Did Jack Thompson pre-emptively doom future game laws?
I’ve written a lot about laws restricting the sale of violent video games and how they’re inevitably found unconstitutional. Florida lawyer and anti-game curmudgeon Jack Thompson has been a driving force behind several of these laws, including one in Louisiana that has left taxpayers on the hook for $92,000 in legal fees. But now Thompson might have unwittingly made those laws much harder to pass — at least if he has anything to do with them. Back in October, Thompson made a big fuss over Bully and tried to block the game from being sold in Florida. The judge in that case filed a complaint over Thompson’s behavior and statements, a complaint that was upheld by the Florida Bar. Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of Bully, sought to have Thompson declared in contempt of court and sued him, fearing Thompson would try the same Bully tactics after he threatened to sue to block sales of the upcoming Manhunt 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV. Now Thompson and Take-Two have settled that lawsuit and a
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