In his ruling Judge Paul Huck wrote:

Plaintiff may not, time and again, add more and more distinct and unrelated claims into a single lawsuit. This action will not serve as a repository for any and all real or perceived claims that Plaintiff has against various entities...

Although Plaintiff, in his motion, characterizes the actions of the Defendants as a "collaborated assault" against him, it is apparent that... Plaintiff's accusations against Gawker Media... are wholly separate from his claims against the remaining defendants.

Of course Thompson could file another suit against us, or me, or my mother for spawning me, or my dog for letting me take it for walks or the chair I sit on for supporting me. Well, you get the point.

Motion Denied... Judge Won't Allow Jack Thompson to Reinstate Kotaku Suit [Game Politics]

Jack has, over the past years, tried to get me fired more times than I can remember. He has emailed me editor, my editor's boss, my editor's boss's boss and my editor's boss's boss's boss.

Despite his false and defamatory statements to them and his efforts at costing me my livelihood, I haven't sought to sue him... yet. But it's something I keep in mind every time he goes after me.

His latest threat and harassment comes from the story I wrote yesterday based off of the public records provided me by the Florida Bar.

In it he claims he knows nothing about the first, 1992 case, in which the bar says he was accused of trying to get someone to hire him as their lawyer, when they already have one.

He claims that he knows nothing about this and that he intends to sue me. This is, I don't know, perhaps the twentieth time he's threatened to do so.

He also sent the letter to the publisher of the Rocky Mountain News, the managing editor of the Rocky and the feature's editor of the Rocky asking them to retract the story.

I'm not sure if he's an idiot or just has issues with going to the correct source of a story. Just a heads up Jack, the Rocky has nothing to do with Kotaku, so they can't get me to retract this.

If there is a factual error, as I stated before, I'd be more than happy to correct. Please do let me know.

I did, after receiving the email, contact the Florida bar and was assured that Jack was indeed reprimanded in 1992 after pleading guilty to violating rules of professional conduct.

Hit the jump for his latest rant and my response, if you are so inclined. Brian Crecente

Subject: : Demand for retraction from the Rocky Mountain News' Brian Crecente, Editor of Kotaku
Dear Mr. Crecente:

The below excerpt, in quotation marks, is in your "news" article at http://kotaku.com/gaming/jack-thompson/feature-the-florida-bars-many-jack-thompson-imbroglios-233783.php:

"Summary: This record was on the verge of being deep-sixed when I rescued it from the Florida Bar. Unfortunately, it is very light on details. All I can gather is that Thompson was accused of, and later admitted to, trying to get someone to hire him as a lawyer after the person already had one."

I demand a full retraction and apology for the above, pursuant to Florida Statutes 770, et sequitur, as I intend to sue you for this false and defamatory statement.

I may find other errors in your one-side story, but my wife is going into the hospital for major surgery this morning, and I don't have the time right now, as we head there, to find other errors. Thanks so much for this gift on the scariest day of our lives, Brian.

As to the above, I NEVER was even charged with "trying to get someone to hire him as a lawyer after the person already had one." Never heard of that charge, was never charged with it. It never happened. Yet you state that I pled guilty to this! I am sending this email to my lawyer, Ray Reiser, to alert him that this is what comes from "video game journalists."

You see, Brian, this is what happens when you do a story after I warned you, in writing, to contact me for my side of the story before you wrote it.

As you know, I specifically emailed you over the weekend, since I saw your promise to your readers than on Monday you would be exposing me as to all my Bar problems, and I warned you, in writing, that before you did that you would be well-advised to get my side of the story. You refused to do that, and now you have stepped in it. Any journalist would have gotten my side of the story. That would have protected you from publishing the above false and defamatory non-fact.

I am sending this to the Rocky Mountain News, where you do stories, to alert them that this is how reckless you are. Folks, this guy writes for your paper?

Finally, you will recall, Brian, that one of your writers, when I encouraged him to engage me in a discussion should I be at a debate on a college campus about video game issues (I just had such a debate at California University near Pittsburgh) then he could feel free to engage in the debate. I have the email in which I did that.

He then reported at your site that I clearly was really interested in sex, and that he came to that conclusion because I simply thought by his name, Florian, he was a woman. How one gets from "join the debate" to J"ack Thompson wants to have sex with me," only one of your writers could explain. As you know, that was a total contrivance, and I asked you to retract that outrageous assertion which you actually published at your site—the assertion that I was soliciting this person for sex. You refused. I now intend to sue you and your site for that as well. With all that "Jack Thompson wants sex with a Kotaku writer" in the mix, you nevertheless wrote the above false story. Incredible. Do you have any idea what "actual malice" is?

The "Mad Hatter" cartoon doesn't help you in that regard as well.

Nice going, Brian. Regards, Jack Thompson

Copy: Rocky Mountain News

Jack Thompson, Attorney
Land line: 305-666-4366, Cell: 305-588-3005
1172 South Dixie Hwy, Suite 111
Coral Gables, FL USA 33146 amendmentone@comcast.net

Subject: Re
Jack,
First let me say that I hope your wife is OK and I wish you luck on her procedure.

As I said to you when we discussed this on Saturday. I am more than happy to include comments from you, but I wasn't going to hold the story. You never replied so I ran it.

If you'd like to write something up for inclusion in the story now that you've read it I will promptly add it to the record.

As for this 1992 case. You can see by the official records provided me by the Floirda Bar, which I've included with the story, that I am only writing off the information included in your record with that state entity.

If there is some sort of mix up, I suggest you take it up with the Florida Bar. In the meantime, I will contact them today to verify that there wasn't some error in the information they sent to me when I filed an open records request with them for all of the ethics investigations involving your tenure as a lawyer in Florida.

Please do keep me informed with what you find out and I will make sure to let you know what they told me.
I will point out to you and your lawyer that your repeated attempts to cost me my job at the Rocky Mountain News could, I believe, be perceived as harassment and, as I've requested before, I suggest you stop it before I have to make a legal matter of it.
For you to so blatantly lie in this email, claiming that I wrote anything about you in the Rocky Mountain News or on the Rocky Mountain News' website only makes your position that much more precarious.
You are aware that sending out an email to multiple recipients constitutes "publishing" and that when these published comments include false and defamatory statements you are libeling me?
This story, as you well know, has nothing to do with the newspaper and contacting the paper is only a blatant attempt by you to try and bully me into not doing my job.
It won't work.
As for the debate. I believe Florian accepted your challenge and asked where and when and you said "mars." Although he no longer works for me, I'm sure he'd still be willing to debate you, barring space travel.
Thanks for your time and I await your comments for inclusion in the story.
Yours in God,
Brian

Some quick introductions. You've got me, most of my editors at the Rocky Mountain News, Dean from the San Jose Mercury News, Seth from the New York Times, Bray from the Globe, Dennis from Game Politics and many others.

What do we have in common? Why these lovely attack letters and nasty emails of course. Just count yourself lucky, at least you're not getting those flirty missives that Florian gets. OH JACK, stop. Brian Crecente

Dear Judge Friedman:

You had a fun day today doing what you do best: Holding forth about how much the Third District Court of Appeal admires you and calling me "two-faced." All in a day's work for you. It was hard to get a word in edgewise today, Your Honor, what with your calling yet another hearing that never happened and then summoning the "Sheriff's deputies" (we don't have a Sheriff in Miami-Dade County, but that's just a mere detail that a Judge can't be expected to know) to intimidate me into shutting up in your modern-day Star Chamber.

You summoned everyone to your feet today to announce you had filed a Bar complaint against me. Judge, get in line, baby. Take-Two's lawyers at Blank Rome were ahead of you on this. But feel honored. You're now part of a gathering that includes Howard Stern's lawyers and a gay rights lawyer who admits in court filings he does drugs illegally. I'm sure you're proud.

You went on at great length today, wasting everyone's time in your captive audience, professing your bewilderment about how I practice law. Here's a tip for you, Judge: I don't just practice law. I save lives from reckless jurists like you. I've sat with families whose loved ones are dead because of cowardly judges like you, whose family members were trained on violent video games to kill them. I have sat in jail cells with boys who killed people, trained to kill on murder simulators that you insist upon calling, even again today, "tapes that I reviewed." They're CD-ROM's, Judge, not that you would know or care. I serve those broken-hearted people, not arrogant tyrants like you.

In your little controlled world you can insulate yourself from all of this tragedy. You don't care about the body count out there, in Paducah, in Littleton, in Jonesboro, at Dawson College in Montreal, and even at Southwood Elementary School in Miami in which Michael Hernandez trained to kill on Take-Two's Grand Theft Auto game. You don't care about these broken hearts and shattered lives. You have your own ego to feed.

You smugly hold forth about the safety of a game that you lied about fully reviewing, that you promised to have a hearing on and did not, and that you greenlighted to be sold to ten-year-olds in America. Two national experts—one on the dangers of violent video games (Dr. David Walsh), and one in bullying (Dr. Barbara Coloroso) who have in the last few days warned Americans that Bully is indeed a Columbine simulation trainer. The head of all schools in Palm Beach County today warned parents about the game that you unleashed on their kids. But of course you know more about public school education than these life-time educators, right, Judge?

You don't care because you don't have a teen in a school as I do. You're in your cloistered office protected by people with guns enjoying the perks of feeding at the public trough, paid to call today what amounted to a press conference to crow about what a highly-regarded jurist you are. Here's a news flash, Judge: You're not as respected as you think you are by lawyers, because you have the touch of a blacksmith and the courtesy of a nightclub bouncer.

I am a lot of bad things, but I am not a liar. You are. You promised and ordered hearings that never occurred, and you even told the nation you reviewed a video game that you didn't even see but for 1% of it. You then came out before the cameras and pronounced the game perfectly safe. You're the kind of guy who would wave into an intersection a child to be run over by a semi.

I am looking forward to my judicial race against you, and win or lose, you are going to be exposed as the prevaricator and facilitator of violence and porn to kids that you are.

You will never agree to a debate in our race, because you can't control that situation. You won't have a "Sheriff" to shut me up. America is a great place where citizens get to cleanse the public dole of thugs like you. I'm looking forward to doing just that.

Regards, Jack Thompson