posted by TheDon
If a conservative is a Democrat who has been mugged, I guess a liberal is a Republican who has had a slip-and-fall. According to ACSBlog, Robert Bork joins the long list of "tort reform" advocates who want a little taste of the pain and suffering money.
$1 million, huh? His left leg must be priceless, because at MOST an injury to his head is worth $1.25.Judge Robert Bork, one of the fathers of the modern judicial conservative movement whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, is seeking $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages, after he slipped and fell at the Yale Club of New York City. Judge Bork was scheduled to give a speech at the club, but he fell when mounting the dais, and injured his head and left leg. He alleges that the Yale Club is liable for the $1m plus punitive damages because they "wantonly, willfully, and recklessly" failed to provide staging which he could climb safely.
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.
Bork was a PRICK then and he's a PRICK now. Why should Bork's letigious behavior surprise anyone? See the oh-so-cool and slender Paris Hilton completely lose her cool after being sentenced to jail? Whoa! The American justice system can't do that to one of our elite celebrity types! Who do we think we ARE? So why should Bork be handcuffed by our tort laws? Or George W. Bush by the Geneva Convention? Or being ON duty instead of AWOL? Can't Bush get an honorable discharge after having been dishonorable? After all, his daddy had political ambitions for his favorite son, and AWOL doesn't look good on a resume'. We see this royalty treatment all the time in America now. Send them all to the slammer!
ReplyDeleteYou know, if they can go back and give Adam Kokesh a dishonorable discharge for wearing his cammies (without insignia) to a war protest, maybe it is time to revisit W's discharge status. Talk about dishonorable!
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