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Wild Bill
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Ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 4, 2007 - 03:00pm PT
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D.C. Judge Wants $65 Million for Lost Pants
Panel Considers Reappointing Judge Roy L. Pearson Jr.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2007/05/dc_judge_wants_65_million_for.html
Talk About Being Taken to the Cleaners (AP) It began innocently enough. A dry cleaner losing a pair of pants, an enraged customer seeking justice... just like that episode of Seinfeld. We've all been there, we've all wanted revenge, but what can we do? What indeed. Unfortunately for the Chungs, owners of Custom Cleaners in Northeast Washington, this pair of misplaced pants belonged to Judge Roy L. Pearson Jr., who unleashed an avalanche of legal absurdity so perverse Kafka would blush.
The administrative judge -- whose job, mind you, entails determining civil infractions and penalties -- claimed that he deserves $65,462,500 in damages for the "mental suffering, inconvenience and discomfort" caused by the loss of his suit pants. To put that figure in some perspective, at his current salary, it would take Judge Pearson just under 650 years to earn that kind of cash.
Despite his seemingly ridiculous claim, because of Washington's bizarre consumer protection laws, Pearson has been able to stretch his trouser-tort out for a couple years now, costing the Chungs many sleepless nights and thousands of dollars in legal fees. Their plight has been so vexing that they even offered him $12,000 to settle, and for the record his suit including the jacket, which wasn't lost, had a value of only $1,100. But still he refused. Now broke and "disenchanted," the Chungs are considering moving back to Seoul, their American dream throttled by American litigation.
Now if there was any justice, a person like Pearson would be disbarred for his actions, but as irony would have it a "panel of four D.C. officials" is currently assessing whether he will be reappointed to another 10-year term. That means Pearson could actually spend another decade on the bench, handing down decisions and determining justice. Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. The only thing crazier than keeping him on the bench would be appointing oil executives to run the Environmental Protection Agency... oh wait.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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I heard about this story too. Outrageous is an understatement. The dude is less than a worm. Gives the human race a bad name.
Edit: "Mental suffering and discomfort"...bwaaa, sniff. I hope somebody kicks this pansy-ass judges ass. How do you justify that much 'suffering' over a pair of fuking pants!!!!RIDICULOUS!!!
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HighDesertDJ
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Arid-zona
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I'm all for smacking around people who don't take responsibility for their mistakes but this guy definitely took it about $64,998,000 too far.
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L
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NoName City and It Don't Look Pretty
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I read stuff like this and think...er...I...well...I mean...I don't know what to think. We have a legal system that supports this type of insanity?
No, wait a minute...it's a joke, right? You got it off of Glen Beck's Comedy Hour, right? Right, WB? Eh?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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The blogosphere is aflame with this story. Will that help to fix things? Stay tuned.
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mtnyoung
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Twain Harte, California
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What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 80?
"Your honor."
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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He might be blaming them to cover up the fact that he left them at his mistress' house.
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