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Title: Woman seeks damages from celebrity Bob Vila.(Courts)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: May 22, 2002
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: D8Distributed by Thompson Gale

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Byline: MATT COOPER The Register-Guard

Most people know Bob Vila as the home-improvement guy, the bearded host of his own television show and a genius with a tile saw.

But on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Eugene, he was portrayed as a "trouble-making celebrity" who injured a woman by repeatedly kicking her seat during a flight from Denver to Eugene in 1997.

Carol Berger, a local teacher and therapist who works with autistic children, sued Vila for what she called a battery that caused excruciating injuries to her lower back.