Posted on 06/06/2007 10:14:59 AM PDT by freespirited
WASHINGTON - A judge who was seeking $67 million from a dry cleaners that lost his pants has loosened the belt on his lawsuit. Now, he's asking for only $54 million, according to a May 30 court filing in D.C. Superior Court.
Roy L. Pearson, a District of Columbia administrative law judge, first sued Custom Cleaners over a pair of pants that went missing two years ago. He was seeking about $65 million under the D.C. consumer protection act and almost $2 million in common law claims.
He is now focusing his claims on signs in the shop that have since been removed. The suit alleges that Jin Nam Chung, Soo Chung and Ki Chung committed fraud and misled consumers with signs that claimed "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and "Same Day Service."
But Chris Manning, the Chungs' attorney, says that can be considered fraud only if the signs misled a "reasonable" person. No reasonable person, he says, would interpret them to be an unconditional promise of satisfaction.
Pearson, who is representing himself, said in an e-mail that the focus of the case, from the start, was based on the "false, misleading and fraudulent advertisements displayed by the Chungs."
My satisfaction can be guaranteed for only $10 million.
“Satisfaction Guaranteed” means either no charge or compensation for the missing pants. It doesn’t mean you get tens of millions if you aren’t happy.
We’ve already established what you are, ma’am. Now we’re just haggling over the price. — GB Shaw
Did the lost pants contain a winning lottery ticket?
Mighty white of him /sarc
$54 million. Must have been nice pants.
I read somewhere that they actually returned the pants to him eventually - they just couldn’t find them for a long time - but by the time they returned them he’d already filed suit and refused to accept the pants.
They sell them for that much at Neiman Marcus :)
Oh! Were they green pants? I'm sure I saw his pants the other day.
They were in a Dr. Suess book I was reading: The Pale Green Pants With Nobody Inside them.
Those must be some superfly pants.
Why is this derranged bum still a judge?
According to court documents, the problem began in May 2005 when Pearson became a judge and brought several suits for alteration to Custom Cleaners in Northeast Washington, a place he patronized regularly despite previous disagreements with the Chungs. A pair of pants from one suit was not ready when he requested it two days later, and was deemed to be missing.
Pearson asked the cleaners for the full price of the suit: more than $1,000.
But a week later, the Chungs said the pants had been found and refused to pay. That's when Pearson decided to sue.
“Bon Pantalon!”
Not only disbarred, he should be removed from his judgeship and replaced.
A samarai is always cheaper than a lawyer. The judge better be careful. Those kung-fu guys can fly.
A week after that routine mishap -- pants go astray all the time at cleaners -- Soo Chung came up with gray trousers that she said were Pearson's. But when the judge said that he had dropped off pants with red and blue pinstripes, there was no joy in Fort Lincoln.....In a closet of a lawyer's office in downtown Washington, there is a pair of gray wool pants, waiting to be picked up by Roy Pearson. "We believe the pants are his," Manning says. "The tag matches his receipt."
Kinda makes you wonder how he ruled in the courtroom doesn’t it?
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I am in no way advocative violence against judges.
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