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I'd pay a hitman to have him killed if it didn't completely prove his point. The guy's just annoying now.
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I rather think at this point he should be sued for harrassment and disbarred. He's clearly abused... Well, virtually every power offered him as a lawyer, and many of those offered to private citizens.
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He was already permanently disbarred in Alabama, the fact that Florida has not done so yet is rather embarrassing to the Florida legal system.
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Do we know WHY this guy has such a bug up his butt about video games? Was his nephew squashed under a box of Doom packages in a warehouse? Did the exploding critters in Dig-Dug scar his psyche?
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People are willing to give him money so he can back up their opportunistic slander with "expert opinion."
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quote:Originally posted by Sterling: I rather think at this point he should be sued for harrassment and disbarred. He's clearly abused... Well, virtually every power offered him as a lawyer, and many of those offered to private citizens.
I don't think he can be sued for harrasment on this particular one. If you read the articles, it says that he sent the letter to Strauss Zelnick's lawyer (because of a court order saying that he only communicate with Zelnick through counsel). So Zelnick's mother probably has never seen the letter unless Zelnick or his lawyer forwarded it to her.
quote:Originally posted by Sterling: I rather think at this point he should be sued for harrassment and disbarred. He's clearly abused... Well, virtually every power offered him as a lawyer, and many of those offered to private citizens.
I don't think he can be sued for harrasment on this particular one. If you read the articles, it says that he sent the letter to Strauss Zelnick's lawyer (because of a court order saying that he only communicate with Zelnick through counsel). So Zelnick's mother probably has never seen the letter unless Zelnick or his lawyer forwarded it to her.
--Enigmatic
Ah. So he's only being a grandstanding idiot. Well, that's nothing new.
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quote:Originally posted by TheTick: Do we know WHY this guy has such a bug up his butt about video games? Was his nephew squashed under a box of Doom packages in a warehouse? Did the exploding critters in Dig-Dug scar his psyche?
For starters, he's legitimately mentally ill.
He's also a hardXcore born-again christian type and his general nuttiness has caused him to pervert that faith into him doing all this out of a wacky sacrificial martyrdom/persecution complex. He's a Holy Warrior fighting for God against dem vid'jo games and other moral scourges.
Why the God vs. Video Games in his head these days is anyone's guess but I'm kind of assuming that while his forays against rap music, Howard Stern, and Janet Reno all approached similar levels of fanaticism by him, the video game industry was the first 'moral scourge' to only ever gain ground against him and never lose ground. His rhetorical devices became belligerent and he went off the deep end, which caused the courts to have to keep him in line, which made the courts The Enemy too.
quote:Among the extensive findings of fact presented in the report, the Court takes particular note of the following which occurred during the three-year period at issue in five counts in these cases:
(1) respondent made false statements of material fact to courts and repeatedly violated a court order;
(2) respondent communicated the subject of representation directly with clients of opposing counsel;
(3) respondent engaged in prohibited ex parte communications;
(4) respondent publicized and sent hundreds of pages of vitriolic and disparaging missives, letters, faxes, and press releases, to the affected individuals;
(5) respondent targeted an individual who was not involved with respondent in any way, merely due to "the position [the individual] holds in state and national politics;"
(6) respondent falsely, recklessly, and publicly accused a judge as being amenable to the "fixing" of cases;
(7) respondent sent courts inappropriate and offensive sexual materials;
(8) respondent falsely and publicly accused various attorneys and their clients of engaging in a conspiracy/enterprise involving "the criminal distribution of sexual materials to minors" and attempted to get prosecuting authorities to charge these attorneys and their clients for racketeering and extortion;
(9) respondent harassed the former client of an attorney in an effort to get the client to use its influence to persuade the attorney to withdraw a defamation suit filed by the attorney against respondent; and
(10) respondent retaliated against attorneys who filed Bar complaints against him for his unethical conduct by asserting to their clients, government officials, politicians, the media, female lawyers in their law firm, employees, personal friends, acquaintances, and their wives, that the attorneys were criminal Case Nos. SC07-80 and SC07-354 Page Three pornographers who objectify women.
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I guess "stark raving loon" wasn't sufficient reason...
quote:In response to our request for comment Thompson sent Kotaku a copy of an emergency motion he filed with the court, this despite the ruling which states that only another attorney in good standing with the Florida Bar could file a motion for rehearing on Thompson's behalf.
Florida might be a crazy state, but he's going to have a really hard time finding someone else that will get anywhere near this one.
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Even though I think he deserves to be disbarred, he also deserves to have his case fully considered. If a motion for reconsideration is proper - and it seems to be, although I haven't looked at the rules - then I don't see most attorneys having a problem filing one.
However, I expect Thompson doesn't want a proper motion filed. I expect he wants to have HIS motion filed, and I expect that motion to be one no attorney wants to sign.
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Wow... That motion seems like it needs paragraph breaks that say "[sad violins]" "[trumpets]".
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quote:A long-time critic of the video game industry has sued Facebook for US$40 million, saying that the social networking site harmed him by not removing angry postings made by Facebook gamers.
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It is neither cash nor fame that motivates him more than it is the fact that, like Orly Taitz, he's pretty much mentally ill. Not joking!
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