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Suing Their Pants Off: $54 Million over A Pair of Trousers
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by Jordan Yerman | June 9, 2007 at 02:47 pm
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This is a follow-up to a previous story, in which a lawsuit-happy judge sued a dry-cleaning shop for $65 million over a missing pair of trousers. Seems the plaintiff is relenting, but only just a bit. The attorney representing the cleaners stopped just shy of publicly calling Judge Roy Pearson an idiot; this article is a must-read for those who follow frivolous lawsuits.
You may remember Judge Roy "Fancy Pants" Pearson; he sued his Korean cleaners for $65 million after his pants were misplaced, claiming signs promising "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and "Same Day Service" constituted consumer fraud. Judge Fancy Pants has reconsidered his suit, and has reduced his demands to only $54 million.
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at 15:02 on June 9th, 2007
From the original article..."Chris Manning, the Chungs' attorney, says that can be considered fraud
only if the signs misled a "reasonable" person. No reasonable person,
he says, would interpret them to be an unconditional promise of
satisfaction."
Furthermore, what reasonable person sues for $54 million over a pair of pants?
at 18:07 on June 9th, 2007
Funny how the "justice system" works... I read about this before and I heard the owners of the dry cleaning business PAID him the total loss of his pants and he didn't care. So what's the $54 million "principle"?
PLEASE...