Judge Bork (tort reform advocate) sues Yale Club for 1M

[kskiska]

There's many a slip

What's that old joke about a conservative being a liberal who has been mugged?

Turn that on its head for this reading: A plaintiff is conservative icon Robert Bork after he has slipped and fallen.

The former federal judge gained widespread recognition when President Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1987 and Democrats reviled him as too right-wing for the republic's good. His defeat in a Senate vote made him even more of a hero to conservative Republicans.

Bork has embraced federal tort-law limitations as perhaps "constitutionally appropriate" to facilitate the free flow of commerce. But on June 6, he sought the protection of New York's tort laws, suing the Yale Club of New York for $1 million plus punitive damages because of his pain and suffering, medical bills and lost income from a 2006 fall.

Oh, the irony.

According to the suit, Bork hit his leg and head when he fell backward while trying to step onto a dais that didn't have steps or a handrail. He was at the Yale Club to speak at an event sponsored by The New Criterion magazine.

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http://www.star-telegram.com/225/story/135223.html

[MADem]

1. Old Cox-sacking Bork.

Hope it hurt when he fell on his ass. Hope he loses his suit, too.

Bit o'History, for those puzzled by my subject line (ah, sweet youth): Bork was the baaastid that actually fired Archibald Cox when Elliot Richardson refused Nixon's order to so do.

[spanone]

2. All these asswipes talk tort reform until it's their tort.

[shain from kane]

3. Good posture may have helped. That Slouching Toward Gomorrah is an awkward way to get around.