Retired Judge Charles Blackmar once joked that he only read insurance policies carefully “if somebody is paying me to read them.” “I don’t read my own policy all that carefully because I know it wouldn’t do any good,” Blackmar said ...

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Common sense tells us that a worker with an irrational fear of heights isn’t qualified to hold a job that requires him to climb around highway bridges.

Still, a jury will have to listen to an acrophobic bridge worker’s tale in his lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT).

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Henry Kaczmarek v. Dave Rednour, Warden, (Flaum, J.), (Flaum, J., Rovner, J., Sykes, J. on panel)

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Hal Turner, the New Jersey Internet radio talk show host and blogger accused of threatening to kill three U.S. appeals court judges after they rendered a ruling upholding Chicago’s handgun ban, has pleaded not guilty. Turner entered his plea Tuesday ...

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President Barack Obama nominated David Hamilton, an Indiana federal district judge with bipartisan support, for a U.S. appeals court seat in the new administration’s first judicial appointment. Hamilton, 51, a former aide to then-Gov. Evan Bayh of Indiana, is a ...

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