Reuters reported today on the continuing lawsuit over a pair of pants.
A U.S. judge appealed his $54 million (27 million pounds) lawsuit on Tuesday against the dry-cleaning shop that misplaced his trousers, shrugging off legal setbacks and international ridicule.
Judge Roy Pearson filed a notice of appeal with the District of Columbia Superior Court, indicating that he won't abandon the crusade that has turned him into a symbol of America's lawsuit-happy legal culture.
Judge Pearson deserves worse than international ridicule, because it's as plain as the nose on an elephant's face that ridicule has no effect on the judge. Here's the background on the case:
Pearson asked his neighbourhood dry cleaners to pay him $1,150 when they misplaced a pair of trousers he brought in for a $10.50 alteration in May 2005. The owners of Custom Cleaners said they located the garment a few days later, but Pearson said the pair they offered him was not his.
Claiming that the shop's "satisfaction guaranteed" sign misled customers who, like him, were dissatisfied with their experience, Pearson sought $1,500 for every day that Custom Cleaners displayed the sign over a four-year period, multiplied by the three members of the Chung family, who owned the business.
He also sought $15,000 to rent a car to take his clothes to another cleaner for 10 years.
What a jerk! What a major jerk. Suing a mom and pop business $54 million over a lost pair of pants. The guy has no shame, that much is clear. It looks like the only thing that will stop him is for him to have his appeal thrown out and be instructed to reimburse the owners of the dry cleaners for every penny of their expenses and then some extra for the pain and suffering he caused them.
There is one possible silver lining in this case:
Pearson, meanwhile, could lose his job as an administrative judge for the District of Columbia, where he hears disputes involving the decisions of city government agencies.
The city has warned Pearson it might not reappoint him when his job comes up for review next month, according to The Washington Post.
Let's hope the DC government officials throw the guy out on his contemptuous, narcissistic ear.
2 comments:
I checked and Judge Pearson is an African American... And the Cleaners are Asian... And in light of the history that "those people" have with "those people"...
This law suit may qualify as a hate crime.
Oh, but hate crimes were made for white people, because everyone knows only white people are capable of hate. Certainly a vindictive, vicious African-American judge can't hate. No, the Asians don't have a case.
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