Robert Bork, former Harvard Professor, former U.S. Soliciter General, U. S. Court of Appeals judge, U. S. Supreme Court nominee (rejected), fellow at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, public scold, and, most importantly for our discussion, the sworn enemy of large tort recoveries by injured plaintiffs, especially punitive damages, has filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Yale Club of New York City, alleging wanton and reckless negligence on the latter's part which caused him permanent injuries to his leg. Bork fell off a dais from which he was to speak.

Bork is demanding actual and punitive damages. He must believe that he is exempt from following his own principles.

It reminds me of a fundamentalist preacher's hellfire and brimstone sermons that terrified his congregation with predictions of the end of the world until they discovered that he was planting trees around his house.

The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy has a short article on Bork's previous opposition to large personal injury judgments.

See also Blomberg.com, and Bork's paper on Congress's power to enact tort reform.

Bork is another "intellectual" darling of the right-wing whose writings and influence over the past 50 years helped make this nation, weaker, poorer, nastier and more divided than before. I once thought of exposing this conceited windbag with a book of the same title as this article, a parody of the title of Bork's Slouching Towards Gomorrah, but decided that it wasn't worth the time. Others have done an excellent job.