decelerate to speed your orbit up, and vice versa.