Louisiana's taxpayers have to pay the $91,000 in legal fees thanks to the bill Jack Thompson helped to pass in June of 2006.

A U.S. District Judge, James Brady, ruled today that the bill Jack Thompson helped draft and passed back in June 2006 was unconstitutional and as a result, Louisiana's taxpayers have to pay the $91,000 in legal fees incurred to the ESA (Electronics Software Association). The judge also added to his dismay:


The court is dumbfounded that the attorney general and the state are in the position of having to pay taxpayer money as attorneys fees and costs in this lawsuit. The act which this court found unconstitutional passed through committees in both the State House and Senate, and to be promptly signed by the Governor...

Prior to the passage of the Act there were a number of reported cases from a number of jurisdictions which held similar statutes to be unconstitutional (and in which the defendant was ordered to pay substantial attorney's fees). The Court wonders why nobody objected to the enactment of this statute. In this court's view the taxpayers deserve more from their elected officials.


This adds to the list of Thompson's growing failures this week after the events of yesterday's tragedy in which he tried to link the shootings at Virginia Tech video games. Yet, as a man who is familiar beyond the basics of politics, he never once mentioned as a contributing factor that Virginia happens to be headquarters of one of the most influential lobbies in America (the NRA) and is therefore the state with the most relaxed gun laws.

madtown via kotaku.com »