Judicial Candidate Rejected for Bad Temper

A bit of advice for anyone seeking employment as a workers' compensation judge in Missouri: Don't get offended when asked to state your qualifications. An applicant who did was passed over for selection twice, prompting him to sue the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for age and gender discrimination. The Western District Court of Appeals this week decided that the man's temper -- and not his age -- was the reason he didn't get hired. John Igoe sued after being passed over twice for openings on the workers' compensation court in the late 1990s. Igoe was 63 ...