The More You Know

Judge Robert H. Bork, Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law (UChicago, J.D.), is a former partner of Kirkland & Ellis, faculty member at Yale Law and D.C. Circuit Court appointee. Bork filed suit in June against the Yale Club, claiming damages for a fall that occurred while trying to give an impromptu speech on the club's dais. Ironically, Bork had been a proponent of tort reform.

To "bork" means to to have one's character assassinated; as in the treatment by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee of Supreme Court Justice nominee Bork back in the day. The Committee's investigation and interviewing of Bork is historically remembered as a political bloodbath.

Ave Maria School of Law, the law school Bork currently teaches at, was only recently founded as a school specializing neo-conservative, Roman Catholic and natural law philosophy. It is also chaired by the founder of Domino's Pizza. USSC Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas have been active in promoting the school and its mission statement.
Ave Maria School of Law will be moving to the newly planned town of Ave Maria (located near Naples, Florida) which will be opening in 2007. The Domino's founder and his partner have exclusive control of commercial real estate in the town.
The Domino's dude is reported to have said the commercial leases in the town would enforce beliefs consistent with the Catholic faith, including prohibiting the sale of pornography or contraceptives and banning the performing of abortions. However, after the ACLU threatened suit, the Domino's dude backed off his hard-line stance.

The developing community of Ave Maria threatens the existence of the endangered Florida Panther.

And now, you know.


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