Posted on 09/27/2008 4:07:00 PM PDT by Cripplehawk
In a four-page written order (download here), the Florida Supreme Court today affirmed a referee's recommendation to permanently disbar controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson.
The action, which takes effect in 30 days, means that Thompson will no longer be licensed to practice law and may not apply for reinstatement. Ever.
In citing a litany of offenses, the Court noted Thompson's extensive pattern of misconduct and cited a "complete lack of remorse." The Court also quoted extensively from the June, 2008 report of Judge Dava Tunis, who served as referee at Thompson's November, 2007 trial on charges brought by the Florida Bar:
(Excerpt) Read more at gamepolitics.com ...
He Even blamed 9/11 on video games (the game in question was MS Flight Simulator)
To fulfill my libertarian rant for the day, why do we even need a bar? It’s just a closed shop. If it’s okay for judges to prefer their feelings to the law, I should be able to argue a case directly to a jury anytime I want.
The story may be true, but I don’t see it on the list of opinions released on that day:
http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/opinions.shtml
You can argue your own case to the bar at any time. You just can not argue someone else s case.
makes me wonder how Michael Rivera is doing.
Wow. The SCOFLA and JimRob have something in common. Who would have thunk it back in December 2000. :-)
I thought he got lost deep in the Hurtgen Forest.
I recall he was a nut but I don’t recall why.
“You just can not argue someone else s case.”
That was my point. I want to argue any case I want. Licenses are all about excluding people. Let the marketplace decide, I say. Shut up, judge, I was talking.
Aahhhhhh...thanks for the memories....I think. (And I think it was Michael Rivero. But I could be wrong.)
Should you be able to perform brain surgery any time you want?
I am pretty libertarian myself but I do believe that professional standards are a good thing and necessary.
When an individual goes looking for professional help they need to know that there is some kind of minimum standard of professionalism that they can expect to get when they hire a lawyer.
Granted that there is no guarantee and due diligence is advised when hiring a lawyer or other professionals but you don’t always have the time to spend sorting through all the names in the yellow pages and calling all of your friends to check them out.
And with out a professional association or regulating body to enforce standards how do you prevent the unprofessional such as this guy from continuing to commit malpractice? With out a Bar how do you disbar this bozo?
The badge of approval need not be a government-sanctioned one? How ever do the millions of industries without licenses from the state operate without killing people on a daily basis? How ever did the law and medicine grow in the first place without licenses seperating the good from the bad?
“And with out a professional association or regulating body to enforce standards how do you prevent the unprofessional such as this guy from continuing to commit malpractice?”
You’re right, I’ve never heard of a doctor or lawyer committing malpractice under the current system.
“With out a Bar how do you disbar this bozo?”
The same way you “disbar” a lousy grocer or a lousy plumber. Stop giving them money.
“When an individual goes looking for professional help they need to know that there is some kind of minimum standard of professionalism that they can expect to get when they hire a lawyer.”
So we’re to lazy to check up on lawyers? And the government has all the time in the world? As in all other affairs, market discipline would force people to do research. How about hotdocs.com?
Please ignore the question mark after the first sentence.
He was a really snippy dude here. Not friendly at all, unless you kissed-up to his pet theories.
Does it really matter? All you've got to do is whisper "Tublecane" to the judge, you'll be set, and the judge will be off somewhere with his paddle. :-/
I remember the guy like it was yesterday. He was the main force behind the never-proved charges that Janet Reno -- as a Florida prosecutor -- had been bought off by blackmailers that had video of her frolicking with lesbian hookers. After feuding with Jim Robinson about something or other, he began spamming the site with threads gleefully predicting its demise after the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post sued it out of existence. At one point, facetiously offered his own services to the media giants against FR in a thread he authored. After being banned, he called KSFO (San Francisco) host Geoff Metcalf and trashed the site. I called and defended it.
Disgraced moderate Democrat James Traficant lost his last shred of credibility when he fell for Thompson's nonsense. Thompson soldiered on as the go-to guy for protests against violent video games, being named as expert witness in trials against shoot-em-up games filed by parents and victims. This made him the target of game developers, some of whom unflatteringly used his likeness in their games.
He shouldn't be too disappointed -- now that he's been disbarred in Florida, he can still give legal advice to Larry Sinclair.
Jack Thompson was involved in the controversy about Elian Gonzalez. He was involved with News Max as well as FR. At first he seemed one of the good guys, turned out to be one of the weird guys.
> He was the main force behind the never-proved charges that Janet Reno — as a Florida prosecutor — had been bought off by blackmailers that had video of her frolicking with lesbian hookers.
That was my first FR thread I went to, oh so long ago. I remember it vividly. The concept of a e-bulletin board blew me away.
lol
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