Supreme Court Declines Jack Thompson Appeal

eldavojohn writes "Jack Thompson was disbarred last year in Florida, putting a halt to annoying lawsuits targeting game makers and the constitutional rights of gamers. Well, he had appealed to the United States Supreme Court (scheduled to be heard last Friday) to get this overturned, but instead they declined to even hear his appeal. They wouldn't even give him the time to review his appeal, so it appears his disbarment for life stands. Florida had declined to file a response to Thompson's appeal, and it turns out they didn't need to. Sad day for Jack Thompson, but a great day for gamers everywhere." This comes shortly after Thompson was frustrated by the vetoing of some legislation he promoted in Utah.

Comments

He'll Be Back

[gbulmash]

The problem with zealots and fanatics is that these kinds of setbacks only help to make them believe that they just need to fight harder. It's a sad, sick feedback loop where defeat reinforces their mania instead of chipping away at it. I seriously doubt this is the last we'll hear of Jack Thompson. He'll just come up with new and creative ways to be a thorn in the side of gamers and freethinkers.

Just because he's disbarred, he can still find some rich, old lonely lady to fund his evil plans... much like Lex Luthor did in Superman Returns. But seriously, even though he's not a lawyer anymore, that doesn't stop him from getting one to act as his proxy. He just needs to find another manically deluded soul who either has a law degree or the money to pay for lawyers, and he'll be back.

Re:He'll Be Back

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

He'll probably just turn to violence, and blame it all on video games once captured.

Re:He'll Be Back

[Foobar of Borg]

If we have districts full of Americans that are stupid enough to elect a convicted felon or a deceased candidate

Well, in all fairness, the deceased candidate was running against John Ashcroft. Who do you elect, a corpse or John Ashcroft? Not much of a contest really.

Re:He'll Be Back

[Scarletdown]

He's fucking finished

or

FINISH HIM!
(distant moans)
Gamers WIN!

Flawless victory... Legality.

Stop giving him attention

[gcnaddict]

Just stop posting stories about him. Stop posting anything which would give him any attention at all unless it's about something which really is a threat. In that case, spread the word high and low to kill whatever the threat may be.

The less attention you guys personally give him, the more neglected he'll feel and the less of an attention whore he might become. Granted, this might not work, but it's better than talking about every major event in his life.

Re:Stop giving him attention

[rob1980]

The less attention you guys personally give him, the more neglected he'll feel and the less of an attention whore he might become.

Or he'll step up his efforts and when there are no sane people to keep his outlandish behavior in check, he'll be one step closer to getting his way. Jack Thompson isn't some anonymous coward you can filter out of a discussion thread just because you think he's a troll - as long as he's loud enough to get legislation on the table for discussion, he's somebody you need to keep an eye on.

Re:W00t!

[Anonymous Coward]

Put and putt share a present participle. Both are conjugated as "putting".

I'd file a bug report for this, as it's undesirable behavior, but I don't know who's maintaining the English language these days.

IANAL

[interkin3tic]

I am not a lawyer, but... neither is Jack Thompson now.