Posted on 06/17/2007 12:45:46 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Pants lawsuit could cost D.C. judge his $100,000 job
Jun 15, 2007 3:00 AM (2 days ago)
by Scott McCabe and Dan Genz, The Examiner
(AP)
Administrative law judge Roy Pearson leaves court after the second day of his trial in Washington on Wednesday. Jin and Soo Chung are being sued by Pearson for $54 million for what he calls "misleading signage" at their dry-cleaning business. WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The boss of Roy L. Pearson Jr., the administrative law judge whose $54 million pants lawsuit has turned the D.C. legal system into a punch line on late-night talk shows, has recommended that the city deny Pearson another term on the bench, D.C. government sources said Thursday.
In a letter to the three-person commission that will decide whether Pearson gets reappointed, District of Columbia Chief Administrative Judge Tyrone T. Butler said Pearson does not deserve a 10-year term to the post, which pays more than $100,000 a year.
My sense is that the commission will not reappoint him, a D.C. government source said.
Butlers letter reverses his previous recommendation in support of Pearson that he sent to the commission before the pants suit case gained worldwide notoriety.
Butler would not comment on his recommendation, according to his office.
Administrative judges preside over disputes between a government agency and people bringing complaints against the agency.
Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff said she would rule on Pearsons lawsuit by next week. Pearson broke down on the stand twice trying to describe the day he learned that he would never see his pants again. He has requested $500,000 in legal fees for the 1,400 hours he says he put into the case. A friend testified that Pearson had no life outside the office because he was consumed with the case, working nights and weekends.
Pearson has had a history of doggedly pursuing legal matters.
Before he became a D.C. judge two years ago, Pearson was unemployed after working as legal aid attorney for 24 years. He worked on one tenant lawsuit for 18 years, appealing the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
His former boss once called him the best attorney he ever hired, but their relationship soured and Pearson quit in 2002.
In 2005, in his divorce suit, Virginia courts ordered him to pay his ex-wife, also a lawyer, $12,000 for creating unnecessary litigation and threatening her and her attorney with disbarment.
At the time of the ruling, he had no steady job, no bank account and less than $2,000 in cash.
Professional courtesy,
there are some things you would do to a lawyer but not to a lab rat
Sharks although have been around for thousands of years unlike lawyers, sharks server a purpose
Only a fool would spend millions of dollars on a 180K a year job.
and only fools will continually reelect afore mentioned fools.
I did not say that it did.
I indicated that it is typical of something the “Justice Brothers: JJ and Al would pull. They spend their lives scamming.
At the very least, the man has a personality disorder (e.g., obsessive-compulsive). There are often mentally ill people who come to the attention of the public, but the State cannot act. The eventual results can range from mass murder to this sort of thing.
IMO, We are becoming a society increasingly unable to protect itself.
That sounds like a deadly mistake. It only encouraged him. He would have regarded it as a confession of judgement.
The guy is crazy as a sh*thouse rat, and should have been committed long ago.
In my pipedream of tort reform, it would depend on the lawyer-client relationship. In a contingency fee arrangement, the lawyer and client are essentially partners and should be jointly and severably liable. If the attorney has been hired strictly on a fee for service basis, the client would bear the primary responsibility.
Must have been one hell of a pair of pants.
He found someone he could bully in the Korean couple, and has made their life miserable.
I don't feel sorry for him, I despise him.
I really should have put “merit” in quotes...
Uhhhh . . .
how to safely talk about . . .
lost marbles
cranial rocks
loose screws
. . .
Just another DC CRACKED UP AA Public Servant.
So will the Chungs be reimbursed for all their legal bills? Can they go after Judge Trousers to pay all costs?
We can pretend it does not.
We can quietly wonder if race played a role in making an unemployed legal aid lawyer a judge?
We can quietly wonder if race played a role in suing the couple because the were Korean. That he may never would of considered a lawsuit against a black couple?
I did not know the Judge was African-American until I came upon this thread. I had all ready decided that I hated the guy for a frivolous law suit. When I saw his picture, the circle was completed, and I was reminded of the Rodney King riots in L.A. Maybe I am wrong, for having such thoughts.
What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of BELOW 50?
More aptly defines the requirement don’t youy think?
I was wondering if the guy was married. It seems as though the guy loves torrmenting people via the court system.
Throw the lawsuit out and then throw the bum out of his cushy job.
I wonder why he got divorced. I could see this clown suing his wife for mental distress caused by “dust on the refrigerator”.
He sould also sue his current cleaners, his lapels are lumpy.
If I posted my pipe dreams about lawyers I would get banned.
LOL
I think it is criminal to abuse the court system like this and to try to "legally" rob people of all they own and then some. Anyone who would do something like that is just plain evil.
From 1978 to 2002, Pearson was the attourney for the Washington Neighborhood Legal Services Program, serving as the Assistant Director for Legal Operations from 1989 onwards. From 2003 to 2005, he was a contract hearing examiner for the Office of Police Complaints, and on May 2nd, 2005, Pearson was appointed as an administrative law judge for Washington D.C. (kind of stagnated on his way to the Supreme Court now hasn’t he?)
Accusations of Corruption
In 2004 Mr. Pearson was accused of corruption for giving his son’s girlfriend a city job - after which it was revealed Mr. Pearson was actually sleeping with his son’s girlfriend on regular occasion. During his tenure as an administrative judge for Washington DC he was accused of smoking crack cocaine in the courthouse washroom, an accusation supported by camera video that later went “missing” from the evidence room Mr. Pearson had access to himself.
http://www.shoutpost.com/read/witqueen/9684/suing-your-way-to-the-american-dream
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