More on Bork v. Yale Club
Eric Turkewitz, a New York personal injury attorney, offers ten pieces of advice to the authors of a "error-riddled Complaint" alleging Judge Bork is entitled to $1,000,000 plus punitive damages and attorneys fees after he slipped and fell during a speaking engagement. Here's a taste:
2. Do not make a claim for future lost speaking fees, unless they are huge. If you do, your prior writings and statements on tort reform may become relevant to show that your stock as a speaker to conservative groups has been devalued as a result of the appearance of hypocrisy in filing a suit with some meritless claims thrown in to the mix. The man-on-the-street may well remember you as a SCOTUS nominee, but they surely don't know of what you have written. You don't want them to know either, because some of the claims in your federal complaint can't be justified under any legal theory. And that makes you, as a former big-shot judge, look bad. And you are not in a position to simply blame your lawyers for having made so many errors.
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