Dry Cleaner Loses Man's Pants - Man Sues For $65 Million (Oh yeah, he is a Judge)

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When the neighborhood dry cleaner misplaced Roy Pearson's pants, he took action. He complained. He demanded compensation. And then he sued. Man, did he sue.

Two years, thousands of pages of legal documents and many hundreds of hours of investigative work later, Pearson is seeking to make Custom Cleaners pay -- would you believe more than the payroll of the entire Washington Nationals roster?

He says he deserves millions for the damages he suffered by not getting his pants back, for his litigation costs, for "mental suffering, inconvenience and discomfort," for the value of the time he has spent on the lawsuit, for leasing a car every weekend for 10 years and for a replacement suit, according to court papers.

Pearson is demanding $65,462,500. The original alteration work on the pants cost $10.50.

By the way, Pearson is a lawyer. Okay, you probably figured that. But get this: He's a judge, too -- an administrative law judge for the District of Columbia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/25/AR2007042502763.html

:wtf:

But a Google search shows that as late as 2002, the guy worked for Legal Aid, meaning that he's more likely to be a liberal than a conservative. Looks like he may have done some good work for people in his neighborhood by unearthing a 25-year-old fraud by the original developer.

Who can I sue?

Actually, I'm part of a class action law suit against some corporations who really did some serious damage. Law suits like this make me crazy! They trivialize the suffering of folks who really did suffer grave harm from unregulated enterprises.

I had forgotten that at least one of these came from my Motherinlaw and she probably paid more than that. I have no idea why someone would pay that much seeing as how I wear a suit about as often as someone dies or I go to church.