Someone Should Sue YOUR Pants Off!

War of Wits ^ | May 6, 2007 | Jayme Evans

[verbosevet]

Pearson is the plaintiff in a frivolous $65 million dollar lawsuit against Ji Nam Chung, Soo Chung, and Ki Chung, owners of Custom Cleaners in suburban Washington DC. The suit was brought by Pearson over a pair of his pants that apparently went missing when he sent them for cleaning. Pearson began his assault by asking the Chungs for $1,000.00 - the full price of the suit. The Chungs contended a week later that the pants had been found. They refused to pay, at which point Pearson brought forth his lawsuit.

The Chung's attorney, Chris Manning said that they made three settlement offers to Pearson - first $3,000.00, then $4,600.00, and finally $12,000.00, all of which were rejected.

Pearson contends that two signs in the Chung's business, "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and "Same Day Service", amount to fraud because of his dissatisfaction over his pants. As a consequence of this alleged "fraud", Pearson calculates that -according to DC consumer protection laws- at $1,500.00 per violation per day, the Chungs had 12 separate violations over 1,200 days times three people for 64.8 million dollars. Additionally, Pearson decided that since he no longer wanted to patronize his neighborhood dry cleaners, it was worth another $15,000.00, which he contends would be the cost to rent a car every weekend for 10 years to take his suits to another dry cleaners.

[verbosevet]

This judge belongs in prison. What more can be said?

[SteveMcKing]

The lawyer is new. Perhaps the judge is wisely allowing the jerk to make an @ss of himself for all-time.

[RonDog]

See also, from search Free Republic for "pants":

Judge sues cleaner for $65M over pants
	Posted by Brilliant On News/Activism 05/03/2007 4:51:04 AM PDT · 28 replies · 836+ views AP via Yahoo! ^ | 5/3/07 | LUBNA TAKRURI
The $67 Million Pants Washington, D.C., Lawyer Sues Dry Cleaners for Lost Trousers
	Posted by prophetic On News/Activism 05/02/2007 7:42:01 AM PDT · 6 replies · 855+ views ABC News ^ | 5/2/07 | By JIM AVILA, CHRIS FRANCESCANI & MARY HARRIS
The $67 Million Pants
	Posted by mcenedo On News/Activism 05/01/2007 7:56:56 PM PDT · 33 replies · 1,984+ views abcnews ^ | May 1, 2007 | JIM AVILA & MARY HARRIS
Lawyer's Price For Missing Pants: $65 Million
	Posted by zek157 On News/Activism 04/26/2007 9:09:32 AM PDT · 35 replies · 3,443+ views washington comPost ^ | Thursday, April 26, 2007 | Marc Fisher
Lawyer's Price For Missing Pants: $65 Million
	Posted by SmoothTalker On General/Chat 04/26/2007 6:51:42 AM PDT · 55 replies · 1,443+ views Washington Post ^

[gcruse]

I wouldn’t recommend linking to this blog. From his “terms of use” page —

“Websites linking War of Wits content on their own servers will be hunted down,...”

[Hot Tabasco]

Well I can't call Mr. Pearson a racist because he's black and the plaintiffs are Asian.

I saw a segment about this on FOX this morning and I guess the Chung's are thinking about closing up and moving back to Korea........

This Pearson guy is just plain disgusting........

[verbosevet]

I spoke to this guy before. He encourages links, but gets ticked when people cut & paste.

Thanks

[verbosevet]

His biography is gone from that website, so maybe he will be disbarred.

DISGUSTING!!

[gcruse]

“Well I can’t call Mr. Pearson a racist because he’s black and the plaintiffs are Asian.’

So the black rioters who singled out and destroyed Korean stores in South Central LA weren’t being racist? You may be right. When the Gestapo singled out and murdered Jews, it wasn’t called racism, either. How about ethnic cleansing? Hate crime? Maybe we need a new euphemism for destroying people from a position of power. How about Jim Crow?

[Jane Austen]

That man should be removed as a judge.

[TLI]

The Honorable Judge Pearson is the plaintiff in a frivolous $65 million dollar lawsuit

Former NLRB chief administrative law judge Melvin Welles wrote the Washington Post, urging that Pearson be immediately disbarred. Pearson may very well be on his way there. On Wednesday, Judge Pearson's biography page was active, but as of Saturday May 5th, 2007, his biography has been removed from the Office of Administrative Hearings website.

Nooooo kidding?

I hope this is a VERY rare instance. If this is the typical thought process for a judge it will not be very long before being a judge will be about as desirable as being a new hire for the Border Patrol.

[verbosevet]

That might very well happen...

[RonDog]

His biography is gone from that website...

Here is what apparently WAS posted there, from a previous thread:

http://oah.dc.gov/oah/cwp/view,A,3,Q,604474.asp

Biography
Roy L. Pearson, Jr.
Administrative Law Judge
 
Roy L. Pearson, Jr. began serving as an Administrative Law Judge for the District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings on May 2, 2005. Before his appointment he served for two years as a contract hearing examiner for the DC Office of Police Complaints.
 
Judge Pearson was an attorney with the Neighborhood Legal Services Program (“NLSP”) from July 1978 through July 2002; the last 13 years as the Assistant Director for Legal Operations. In the latter capacity Judge Pearson was responsible for training and supervising a legal and support staff of 20-60 persons in neighborhood offices throughout the District of Columbia. NLSP provides civil legal assistance to indigent residents of the District of Columbia. During his tenure with NLSP Judge Pearson obtained jury verdicts in excess of $1 million dollars in both the DC Superior Court and the US District Court for the District of Columbia. His landmark Superior Court verdict of $15.9 million for nine clients was settled, after partial reversal and remand, on confidential terms. 
 
Judge Pearson has been active in the Washington, DC community for decades and has served as counsel or board member for such organizations as the Columbia Heights Youth Club, the Fort Lincoln Civic Association, Inc., Black Seeds, Inc., the Washington Council of Lawyers, and the DC chapter of the National Council of Black Lawyers.
 
Judge Pearson earned his undergraduate degree from Lake Forest College. He earned his JD from Northwestern University School of Law. After graduation, he was first a graduate teaching fellow, and then assistant director, of a clinical program at the Georgetown University School of Law. The clinical program provided legal research, policy analysis and drafting assistance to committees of the Council of the District of Columbia, to the Mayor, and to various District of Columbia agencies. Judge Pearson has been a member of the District of Columbia Bar since 1978, and of the US Supreme Court Bar since 1985.

[TLI]

So the black rioters who singled out and destroyed Korean stores in South Central LA weren’t being racist?

That one has always bugged me. There should have been a truckload of very high profile cases regarding this issue, but there was nothing but buckets of iceing dumped over the situation.

[claudiustg]

Pearson is only trying to overcome his “cheap suit” steriotype. Give insanity a chance!

[verbosevet]

According to the bio, he was appointed in May 2005. The Suit was also brought in May 2005. Sounds to me like he spent his entire time on the bench (what little there was) going after the owners of this dry cleaners.

Losing his job is not enough. He belongs in prison.

[verbosevet]

So do I ...

[verbosevet]

LOL!

[Obie Wan]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm,remind me again how many future “lawyers and judges” the universities will be graduating over the next month. Question....when is a good thing too much of a good thing ???

[RonDog]

From The Marmot's Hole:

...It’s the 3rd most emailed story on Yahoo! News.

[RonDog]

Also from The Marmot's Hole:

...the Korean ambassador felt it necessary to apologize on behalf of ethnic Koreans worldwide for Virginia Tech, surely, an apologize from at least the foreign minister is due for the Chung family’s violation of all that is good and holy.

Pearson—sweet guy that he is—even went as far as to enlist neighbors and fellow customers in an effort to turn the case into a class action suit, but was thankfully denied.  The fact that neighbors and customers apparently agreed to join this travesty, however, is probably more damning than anything else.

The Family Chung is not very happy with the situation, to say the least:

“It’s not humorous, not funny and nobody would have thought that something like this would have happened,” Soo Chung told ABC News through an interpreter.

Her husband agreed.

“It’s affecting us first of all financially, because of all the lawyers’ fees,” Jin Chung said. “For two years, we’ve been paying lawyer fees. … We’ve gotten bad credit as well, and secondly, it’s been difficult mentally and physically because of the level of stress.”

Later, Soo Chung broke down in tears.

“I would have never thought it would have dragged on this long,” she told ABC News. “I don’t want to live here anymore. It’s been so difficult. I just want to go home, go back to Korea.”

Can you really blame her?

[verbosevet]

Waaaaayyy too much...

[verbosevet]

That’s because it resonates so loudly with the average person. This story exemplifies everything wrong with this country today. Thanks for the extra info, RonDog

[RonDog]

Check out THIS new website www.customcleanersdefensefund.com:

Welcome!

Jin Nam and Soo Chung thank you very much for your interest in their case. They are deeply touched by your kindness and support.

In response to the numerous calls and e-mails from people offering assistance, this fund has been created to help with their defense costs...

...The funds contributed through this website will be administered on behalf of the Chungs by a regional Washington D.C. certified public accounting firm...

Soo Chung and Jin Nam Chung at Custom Cleaners

Send a message to the Chungs

[Cvengr]

I would think it more appropriate to take the issue to small claims court, allow countersuit, but receive the final jurisdiction of the presiding judge in the small claims court. Even if the Judge refuses to submit to that judgment, the facts of that refusal could then be used as factual evidence before a higher court to not only dismiss the case but provide grounds for judge Pearson to be liable for causing undue harm to the Dry Cleaners. If found to be frivolous, the judge might also be exposed to other ethical charges mandating his removal from office and possible disbarment.

I’m not a lawyer, but I did stay near a holiday Inn Jr last night....

[RonDog]

:o)

[tioga]

-good grief. they offered him several times what the suit was worth and he didn’t take it? JERK

[afnamvet]

The Chungs should have the judge fitted for a postbellum carpetbagger’s suit. This judge violates the very essence of law.

[verbosevet]

Small claims would have been ENTIRELY appropriate in this case.

[verbosevet]

How about a straightjacket??

[Vision]

It’s strange how hard it is to find a picture of the judge.

[verbosevet]

Based on the recent coverage, I imagine there's quite a backlash. From what I heard, they are reconsidering his re-appointment.

This is one of the most blatant examples of judicial misconduct I have heard of in quite some time.

[NucSubs]

I think I will try and send the money to the directly. How do we know the accountant firm will not scam them?

[NucSubs]

As an American I am ashamed.

[NucSubs]

O’Reilly and Hannity must know about this by now no?