GTA Controversy...

[Babylon's Pride]

In 2007, Jack Thompson, a Florida lawyer who had previously campaigned against other Grand Theft Auto Thompson responded by filing a games, stated he would take various measures to prevent the sale of the game by Rockstar to minors.[66] On 14 March 2007, Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, filed a lawsuit[67] against Thompson in Florida in an attempt to pre-emptively block him from trying to declare its games a public nuisance. It would be a crime to sell games declared to be a public nuisance, effectively banning such games, which they believe would be a violation of First Amendment rights. Thompson responded by filing a counter-suit, accusing Take-Two of violating federal RICO statutes (the charge was later dropped), committing perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiring against him with third parties to deprive him of his civil rights.


On 20 April 2007, both parties reached a settlement and agreed to drop their respective lawsuits.