Jack Thompson Disbarred 522
Sockatume writes "The Florida Supreme Court has approved Judge Dava Tunis' recommendations for the permanent disbarment of John B. "Jack" Thompson, with no leave to reapply and $43,675.35 in disciplinary costs. The ruling is a step up from the enhanced disbarment that had been suggested by the prosecution, which would have forbidden him from reapplying for ten years. Thompson has 30 days to appeal the ruling before the disbarment is permanent. Thompson responds to the ruling."
Bad news for GTA (Score:5, Funny)
Not that I see that as a bad thing...
on the plus side (Score:5, Funny)
this will give more time to sit around in front of the computer at home, playing video games
Re:Hrmmm.. I dont like this. (Score:5, Funny)
Thompson always wanted to own a Bar. Now, armed with multiple US Supreme Court rulings that no state bar can do what it has done to Thompson, he is set to own that Bar.
Different kind of bar?
Re:What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:on the plus side (Score:4, Funny)
this will give more time to sit around in front of the computer at home, playing video games
Bad idea. Thanks to him, we all know that violent video games are a direct cause of violent behavior, and I don't think we need someone as dangerously imbalanced as him getting violent.
Re:Hrmmm.. I dont like this. (Score:5, Funny)
All it takes is pissing of the Bar and a few judges, and you've lost what you made with 12 years of college.
To be fair, he did more than that, he did his darndest to further the stereotype of lawyers as being rabid, idiotic, greedy, power hungry attack dogs. More significantly, he was tying up a lot of time and wasting a lot of other people's money by using completely frivolous lawsuits as a soapbox. Then he was blatantly disrespectful to everyone else, even those who disagreed with him.
This isn't like being fired because you beat your boss at golf, this is like being fired because you lost your temper, took out an ad in the local newspaper saying your company kills puppies, and then took a shit on your boss' desk.
Re:Hrmmm.. I dont like this. (Score:5, Funny)
He did what with the piss of some judges?
Re:Hrmmm.. I dont like this. (Score:5, Funny)
"Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well... he eats you."
That kind of bar. I think.
Well I'll be... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hrmmm.. I dont like this. (Score:5, Funny)
You sound like you've thought this through. ;-)
Cheers
Re:Well... (Score:3, Funny)
And then I realized I might miss his special brand of crazy...
Don't worry, the world is full of crazy. When one falls, seven more rise up to take their place.
Re:What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
Just nuke him from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
April fools? (Score:5, Funny)
I mean seriously - this is just too good to be true.
Jack Thompson disbarred. The RIAA loses its first court case on their "making available" theory.
I'm waiting for the OMG ponies to show up.
Nerd-vana (Score:5, Funny)
So today we have stories in which the DOJ opposes becoming the Federal Copyright Cops, the RIAA loses a couple hundred thousand dollar lawsuit, and Jack Thompson gets disbarred. To quote Perfect Strangers: Now we are so happy, we do the Dance of Joy!
Can somebody.... (Score:5, Funny)
.... Please give him a cup of hot coffee to calm him down?
OMG PONIES! (Score:2, Funny)
IANAL (Score:2, Funny)
and soon I won't be the only one who can say that.
Re:This will be a day long remembered. (Score:5, Funny)
The end of an error.
Re:Hrmmm.. I dont like this. (Score:3, Funny)
/rimshot
Thanks folks, I'll be here all night!
Now they need to add this to the next GTA. (Score:5, Funny)
Have a Bar called "Jack's Bar" and as you walk in there is a white haired lawyer that the bouncer is int he process of throwing out.
Bouncer: Sir you are being a nuisance to the customers please leave.
Lawyer: But.... I am a prominent lawyer in the community, I was on nationwide TV for crying out loud!
Bouncer: Shutup and get out, NOW!!!
Bouncer then throws the lawyer out on his his ass, get it, "Dis-Bar-ed" LOLZ!
Fox News? (Score:2, Funny)
...so his plan all along was the same as that of most high-level Republicans?
Re:Hrmmm.. I dont like this. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:April fools? (Score:5, Funny)
This just in: SCO admits shenanigans, forfeits all future appeals!
Microsoft declares the war is over; adopts open-source licenses for all of its products
P is proven not to equal NP; poor grad student becomes king of shit fuck mountain ...I mean seriously, what a day! I don't know about all of you, but I'm going to go celebrate by playing my "murder simulator"!
Re:Hallelujah! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This will be a day long remembered. (Score:5, Funny)
I also hear Duke Nukem Forever went gold today!
Re:What the hell is going on today (Score:3, Funny)
Is the world actually getting better?
It was, until my email address was seized by the state of Kentucky...
Re:Hallelujah! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hallelujah! (Score:2, Funny)
IANAL, but I've worked with them for years now as a paramalegal.
mmm chew-gooey caramel...
wait, what?
He has friends? (Score:4, Funny)
From his 'response':
With enemies this foolish, Thompson needs only the loyal friends he has.
I have some bad news for you, Jack: Your Mom and Dad don't count as 'friends'... and they can't stand you anymore either.
Re:This will be a day long remembered. (Score:5, Funny)
wait until after the mortgage bail out fails and then even with global petrol reduction the global economy tanks without americans able to borrow money to buy big houses they can't afford to drive
"One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, 'Where do you live?' I said, 'Right here.' Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway." -- Steven Wright
Re:Hallelujah! (Score:1, Funny)
I prefer the explanation from this Penny Arcade strip [penny-arcade.com].
There is a God. (Score:5, Funny)
Jack Thompson disbarred. On my birthday.
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me...
Re:Hallelujah! (Score:5, Funny)
Jumping Jesus in a hopped up chariot. A lawyer being kicked out of the club for being unethical?
Isn't that like being kicked out of Aeorosmith for having a drug problem??
I mean, how bad would it have to be before a group of lawyers thinks what you are doing is too unethical?
That all being said I really think it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...
Re:Holy cow (Score:1, Funny)
Female, mother with young children, probably calling herself doctor but with a PhD in education.
I think you're setting the bar a bit high here. Throw in "overweight" and replace the PhD with an MA or maybe EdD and you've got it.
Hey, Jack, Welcome to /. (Score:5, Funny)
Not to defend Thompson, consider the following charges:
Doesn't this list make him sound like a pretty typical Slashdotter?
Decision (Score:4, Funny)
<singing>Hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back no more no more no more no more, hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back no more!</singing>
Re:Hallelujah! (Score:5, Funny)
There is a whole world outside of the U.S. In some parts of it, they even speak languages other than English.
Fry: "What do we care? We live in the United States."
Leela: "The United States is part of the world."
Fry: "Wow, I have been gone a long time."
Re:Hallelujah! (Score:5, Funny)
Hello friend,
But have you TRIED rotten herring ice cream?
I have this information pamphlet I'd like to share with you...
Poor Jack (Score:2, Funny)
Now that you have been disbarred, I am sure your not feeling too well. You know you don't have anything if you don't have your health. So I suggest making an appointment with this great doctor I know, that will fix you right up. His name is Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
Re:Hallelujah! (Score:4, Funny)
A "modern Christian" walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and even floats . . .
Does that mean they're made of wood?
Re:Hallelujah! (Score:0, Funny)