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(Hilarious. Hypocrisy at its finest. - promoted by David)
File under hypocrite.
Judge Robert Bork filed a personal injury action and is seeking a million dollars in compensatory damages PLUS punitive damages from a fall at the Yale Club where he was scheduled to speak. The WSJ Law Blog noted the details:
According to the suit filed in federal court in Manhattan, the club failed to provide steps and a handrail to climb onto the dais. Bork fell backward as he was attempting to climb the dais, striking his leg on the stage and his head on a heat register, the suit says.
The actual complaint here. The ACSBlog quotes an article written by Bork in 2002:
Judge Bork has been a leading advocate of restricting plaintiffs' ability to recover through tort law. In a 2002 article published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy--the official journal of the Federalist Society--Bork argued that frivolous claims and excessive punitive damage awards have caused the Constitution to evolve into a document which would allow Congress to enact tort reforms that would have been unconstitutional at the framing:
State tort law today is different in kind from the state tort law known to the generation of the Framers. The present tort system poses dangers to interstate commerce not unlike those faced under the Articles of Confederation. Even if Congress would not, in 1789, have had the power to displace state tort law, the nature of the problem has changed so dramatically as to bring the problem within the scope of the power granted to Congress. Accordingly, proposals, such as placing limits or caps on punitive damages, or eliminating joint or strict liability, which may once have been clearly understood as beyond Congress's power, may now be constitutionally appropriate.
There is no truth to the rumor that the law offices of Jim Sokolove will represent judge Bork.
