Asshole judge lowers amount he's suing for (Follow-up)

[DPDarkPrimus]

A customer who believes he was mistreated by a dry cleaner has dropped the pants from his suit.

Roy L. Pearson, who filed a $67 million lawsuit against the dry cleaning business that lost his pants, has lowered his demand. Now, he's only asking for $54 million.

The District of Columbia administrative law judge first sued Custom Cleaners over a pair of pants that went missing two years ago. He was seeking about $65 million under the D.C. consumer protection act and almost $2 million in common law claims.

He is now focusing his claims on signs in the shop that have since been removed. The suit alleges that the three defendants, Jin Nam Chung, Soo Chung and their son, Ki Chung, committed fraud and misled consumers with signs that claimed "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and "Same Day Service."

But Chris Manning, the Chungs' attorney, says that can only be considered fraud if the signs were misleading to a "reasonable" person, and no reasonable person would interpret the signs to be an unconditional promise of satisfaction.

Manning says he doesn't expect Pearson to win any compensation when the trial starts June 11.

"I'm still baffled," Manning says, "unless it's simply to harass and annoy my clients."

Because Pearson is representing himself, the litigation has cost him nothing. "But what he's tried to do, it appears as a trial strategy, is to keep up his aggressive stance so he keeps costing the Chungs money," Manning says.

Pearson said he did not want to comment in light of the pending litigation.

The Chungs, immigrants from South Korea, are now facing tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees and emotional distress, Manning says. A donation Web site the Chungs set up for help - Custom Cleaners Defense Fund - has barely collected enough to pay a tenth of their costs, Manning says.

In the month since Pearson's lawsuit received wide publicity, national groups as well as blog comments have expressed shock at Pearson's demands and called for his ouster. Many blog comments say this kind of suit makes the American justice system look bad.

"We're by no means surprised at the outrage because we've been outraged the whole time," Manning said.

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[DPDarkPrimus]

I notice now that the article doesn't give any of the details like the first article posted, such as that the pants were found, but that stuff isn't necessary to know the judge is a fucking asshole.

[sketerpot]

Suing people just to run up their legal fees is bad enough, but suing poor-but-entrepreneurial South Korean immigrants? This guy is the lowest of the legal low.

Maybe he's a racist bastard, maybe he's a xenophobic bastard, or maybe he's just a bastard.

[JME2]

Christ almighty, this fucker is still at it?