PROVIDENCE, R.I.—A federal judge in Rhode Island is recovering after a minor stroke.
The U.S. District Court in Rhode Island says Senior U.S. District Judge Ronald Lagueux (lah-GUR') had the stroke on Thursday but is expected to make a full recovery.
Lagueux was appointed to the federal bench in 1986. Before that, he was a Superior Court judge.
Lagueux went into semiretirement in 2001, but has continued to hear cases. Among them are the lawsuits stemming from the 2003 Station nightclub fire.
Lagueux had a well-publicized tiff with Harvard law professor and Claus von Bulow lawyer Alan Dershowitz after Dershowitz castigated the Rhode Island judicial system in the 1986 book about von Bulow's trial, "Reversal of Fortune." Lagueux was so angered that he barred Dershowitz from his courtroom.
