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Former Judge Loses $67 Mil. Pants Case

By Glen Ashman

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A title="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202426869941" style="FONT: bold 14px Verdana; COLOR: #18359d" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202426869941" target="_blank"Former Judge Loses $67 Million Pants Case/ABR /FONT face="verdana,helvetica" size="2"SPAN style="FONT: 11px verdana"Legal Times/SPAN/FONTBR /BR /FONT face="verdana,helvetica" size="2"SPAN style="FONT: 11px verdana"Former administrative judge Roy Pearson?s infamous $67 million pants case has finally ended, and according to a ruling handed down Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the pants are hardly worth that sum. The opinion marks the conclusion of a lawsuit filed more than three years ago when Pearson sued the owners of now-defunct Custom Cleaners in 2005 for $54 million, for losing a pair of pants he dropped off for dry cleaning./SPAN/FONT

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on December 20, 2008 (boomark / email).

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