Posted on 09/19/2007 4:41:59 PM PDT by yorkie
First, they were sued by an administrative law judge for $54 million over a missing pair of pants, but the judge ruled in their favor. Now, the owners of the dry cleaning shop that was targeted in the lawsuit has closed its doors for good. Citing a loss of revenue and the emotional strain of the lawsuit, Soo Chung and her husband, Jin Nam Chung have closed the shop and will focus on another dry-cleaning store they still own, their attorney Chris Manning said. "This is a truly tragic example of how devastating frivolous litigation can be to the American people and to small businesses," Manning said in a statement. The Chungs faced more than two years of litigation after plaintiff Roy Pearson claimed they lost a pair of his pants and sued for $67 million under the District's strict consumer protection act.
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Again, I ask my question:
When is it time for citizens to take affairs into their own hands and mete out punishment according to moral laws?
What a great triumph of the utterly corrupt American lawyer industry.
And all serious candidates for President are lawyers. Some of them blatant sociopaths like Hillary and Silky Pony, but all lawyers.
Where, oh where, will reform and justice come from?
We HAVE to stop electing lawyers into office, period. These “people” are simply ruining society by exploiting a false system that normal people have no control over. It has to end.
Yes.
And loser pays.
Judge, not lawyer. Politician, not lawyer. Accountable to no one because ANOTHER judge refused to stop it.
“We HAVE to stop electing lawyers into office, period”
Worth Repeating.
Hey, isn’t that what lawsuits do? Put a productive enterprise out of business?
This is really sad.
The American Dream crushed.
Pearson proves my theory that some people just need tasering.
Having taking it in the shorts, so to speak, the Korean immigrants attracted widespread attention as a case of law suits run wild. They had to pay lawyers to defend themselves from a plaintiff that wouldn't accept even $12,000 to make his pants lawsuit go away. The Chungs received a whole lot of public support and financial contributions because it was so outrageous.
This lawsuit was even more ridiculous than the 1992 Stella Liebeck vs. McDonalds, where Mrs. Liebeck successfully sued McDonalds because she spilled hot coffee on herself.
Why these people had to endure this moron is beyond me. This case should have been laughed out of the courthouse when this idiot filed it, inste3ad these people had to spend months and thousands of dollars to defend this fraudulent suit. The bastard should be in jail.
The plaintiff judge who brought the suit got EXACTLY what he was really aiming at: the forced closing of the cleaners. He knew he would not get a $54 million settlement but he reasoned also that he could legally punish the couple with a campaign of publicity and a shystered way of focusing a bad light on good people. The couple cannot turn the tables on the judge because there is no legal framework even for what they went through, some justice!
Sad state of affairs.
No! some people need the hell beat out of them.
It's rather disturbing, because what if some idiot with an ambitious lawyer decides to sue you or me for any ridiculous reason? We would get the legal letters in the mail, and would have to pay our attorneys to try and settle the matter, no matter how innocent we are.
The old question has always been who benefits? In our justice system that answer is easy; it's the lawyers, and we have so many of them.
I wish they could countersue for a frivolous lawsuit and the loss of their business.
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