According to GamePolitics.com, Jack Thompson is currently facing Contempt of Court charges in Florida.

Basically, prior to the release of Take Two's newest game Bully, Jack demanded in Miami-Dade Circuit Court for Bully to be viewed prior to its release, and its release to be restricted or even prohibited by the court.

Judge Ronald Friedman took the unprecedented step of demanding Take Two produce footage of the game for viewing in closed session. Mind you, civil liberties people would be up in arms if a court demanded a movie or book pre-release for possible restriction.

Despite the request not being entirely proper (for example, it was not properly bonded because the game would have released in the time that was taken), Take Two produced footage, but requested a Gag Order related to the closed session, which Judge Friedman granted. After the session, Judge Friedman announced that while he found the game inappropriate for his own children, there were things on television just as bad or worse, so there was no valid reason to restrict it.

Jack went into full on temper tantrum mode (breaking his promise to accept it should he be ruled against), filing several "emergency appeals" which allegedly directly cited things from that closed session, and thus allegedly violated the gag order, which would comprise indirect contempt of court. Jack could face jail time, but fine and censure is more likely.

Jack's response to this has been essentially wild threats. And it's even more complicated.

After Friedman ruled against him, Jack announced that he was going to run against him for his judgeship when Friedman is up for re-election in 2008, and as a result is now demanding that Friedman has to recuse himself.

Jack could be facing a "show cause" hearing as early as today. A "show cause" hearing is where Jack is informed a complaint has been registered against him and that he must show cause why it shouldn't be acted on.

Today was also the day he gave to the ESRB as a deadline to re-rate Bully as an M (as opposed to its current rating of T) or face a lawsuit, basically based on his claim that he had ONE "hardcore gamer" willing to testify that all these bad things Jack claimed to be in the game were in the game and that Take Two lied to Judge Friedman. The ESRB has yet to comment.