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Feb 4 / Ozymandias

Jack Thompson to Face Florida Supreme Court Discipinary Hearing

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You can read all the details over at GamePolitics.com. To quote:

GamePolitics has learned that controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson faces a disciplinary hearing before a referee appointed by the Florida Supreme Court.

The pending judicial review follows a recent recommendation by the Florida Bar that five counts of professional misconduct against Thompson should proceed to the state’s high court for action. If the charges are eventually upheld, Thompson could face disciplinary action up to and including disbarment.

Won't go into all the sordid details – frankly, I dislike writing anything about this guy at all. However, thought it was worth sharing because it may be that we're finally beginning to see the shifting of the needle of attacks on the video game industry. Over the last few years we've seen a variety of suits attempting to ban/bar the sale of video games as being dangerous to youth or immoral. They keep getting batted down, and Jack's usually around to try and pick up the pieces. Should he be disbarred, you have to wonder who would try to keep up such a useless fight? Crossing my fingers on this.

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  • http://technowledgy.spaces.live.com BackScatter

    Well… If nothing else he’s entertaining to watch. :-)

  • Sean

    It’s unfortunate that this may cost him everything, but no one can say that he didn’t bring it on himself.

  • http://www.kimpallister.com Kim

    I have mixed feelings about it.

    He’s an idiot, yes. He should be disbarred, yes.

    However, a guy that far off the charts does as much harm to his cause as he does good. Should his cause be taken up by someone more moderated, reasonable and articulate, they may be tougher to deal with than ol’ JT.

  • imaginedbug

    He, and many others, fight for the right cause in the wrong way. Rather than blaming and trying to "punish" the game industry and adult gamers for kids playing games they’re not old enough to play, he should’ve spent his time finding out how to educate parents.

    I have nothing against 10 year olds playing games on Xbox Live, but I don’t appreciate parents who buy their kids Gears of War and Rainbow Six: Vegas. Maybe those parents think their kids are mature for their age, but there’s a good reason those games have M/18+ ratings.

    Instead of hating the games, or hating the people playing them, educate the (grand)parents who buy the games for their under-aged (grand)kids.

  • Rask

    I dislike Jack but the way he does things and the rants he usually goes on makes it hard for anyone outside the mainstream media to take him seriously.

    Gamers and his peers know he is a joke.

    I’ll be more worried when a very carismatic, well spoken, snake in the grass lawyer takes up this cause and actually wins suits.

  • BPerry

    I think the guys from penny arcade said it best, better the incompetent adversary you know than the competent one you haven’t met yet.

    In the end I hope this is a good portent rather than a bad one.

  • Anon

    BTW, there’s an ‘l’ in disciplinary :)

  • imaginedbug

    It seems there’s a new reason to play "shoot ‘em ups" as Reuters calls them; it improves your eye sight by up to 20%. With the 360 having so many shooters, Microsoft should help some researchers and donate 360′s to the good cause.

    I wonder what mr. Thompson has to say about this…

    Story here: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-02-07T083003Z_01_SP181155_RTRUKOC_0_US-VIDEOGAMES-VISION.xml&src=rss