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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