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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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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