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The Great American Pants Suit Heads to D.C. Court of Appeals

By Dan Slater

Soo Chung, left, and Jin Chung, represented by their lawyer Chris Manning, standing, who are being sued by D.C. judge Roy Pearson, right, June 13, 2007. (AP/Dana Verkouteren)

The Great American Pants Suit — the new benchmark for audacious litigation — will ooze to the surface again today. Roy Pearson, the former Washington, D.C. administrative law judge who sued his dry cleaner for $54 million over a pair of lost pants, takes his case to the D.C. Court of Appeals. Here’s an update from the AP.

Pearson brought the suit against Custom Cleaners more than three years ago. The case went to trial last year and a D.C. Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the South Korean immigrant owners, awarding Pearson nothing.

Law Blog readers might remember that in March Pearson inspired Barbara Robinson, a Democrat from Baltimore, to sponsor a bill in the Maryland legislature that would require dry cleaners in Maryland to pay customers for clothing they damaged. Robinson quickly learned that the bill might not be too popular with the Korean community.

Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on October 22, 2008 (boomark / email).