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Bar Orders Psychiatric Testing For (Jack) Thompson
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Posted on 07/03/2007 1:52:45 PM PDT by Rodney King

According to GamePolitics, the Florida Bar proposed late last week that anti-game activist and attorney, Jack Thompson, submit to psychological testing and accept a 91-day suspension of his law license. The interesting part? This isn't the first time.

Thompson is currently locked in a pair of federal lawsuits against the Bar, and the latter decided to hold a disciplinary hearing against Thompson based on several complaints. These complaints center on the attorney's professional - or lack thereof - conduct when involved in recent court battles with the likes of Grand Theft Auto and Bully. Thus far, the June 25 hearing has been postponed, and mediation talks between Thompson and the Bar have commenced.

GamePolitics posted an e-mail sent by Thompson; it seems to be a filing with the Florida Supreme Court, which has jurisdiction over the Bar.

Mediation failed today because there was no mediation whatsoever� [Florida Bar official] Ms. Tuma not only did not move off her [suspension] demand one iota, not one smidgeon, but she instead upped her demand by requiring that Thompson undergo a battery of psychological tests as part of the fabulous deal The Bar offered him�

Ms. Tuma [sic] last demand going into the mediation was a 91-day suspension, and she opened and ended with that and a shrink�s couch. This is bad faith�

This �mediation� was a charade� Finally, [Thompson] requests a status conference herein as soon as possible so that we can� shut this Star Chamber down. Thompson is not the one who needs a psych evaluation.

As we said earlier, this isn't the first time the Bar has asked that Thompson undergo psychiatric testing. In his 2005 book, "Out of Harm's Way," he says the Bar forced similar testing on him in the early '90s. Of course, Thompson promptly sued the Bar after passing the test, landing $20,000 in monetary damages. Well, it remains to be seen if he passes this time, and it must be yet another blow to his reputation...but then again, he probably doesn't care.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: batjack; crazy; jackthompson
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Why would anybody think he needs psychiatric testing?
1 posted on 07/03/2007 1:52:47 PM PDT by Rodney King
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To: Rodney King

Ex FReeper, N’est pas?


2 posted on 07/03/2007 1:57:18 PM PDT by Inquisitive1 (I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance - Socrates)
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To: Rodney King

My guess is because he is a complete head case.

APf


3 posted on 07/03/2007 1:57:35 PM PDT by APFel (Regnum Nostrum Crescit)
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To: Inquisitive1

yeah


4 posted on 07/03/2007 1:58:50 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King

Because it’s not normal to fixate on stopping other people from playing video games through intervening legal actions.


5 posted on 07/03/2007 1:58:54 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Rodney King
Thompson promptly sued the Bar after passing the test, landing $20,000 in monetary damages.

Is there anything funnier than lawyers suing lawyers?

6 posted on 07/03/2007 2:00:00 PM PDT by donna (Typhoid Mary Matalin, the Republican Administration Destroyer.)
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To: Rodney King

Any bets that this story is a plant to make the last name Thompson with nut cases?


7 posted on 07/03/2007 2:01:00 PM PDT by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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To: SteveMcKing

That pretty much covers it.. this guy is pretty much obsessive compulsive over leglelsating people’s choices.


8 posted on 07/03/2007 2:01:07 PM PDT by mnehring (Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit)
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To: Rodney King

Beats me. He always seemed such a calm, level-headed sort of guy when he was here.


9 posted on 07/03/2007 2:01:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Yeah. Not batty at all.


10 posted on 07/03/2007 2:04:05 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Billthedrill

Surely you jest!


11 posted on 07/03/2007 2:05:22 PM PDT by DB
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To: DB

No, really. Except for the lawsuits, death threats, shrieking protests, frenzied tirades and foaming at the mouth he was just your normal, quiet kind of guy.


12 posted on 07/03/2007 2:07:31 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Rodney King
Is this guy a relative of Fred Thompson!!!????
13 posted on 07/03/2007 2:10:38 PM PDT by rface (I love GW Bush .... but I don't always agree with him)
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To: rface

Not unless Fred Thompson has a nutty cousin.


14 posted on 07/03/2007 2:11:32 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King

He got on some high-powered FR’s nerves here a long time ago as you know; personally I think the guy is smarter than Hell and I don’t give a darn if someone is rude or crass but I never cared for persecution.

For the Bar to use its collective power to silence him is reprehensible and instructive as well.

Never mess with the Brotherhood.


15 posted on 07/03/2007 2:14:52 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: rface

that is the implication no matter how untrue.

(big lie theory at work)

however, I bet the bar prosecutor could use a bit of evaluation herself.


16 posted on 07/03/2007 2:19:38 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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Ex FReeper

That doesn't necessarily mean he's nuts. Before reaching that judgement we'd ought, in fairness, first examine his OPUS thread, and his messages at Liberty Post.

17 posted on 07/03/2007 2:22:44 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Rodney King

He just keeps on giving!


18 posted on 07/03/2007 2:24:35 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (I'M WITH FRED!)
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To: Old Professer

The Florida Bar can’t be all that powerful any more.

Senator Mel Martinez blew them off and sent a video taped keynote speech so he could attend the Latino Elected Official conference next door (both were in orlando).


19 posted on 07/03/2007 2:27:10 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Rodney King

No surprise there!


20 posted on 07/03/2007 2:29:30 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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