YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS BUT IT IS A TRUE CASE FROM WASHINGTON D.C.
"MAN SUES CLEANERS FOR MILLIONS FOR LOSING HIS PANTS?!"
THIS NUT JOB IS ALSO A JUDGE?
WHEN SOMEONE FILES A SUTE LIKE THIS HE SHOULD BE MADE NOT ONLY TO PAY FOR THE CLEANERS TIME BUT THE COST OF LOSING HIS BUSINESS AND LAWYERS FEES! OUR COURTS ARE TIED UP ENOUGH TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO SUE ANOTHER PERSON OVER SOMETHING LIKE A PAIR OF PANTS
SHAME ON THIS COURT FOR ALLOWING SUCH A CASE! SHAME ON THIS PERSON FOR SUING WHEN HE IS A JUDGE??
IT MAKES ME QUITE ANGRY THAT THE COURT EVEN ALLOWED THIS IN I UNDERSTAND THAT THE CLEANER HAS LOST A LOT OF MONEY TO DEFEND HIMSELF IN THIS CASE. HE IS A WORKING SLOB TRING TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY
OUR COURTS MUST CHANGE TO FREE IT UP FROM CASES LIKE THIS! I BELIEVE THAT NOT ONLY SHOULD THIS GUY PAY ALL LAWYER FEES, BUT TO BE FINED FOR BRINGING SUCH A STUPID CASE TO COURT AND ALSO IN THIS CASE HE SHOULD BE FIRED AND BANNED FROM SERVING ON ANY JURY, COURT, ECT
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
IF YOU WERE A JUDGE WOULD YOU ALLOW
THIS CASE IN?
OR DISMISS IT AS BEING GROUNDLESS
YOUR FRIEND,
MAN MOUNTAIN DEAN
HERE IS THE STORY FROM www.msnbc.com
Judge presses $54 million suit for lost pants
Peeved D.C. customer says dry cleaners violated consumer-protection laws
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Video Judge wants $54 million for lost pants
June 12: A Washington, D.C., judge is in court seeking $54 million from a dry cleaning business, claiming the shop violated consumer-protection laws when it lost his pants. MSNBC's Amy Robach and legal analyst Susan Filan talk about the case.
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OK, OK — make it $54 million for the pants
Opening Statements Delivered In Lawsuit Against Dry Cleaner
June 12, 2007
WASHINGTON - A judge pressed a $54 million lawsuit Tuesday against a dry cleaning shop that he said violated consumer-protection laws when it lost his pants.
Roy L. Pearson, an administrative judge for the District of Columbia, told a local court that Custom Cleaners should pay the sum because a “satisfaction guaranteed” sign deceived consumers who, like him, were dissatisfied with their experience.
“You will search the records of the District of Columbia courts in vain for a case of more egregious or willful misconduct,” Pearson told Judge Judith Bartnoff.
The lawyer for the Korean immigrants who run the dry cleaner said Pearson was looking for a way to resolve his financial difficulties after a divorce.
“It’s simply a frivolous lawsuit brought by an unhappy customer with a bone to pick,” attorney Chris Manning said.
Pearson filed suit after the cleaners lost his pants in 2005. Jin Chung, Soo Chung and Ki Chung said they located the pants a few days later, but Pearson said they were not his.
Judge reduced his claim
Pearson counted 12 separate violations of a consumer-protection law over 1,200 days, multiplied by the three defendants. At $1,500 per day, that is $65 million.
He also seeks $15,000 to rent a car to take his clothes to another cleaner for the next 10 years, among other charges.
He has rejected several settlement offers.
Pearson has since reduced his claim to $54 million.
The Chungs, who immigrated from South Korea in 1992, have grown disillusioned with the United States and might return to their native country, Manning said.
The case, expected to conclude on Wednesday, has attracted attention as an example of over-litigiousness in the United States.
The Washington Post questioned whether Pearson should remain in his job hearing cases involving the decisions of D.C. government agencies.
“The case raises serious questions about his judgment and temperament,” the newspaper wrote in an editorial.
