Pantless Pearson Pursues Payment

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Our very first douchebag, the Dishonorable Roy L. Pearson returned to the spotlight to prove yet again that once you’re a douchebag, you’re always a douchebag. The former Administrative judge returned to the courtroom to face dry cleaners Soo and Jin Chung, who have been battling Pearson over a missing pair of pants for three and a half years:

 

 

The $54 million lawsuit over a missing pair of pants was back in a D.C. courtroom Wednesday after the former judge who filed the lawsuit exercised his right to go to the appeals court in hopes of a different outcome. 

Soo and Jin Chung were back at the D.C. courthouse to continue to battle litigation filed by an angry dry cleaning customer over a misplaced pair of pants.  Former D.C. Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson failed to convince a lower court judge to award him $54 million for the missing trousers. 

“They’re ready for this to be over with,” said Christopher Manning, an attorney for the Chungs.  “They’ve lost two of their stores.  They’re now only in their one, original, small store.  It’s been a very difficult three and a half years, and it’s an episode they can’t wait to put behind them.” 

In D.C., all civil plaintiffs get the automatic right to appeal, so Roy Pearson tried to get his $54 million suit reinstated — this time before a jury rather than a judge.  Two of the three appeals judges noted aloud that Pearson could have had a jury trial if he simply had requested one in a timely manner. 

Pearson also argued that the dry cleaners defrauded him because they originally had posted a sign saying ‘satisfaction guaranteed’.  One of the appeals judges wondered aloud if that really meant ‘unconditional customer satisfaction’.

Alas, this isn’t the last we’ll see of Pearson. In another pressing case (we’ll call it Douchebag V. District of Columbia), the former judge is suing for his job back, along with $1 million in damages. That’s right – $1 million over a lost job, and $54 million over lost pants. Roy… are you telling us that your pants are worth more than your job?