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May 6, 2008

Clerk: Stroke shouldn't affect Judge Lageuex' caseload

PROVIDENCE -- Despite suffering a minor stroke last week, Senior U.S. District Judge Ronald R. Lagueux is expected to continue handling cases such as a lawsuit alleging widespread abuse of children in state foster care and litigation stemming from The Station nightclub fire, a court official said today.

“At this point, it doesn’t appear it will have an impact on his caseload,” Clerk of the Court David A. DiMarzio said. “If it does, we will notify counsel.”

Lagueux suffered a minor stroke on Thursday and is now “resting comfortably” at home, DiMarzio said. “We were very, very lucky that it was a minor stroke,” he said. “He appears to be making a full recovery.”

Lagueux, 76, of East Providence, was appointed to the U.S. District Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 after serving 18 years on the Rhode Island Superior Court. In November 2001, he went into semiretirement, assuming “senior status,” but he has continued to handle high-profile cases such as the civil cases stemming from the West Warwick nightclub fire, which claimed 100 lives in February 2003.

-- Journal staff writer Edward Fitzpatrick

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