Archive for the tag "Jack Thompson"
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Jack Thompson | 18 Comments »
30 days and zero appeals later, Jack Thompson’s career in “law” is finally kaput.
The Florida Bar’s website, after a quick search for the unsuccessful law-fighter, serves as official proof ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in America, Hot, Journalism, Legalities | 21 Comments »
Ex-ESA boss Doug Lowenstein's written to Kotaku to claim that about-to-be-disbarred legal sensation Jack Thompson was partially a monster creation of the games media, accusing the specialist press of reporting ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in America, Jack Thompson, Legalities | 9 Comments »
Kotaku's reporting that Jack Thompson has finally, genuinely been disbarred. Or at least he will be 30 days from now.
A US court has approved a previous ruling made by Judge ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in America, Legalities | No Comments »
Daily Business Review's posted an audio file of Jack Thompson's Miami hearing last week, during which a judge recommended he be disbarred for 10 years.
It's shit quality, but you can ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in America, Legalities | 14 Comments »
A Florida court yesterday recommended that anti-game super-lawyer Jack Thompson be banned from practicing law for the next decade.
If upheld, the ruling will be Thompson won't be able to perform ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in 2K, EA, Jack Thompson, Legalities, Rockstar, Take-Two | 5 Comments »
Jack Thompson has offered his help to EA in securing a take-over of Take-Two, and in the process getting rid of Strauss Zelnick, the publisher head he blames pretty much ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Jack Thompson, Legalities, Shooter, Violence in games | No Comments »
Jack Thompson has written to North Illinois University threatening a lawsuit if the institution doesn't hand over any documents related to killer Steven Kazmierczak's experience with videogames.
"Pursuant to the Illinois ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in America, Jack Thompson, Violence in games | 4 Comments »
Anti-games campaigner Jack Thompson has written to the president of North Illinois University - site of this week's shootings by former student Stephen Kazmierczak to again link the crime to ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008 Posted in Jack Thompson, Shooter, Stuff, Violence in games | 2 Comments »
This is pretty shocking. As you can see from the video below, US attorney Jack Thompson made more than a passing reference to games on Fox News yesterday in relation ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Jack Thompson, Shooter, Stuff, Violence in games | 2 Comments »
According to this, anti-games campaigner Jack Thompson appeared on Fox News this morning to blame yesterday's Illinois University shooting on games such as Counter-Strike.
As far as we're aware, no evidence ...
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