"These are not my pants," Pearson recalled telling Chung when she handed him a pair of gray pants with cuffs. "I have in my adult life, with one exception, never worn pants with cuffs." "And she said, 'These are your pants.' " Pearson paused. He struggled to breathe deeply. He could not continue. Pearson blurted a request for a break, stood up, turned around and walked out of the courtroom, tears dripping from his full and reddened eyes.
The time that he wore cuffs must have been one hell of an embarressing story!
"Your position," Bartnoff said to Pearson this morning, "is that 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' means they have to satisfy whatever you demand, with no limitations, absolutely unconditionally?"
"That's correct," Pearson replied.
"I have grave doubts about that," said the judge.
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It soon will be a crime in this Cajun-country town to let the waistband of your pants sag too low in public.
Mayor Carol Broussard has said he will sign an ordinance the town council approved this week setting penalties of up to six months in jail and a $500 fine for being caught in pants that show undergarments or certain parts of the body.
As I was reading the day 2 recap, I scrolled down and came across This
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David Cho, chief executive of Cornerstone, an apparel company in Seoul that distributes Kiton suits (an Italian designer), has offered to fly Pearson to Korea for a fitting, put him up at a hotel, and give him a free, $10,000 tailor made suit, if only Pearson will drop his case against the Chung family
"It was a long two days," she said. Speaking of the D.C. consumer protection law that Pearson is relying on to argue that he deserves $54 million because Custom Cleaners allegedly lost a pair of his pants, Bartnoff said: "This is a very important statue to protect consumers. It's also very important that statutes like this are not misused."
Draw your own conclusions, but if I were Roy Pearson, I'd stop shopping for new pants and start searching instead for a new tailor.
I wonder how many drycleaners in the DC area are going to clean this guy's pants after this has been in the news?
If I was the guy getting sued I'd be distributing pictures of this guy to all the other dry cleaners.
I'd put his pants on and drop my lunch in em if I was a drycleaner.
I mean does a satisfaction guaranteed sign neccessarily mean that the customer has to be satisfied, as a merchant I'd like to be satisfied by slapping around some customers once in a while.
"Yeah bozo, satisfaction guaranteed means my satisfaction"
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In an extremely cautious and detailed ruling, D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff this morning said that Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson deserves not a penny of the $67 million that he once demanded in compensation for a mixup at his neighborhood dry cleaners.
But astonishingly, Bartnoff said not a word in her decision about Pearson's handling of the case, or about the size of his demand, or about the bizarre scale of his legal assault on the immigrant family who own Custom Cleaners on Bladensburg Road NE.
Perhaps the judge didn't need to: She spoke with her actions instead, awarding the Chung family the costs of the case--an unusual move in a civil case in which each side would ordinarily be expected to pay their own costs.
Looks like a good decision. Although the reporter seems to think that the plaintiff will appeal the decision. Which is really a shame for the Laundry Mat owners. Hopefully when this is all done they will get fully compensated for their legal costs.
In an extremely cautious and detailed ruling, D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff this morning said that Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson deserves not a penny of the $67 million that he once demanded in compensation for a mixup at his neighborhood dry cleaners.
But astonishingly, Bartnoff said not a word in her decision about Pearson's handling of the case, or about the size of his demand, or about the bizarre scale of his legal assault on the immigrant family who own Custom Cleaners on Bladensburg Road NE.
Perhaps the judge didn't need to: She spoke with her actions instead, awarding the Chung family the costs of the case--an unusual move in a civil case in which each side would ordinarily be expected to pay their own costs.
Looks like a good decision. Although the reporter seems to think that the plaintiff will appeal the decision. Which is really a shame for the Laundry Mat owners. Hopefully when this is all done they will get fully compensated for their legal costs.
The judge was right not to use the moment to comment on "the bizarre scale of the legal assault."
In keeping it on a professional level, she'll probably reduce the ability of the accuser to contest her decision and, in the end, ensure the right thing is done.
Giving the Chung's their legal costs is all the statement that needs to be made about the frivolous nature of this . . . . . that's somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000 as well if I recall correctly.
Hopefully, the accusing judge eventually faces review and loses his position over this.
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