The case of the frozen trucker sounds like a Conan Doyle mystery but it has become a focal point in Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings, to the surprise of the lawyers who faced off before the judge—and to the frustration of one of them.
“Would I have anticipated this last year? Of course not,” said Robert Fetter of Detroit’s Miller Cohen, who represented the truck driver in a suit over the lawfulness of his termination. “It’s just a strange set of circumstances that gets this case on the national radar.”
