Jack isn't going to use his wife unless he's totally insane. Sure he saves on filing fees... then she (quite likely) gets disbarred - and his household has gone from two lawyers' incomes to none in the space of a few months.

I can't see a guy like that flipping burgers for a living and anyway if I were the manager of McDonalds I wouldn't hire him.. he'd scare the customers.

@simon roberts
lol good one

im surprised they didnt hold him in contempt of court

trust me jack will be disbarred it cant be avoided now even the bar association journal is taking notice of his actions

this is jack finishing his resume for faux news nothing more

I have a friend who Jacko is pretty smart.


He also believes that Bush did 9/11 and that Clinton was the greatest president ever.
Who knew.


Smell ya later, Jacko.

@Steven Furtado

yup needless to say the courts saw it for what it was and refused to hear any arguements thompson was a huge ass about the campaign

and if you really want to be scared look up janet reno ion wikipedia and check the cases she oversaw!!!

jacky boy handling those, the country would have been blown to smithereens on his watch lol

This is the response that Jackie boy has given to the court
Happy reading


IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
THE FLORIDA BAR,

Complainant,

v. Case Numbers SC 07 - 80 and 07- 354

JOHN B. THOMPSON,

Respondent.

RESPONDENT’S PRELIMINARY RESPONSE TO SUPREME COURT’S
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Comes now respondent John B. Thompson (Thompson) and provides this court with a preliminary response to its show cause order of February 19, 2008, with a more detailed response to follow prior to the court’s March 5 deadline, noting:
Thompson deeply appreciates, more than this court could ever know, its show cause order as it opens the door to Thompson’s seeking and receiving relief from the federal courts.
The federal court system dismissed Thompson’s prior suit on abstention grounds, stating that Thompson had an “adequate state remedy” to seek redress for any infringement of rights by The Bar and by this Supreme Court that is supposed to oversee and remedy the misdeeds of The Bar.
This court’s panicked threat against Thompson, apparently stemming in part from the court’s having been caught by Thompson not complying with Florida Statute 876.05 (Loyalty Oath Law), has wonderfully proven not just that Thompson has no “adequate state remedy” but that he has no state remedy at all. This court threatens Thompson if he even files this pleading. This is a brazen attempt by this court to repeal the absolute right of every citizen, under the First Amendment, to “petition the government for a redress” of grievances.
This court’s misstep exquisitely proves his point to a federal tribunal that it no more understands the First Amendment than it understands the legal and constitutional issues on which it was so grandly reversed in Bush v. Gore.
Thompson has Fifth, Sixth, Fourteenth, and First Amendment rights that this court’s show cause order wildly infringes upon. Thompson has a right to represent himself in traffic court and before this court. Thompson is a competent lawyer with 31 years of continuous good standing within The Bar who has a string of victories against powerful corporate interests—the very interests who filed these SLAPP Bar complaints.
Ted Bundy, for Heaven’s sake, was not even a lawyer, and yet he was allowed to represent himself in this state within its courts. Thompson, who has committed no crime but whose “sin” is that he has waged a successful campaign against the very porn industry that helped train Bundy to kill, is being petulantly threatened by this court that he is to be muzzled and denied access to this state court. Nonsense.
US Supreme Court Justice Douglas in Lathrop v. Donohue warned that integrated state bars would eventually become “goose-stepping brigades.” This court has confirmed that those brigade are now here in this state and that this court is brazenly leading them. This court is free to enter a show cause order against the ghosts of Justices Douglas and of all the US Supreme Court Justices who handed down Keller v. State Bar of California
if it likes. Even King Canute knew he could not order the tide not to come in.
All this court with its panicked show cause threat has accomplished is handed Thompson the keys to the federal courthouse. Abstention is out the window, thanks to this High Court.
What “adequate state remedy” does any citizen have, let alone a lawyer have, when the very court that has negligently failed to oversee The Bar threatens a whistleblower with retribution because he dares to keep blowing the whistle?
This court has threatened Thompson. He does not threaten back. He hereby informs this court that he will see it in federal court. This court has just thrown Brer Rabbit into the briar patch.
Thank you so very, very much.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that this has been provided this February 20 2008, to Bar staff counsel Sheila Tuma, to Kenneth Marvin, Director of Lawyer Regulation for The Bar, to Dava Tunis, and to all Bar Governors as well as to Bar President Frank Angones.

They must be just so tired of his crap to try and put so much in his way.

Well, considering other Florida based lawyers such as Norm Kent and Tom Buscaglia (is that right?) have said JT is basically a laughing stock among lawyers in Florida I would imagine he'd have a very hard time finding someone to sign off on his stuff.

It's easy to see what Jack's real problem is - his middle name is Bruce. That can cause untold psychological damage.

Lol, Jack - it's not that they don't understand your arguments, it's that your arguments lack merit!

Oh jacky boy, the Feds,
The feds are calling
*bagpipe*

Also, Pix might have a point. He could just make his wife do it if she is also a lawyer.

Thanks for clearing that up Benji

I dint go through the posts in any sort of detail so was not aware that it was bought up...

See how they did that Jack? Simple, straight to the point and backed by facts. No gay porn, kagaroos or other nonsense and rambling inserted int there.

This has been a long time coming. Kudos to the Florida Supreme Court for finally sticking it to him as others should have done a long time ago.

This may be bad, If Jack can't sue, the anti game crusade will find another that is less crazy and more able to get people on his side

you just cost me $6000. Jack.

@ Benji

It still wouldn't surprise me if he tried to bring her down with him. His son's already been used as a tool to him before...

"That may well tinge the situation for the Court — who may not want to appear retaliatory or to be otherwise unfairly"

Funny, I think most of the time he's after just that reaction.

I think it's also worth noting that JT got out of the gay porn filing by saying something to the extent of, "whoops, my bad, won't happen again." And if that were the case, I think it's fair that he didn't get slapped with contempt. But, well, he is doing it again. Maybe not with gay porn, but he is filing lots of irrelevant materials and is basically insulting the court system. JT can only reasonably expect so many second chances before the court system gets tired of his antics.

well i believe he could get his wife to file for him, as this would still save him in legal fee's, however, there would likely be a serious cut back in his amount of filing, and she would review all of his filing, as it's going in with her name on it to, and could be potentially damaging to her career, personally i think he realizes that his practice is in the toilet, and he doesn't think it can seriously drop much lower, so he's pulling out all the stops (lets be honest, he's a lawyer up for disbarment, what are they going to do when he goes slightly overboard? fire him? i think his current tactic is annoy them into saying that it isn't worth the effort and just let him off the hook

however, when there is the potential of someone else going down in flames with him (especially a loved one such as his wife) he will likely reign it in quite a bit

Huh, who would have thought that insulting the court's level of intellect with pictures would piss them off so badly?

I think his wife intentionally distances herself from him and his shenanigans. I suspect she values her career too much to let Jacky drag her down.

@Selby: THe conflict of interest derails any hopes that JT will be able to file for free. If anything, this development is straining his marriage because when his career goes in the crapper, her career might be okay, but have her husband's shadow looming over head.

I honestly feel sorry for JT's son. He goes to school and any gamer friend with half a brain will tell him his father's insane and he comes home to that insanity. Granted, if the sting operations are any clue, he probably loves his father and is very loyal to him, but I can't help but wonder if any Teenager with a dad like that is just going to stop caring. Of, I'm sure that JT's son is a great kid who crosses every every T and dots every i, but then again I've never met any member of the Thompson clan.

If I ever met JT in person, I bet he's probably a very good, intelligent orator(He is a lawyer for goodness sake) and we'd get along fine until we talked about games, where he'd blame it for everything and I'd disagree, remaining calm and Buddhist-like while his face turns red and he accuses me of being a serial killer in VR training. I could really make him angry because if I knew before hand that I could meet him I'd point out every logical fallacy he makes in real time, quote his own words back to him and count how many times he's shouted at me.

But then again, I'm also a person who still looks forward to the day he gets disbarred because from me he'd probably get a hand delivered basket full of Peanuts.

It's unlikely Jack will manage to get out of this one. He managed to squeeze out of the last one with a warning. This time, he's been specifically warned against the behavior listed in the show cause order. The legal filing equivalent of a child smashing their room in a temper tantrum is just the last straw. The court is fed up with Jack wasting their time and money simply because he's incapable of sitting and waiting.

Nearly all of Jack's current problems with the Florida Bar could have likely been avoided if he'd just kept quiet and accept a slap on the wrist and a forced "vacation". But instead, he just won't shut up, refuses to accept any responsibility for his actions, refuses to accept that he's managed to step over the line, and demands that anyone that dares to suggest that he's acted improper, or done anything wrong be silenced and punished.

@Conejo

You've met a Lawyer with Morals?

this is one huge victory for us gamers in this war
but lets not get cocky

I doubt his wife has anything to do with this. It seems like there are certain legal "walls" preventing her from doing anything or having -any- effect, be it negative or positive, for Jack or anyone else.

I also doubt he's going to dodge the bullet just like last time. This time, it was a deliberate attack on them, and even he says so, so he can't BS his way that "Oh, I'm sorry, I must have messed up, here are the right files". He pretty much went up to them, spat in their face, punched them, and put a "kick me" sign on their backs, you can't lie your way out of that to someone of higher power than you.

I dunno...... Jack's squirmed out of a bad situation before (see gay porn fiasco), who's to say he doesn't get another slap on the wrist? Maybe his time really HAS come, but I doubt it.

@ Saladin

Yes, but a 'sorry, my bad' isn't going to save his butt a second time.

@ DavCube

Perhaps. He can't even file his own legal documents at this point. I certainly wouldn't mind his lunacy if he's disbarred. He'd be just another raving ignoramus with sketchy "facts" about video games.

If you're trying to commit occupational seppuku, Jack, it's working.

You just keep on digging that hole Jack, soon enough you'll be too deep to shout for help.

@Andrew C -- I don't think so. He started with ambulance chasing, took a detour into banning "pornography" like rap music and Howard Stern, and is now back at it with massacre chasing.

@Jabrwock:

They probably should've, at least then JT might actually understand what's happening to him.

@JackDon'tKnowJack

So, this means that Jack has never done anything good in his career?

Jack will even claim getting disbarred as a "victory"

@Dog Welder-

You forgot his lengthy crusade against Former Attorney General Janet Reno and her "Ambiguous Sexuality". lol

Give him the whole nine yards. He deserves it.

For those of you too lazy to read:

TL;DR

STFU newfag, GB2GAIA.

@Lost Question

"Jack’s not going toask her because thats a conflict of interests and as a few other posters have said those in the legal profession like to avoid conflicts of interest like the plauge and they usually have negitive reprocussions"

Most other lawyers would know that insulting the intelligence of the court presiding over your disbarment by sending them a "picture book for adults" and making a mockery of our legal system would also be something to avoid like the plague. Don't underestimate Jack's madness at this point.

@Erik: No one here thinks lightly of JT's madness, we have yet to know anything about his wife's madness. If she's reasonably sane and cares at all for her legal career she won't play any part in this.
Of course, it's possible that JT knows lawyers who aren't related to him but are sympathetic to his cause, and THEY might sign off for him, in some cases without even charging him. But there's still the issue that doing so means they're staking their reputation on JT's behavior and perhaps not everyone would want to risk that. This friend of JT's might also become a little concerned when he asks them to sign off on some new motion every single day.

damn gamepolitics, can't edit my post. What I meant to say was that I have a friend who thinks Jacko is pretty smart, not "who Jacko is pretty smart"

By the way, Jack's wife is no longer part of the bar disciplinary board. She used to be. I wonder when she left/quit/was told to leave?

@Black Manta,

And of course, as we see, using his experience as a lawyer isn't always the best solution to stop the things you don't like. Like I've said many times, Jack is the perfect example of a carpenter who sees every problem like a nail.

@Dog Welder-

Holy Mackerel! He tried politics? *Imagines Jack Thompson as a Senator*

By the way does Witty Jack earn anything as a lawyer? Or is his wife paying for stuff?

ROFLOMFGBBQ!

[...] If you don’t know who Jack Thompson is, you can think of him a bit like the Prokofy Neva of the legal world.  He’s such a deluded, psychotic, busybody pain in the ass that the Florida Supreme Court had to bar him from filing motions with the court. [...]