Judge’s Million Dollar Pants Saga Ends
Remember my posts about Judge Roy “frivolous lawsuit” Pearson? The now infamous DC Administrative Judge that filed a $76 million law suit against a DC dry cleaners for losing his pants? Well, he lost more than just his pants.
After the pants in question came up missing when he tried to pick them up at the dry cleaners, he filed a lawsuit for $1,000 to cover the cost of the lost pants, which were half of a business suit. At one point, the cleaners later found a pair of pants that they claimed were Pearson’s missing pair, but the judge asserted they were not his missing pants. He then upped his lawsuit from $1,000 to $67 million, which included $2 million for discomfort, inconvenience and mental distress. He later lowered the amount to $54 million.
At one point, the dry cleaners offered Pearson $12 grand to settle the case, which for some reason, he rejected. The lawsuit was eventually thrown out, only after considerable cost to the dry cleaners, which forced them to close one of their stores due to their growing legal bills.
After a DC judicial board voted against reappointing Pearson to the bench, he discovered that he lost a bit more then just a pair of pants. On Wednesday, he had his last day as an Administrative Judge working for DC. I wonder if we’ll see another lawsuit from him, this time for wrongful termination.
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May 9, 2008 at 1:00 pm
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