March 20 [2008]

Florida Supreme Court pwns sanctions Jack Thompson

Filed under: Games (Also Video), Games (Video), Terrorist activity — wedge55 @ 7:54 PM

florida supreme court jack thompson sanctionGamePolitics is reporting the Florida Supreme Court ruled this morning that attorney Jack Thompson, controversial anti-video-game-violence activist and frequent critic of Take-Two Interactive, can no longer submit documents to the Court. He must now hire a lawyer of his own to submit documents to the Court on his behalf.

This ruling comes after Thompson “submitted over fifty filings directly with [the] Court, all of which [were] forwarded to the referee, dismissed, or denied.” The Florida Supreme court found many of the documents Thompson submitted to be “inappropriate and pornographic,” in particular a “children’s picture book for adults” Thompson used to visually express his position to the Court with images of

swastikas, kangaroos in court, a reproduced dollar bill, cartoon squirrels, Paul Simon, Paul Newman, Ray Charles, a handprint with the word “SLAP!” written under it, Bar Governor Benedict P. Kuehne, a baby, Ed Bradley, Jack Nicholson, Justice Clarence Thomas, Julius Caesar, monkeys, and a house of cards.

Wait, seriously? In that case, these sanctions should come as no surprise to anyone, including Jack Thompson himself.

You can read the order issued by the Court (PDF) over at GamePolitics in its entirety. It’s short, shockingly light on legalese, and more entertaining than it has any right to be. In fact, at this point I think we can safely classify Jack Thompson as the most entertaining lawyer outside of Law & Order.

It should be noted that this ruling has nothing to do with Thompson’s ongoing Florida bar trial.

4 Comments »

  1. http://goonfleet.com/images/smilies/gf-psypop.gif

    Comment by Leadpipe — March 20 [2008] @ 8:20 PM

  2. slap

    Comment by vector_black — March 20 [2008] @ 9:00 PM

  3. I think we should become awesome lawyers.

    Comment by wedge55 — March 20 [2008] @ 10:57 PM

  4. With Sam Waterston’s guidance, there’s no way we can lose.

    Comment by vector_black — March 21 [2008] @ 12:34 AM

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