Jack Thompson Files $1M Harassment Lawsuit Against Florida Bar

April 13, 2006 at 5:32 pm - by Dale Dietrich

Categories: "Inside Baseball" • Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson has filed a $1,000,000 harassment lawsuit against the Florida Bar. Specifically, in this complaint, Thompson alleges that: (i) the Florida Bar has participated in a civil conspiracy, collaborating with complainants who have filed SLAPP bar complaints against him to shut him up; and (ii) Rule 4-8.4(d) of the Florida Rules of Professional Conduct, as interpreted by the Florida Bar, impinge on his First Amendment Freedom of Speech rights. Thompson had previously claimed in a letter to the the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida that: “The Florida Bar and its agents have engaged in a documented pattern of this illegal activity, which may sink to the level of criminal racketeering activity, in a knowing and illegal effort to chill my federal First Amendment rights“.

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