TORT REFORM, STICK A BORK IN IT

    In 1987 towards the end of his presidency, Ronald
Reagan wanted to make a conservative statement, and to do so, he
nominated Robert Bork to fill a Supreme Court vacancy.  Mr. Bork
was a man who regularly made conservative statements as well and wanted
to effect serious change on what he felt was an off course
America.  Among his foremost goals was to achieve tort reform, to
guard against greedy people suing for all they could get, deserving or
not.  He called these suits “expensive, capricious and
unpredictable”, basically the act of a real slime ball.

    Recently, such a suit appears to have been filed
against the Yale Club of NYC (by a Yale Alum) in fact, by a man who
fell while stepping off a podium in June of 2006.  The suit is for
a million dollars and could be a case in point for Mr. Bork’s argument
if the lowlife, we mean plaintiff, or well, both, was not Mr. Bork
himself.  The lesson:  a right wing ideologue trumpeting the
dangers of self serving greed should be taken seriously; it’s like a
great white warning that certain fish are carnivorous.