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NEW YORK (AP) - One-time U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork filed a $1 million lawsuit Thursday, saying injuries he suffered at the Yale Club of New York City have plagued him for a year.Lawyers for Bork, 80, said in the lawsuit that he suffered 'excruciating pain' and was largely immobile for months after he fell backward as he was about to speak at an event sponsored by the New Criterion magazine.Timothy Hill, a Yale Club spokesman, said the club had not yet received the lawsuit 'so we really have nothing to say at this time.'The lawsuit seeks more than $1 million in unspecified punitive damages and actual damages, including pain and suffering, medical treatment, lost work time and income.It accuses the club of 'wanton, willful and reckless disregard for the safety of its guests.'The Yale Club normally provides stairs between the floor and the raised platform but failed to do so at the June 6, 2006, event, according to the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan's U.S. District Court.'Because of the unreasonable height of the dais, without stairs or a handrail, Mr. Bork fell backward as he attempted to mount the dais, striking his left leg on the side of the dais and striking his head on the heat register,' the lawsuit said.Bork underwent surgery and physical therapy, the suit said, and he still limps and uses a cane.Bork served as a solicitor general and acting attorney general in the 1970s.As solicitor general in 1973, Bork drew criticism when he fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox on orders of then-President Nixon.From 1982 to 1988, he was a federal appeals judge in Washington. In 1987, the Senate denied President Reagan's nomination of Bork for the Supreme Court.Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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