Marc Fisher has the best summary of today's arguments at the D.C. Court of Appeals. The good news for former administrative law judge Roy Pearson's epic, seemingly unending $54 million pants lawsuit, writes Fisher, is that the three judges hearing the appeal were "not buying Pearson's notion that a shop sign that promises 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' means that a merchant must honor any cockamamie demand that an unhappy customer might make." We probably won't have a......

Remember when we told you that Roy Pearson, he of the $54 million missing pants lawsuit, was refusing to fade away quietly and heading back to court to press his appeal? Well today's the big day! Looks like the AP has a reporter at the D.C. Court of Appeals, so we'll be waiting patiently to find out whether the three-judge appellate court panel could possibly agree to overturn the lower court ruling and order a......

That's right, kiddos. International superstar and former administrative law judge Roy Pearson is back! Last night WJLA reported that the infamous $54 million missing pants lawsuit has actually been granted an appeals hearing by a three-judge appellate court panel. Faithful readers must realize what a thrill it was for DCist to once again set our Google image search function to "pants" upon hearing the news. It's been more than a year since we last heard......

Does Roy Pearson not have anyone in his life, say a family member or a friend, to smack him upside the head and tell him to stop being so crazy? The Examiner and the Associated Press are both reporting this morning that Pearson, the man who sued the owners of Custom Cleaners for $54 million over a misplaced pair of pants and then subsequently lost his job as an administrative law judge, has filed suit......

If there's one local story from 2007 that Washington D.C. taxpayers are unlikely to forget, it's the saga of former administrative law judge Roy Pearson and his multi-million dollar pants lawsuit. The defendants in the lawsuit, the Chung family, were eventually forced to close their Custom Cleaners location in Northeast D.C., and they received an outpouring of support from the community as they sought to defend themselves against what was clearly a ridiculous lawsuit.......

It's been a long, frustrating, even humiliating journey together for tax paying D.C. residents, and a man named Roy Pearson. Yesterday, it all finally came to an end, so we thought it only fitting that we should pay tribute to the former administrative law judge who, through suing his dry cleaners first for $65 million over a lost pair of pants, then later $54 million, succeeded in driving international attention to D.C.'s legal system --......

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Happy Tuesday, Washington. The news broke early this morning that Judge Roy Pearson will reportedly lose his job, according to sources cited by the Post. Pearson, who infamously sued the owners of Custom Cleaners first for $65 million and then later for $54 million for misplacing a pair of his pants, is a District administrative law judge who has continued to draw a paycheck despite being taken off of his case work since the......

Good morning, Washington. What a difference a day makes, right? Just yesterday we were complaining bitterly about the heat and about when administrative law Judge Roy Pearson would finally be brought before the panel that will decide his fate for a hearing. But both problems have been resolved, as if by magic, while we slumbered. The current temperature outside is 57 degrees in our nation's capital, with an expected high of 66. And Judge......

Just when we has stopped thinking about Judge Roy Pearson and his humiliating $54 million pants law suit for a second, the Examiner steps forward to ask the most important question of all: Why on Earth is Pearson still collecting a paycheck? At the beginning of August, the panel that will ultimately decide Pearson's fate sent the beleaguered judge a letter letting him know his job was in jeopardy, but stopped short of actually firing......

The Chung family, owners of the dry cleaners at the center of the infamous $54 million pants lawsuit, has been forced to close their business. Northeast's Custom Cleaners was shuttered by the family as a result of revenue losses and the emotional toll exacted during the grueling 2-plus year lawsuit the family has endured at the hands of administrative law judge Roy Pearson. Chris Manning, the Chung's attorney, said in an emailed statement that the......

Roy Pearson, the famed Pants Judge, has just under a week to respond to the letter he received from his employers earlier this month informing him that his job was in jeopardy. Knowing Pearson as we now do, it seems likely the Office of Administrative Hearings, which has employed him as an administrative law judge for the District (Pearson is currently serving as an attorney adviser to the OAH while his contract is under review,......

In case you missed the update in the post from earlier today, Roy Pearson has this afternoon filed paperwork to the D.C. Court of Appeals indicating he intends to appeal the judge's decision in his $54 million civil lawsuit against Custom Cleaners. In June, D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruled in favor of the defendants, the Chung family, owners of Custom Cleaners, finding that "nothing in the law supports (the) position" that Pearson, an......

Ah, the Pearson Pants Saga. It's a story that will forever be inextricably linked with our memories of the summer of '07, and is, much like the season, thankfully not over yet. Administrative law judge Roy Pearson, who still has his job but has been officially notified by the panel that will decide his fate that he may soon be fired, has until Wednesday to file his notice of appeal in the $54 million law......

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That's the question a lot of outraged taxpayers in the District of Columbia have been wondering ever since we first heard about administrative law judge Roy Pearson's outrageous $54 million (then $65 million) law suit against the owners of Custom Cleaners for misplacing his favorite pair of pants. Just before his law suit became pun fodder for headline writers all over the world, the city's chief administrative law judge, Tyrone Butler, recommended approval of Pearson's......

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District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff summarily denied Judge Roy Pearson's motion to reconsider her June ruling against him in his $54 million law suit against Custom Cleaners. In an order filed Monday, Bartnoff said that the the plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration reargues matters that already were presented at trial, so since he makes no new argument, Pearson's request was denied. The Chung family and their attorney, Chris Manning, have said they expect......

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>> 7,000 fire hydrants down, 2,500 left to go. [WaPo] >> The Chung family of Custom Cleaners is now officially seeking $82,907.50 from Roy Pearson to pay their lawyers' fees in the $54 million pants lawsuit. [WTOP] >> A coyote was spotted near the National Cathedral. Keep your roadrunners and Acme TNT locked up tight. [Free Ride] >> A doorman's manifesto. [craigslist] Photo by erin*carly......

The Post's Marc Fisher has the goods on the continuing saga of administrative law judge Roy Pearson's crusade against the Chung family, owners of Custom Cleaners. Despite the recent ruling that Pearson's $54 million lawsuit against the Chungs, for misplacing a pair of the plaintiff's pants, had no legal merit, Pearson will soldier on. And he's doing it for you and me. Pearson told defense lawyer Christopher Manning that he planned to file an appeal......

D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff has ruled in favor of the defendants in the $54 million pants lawsuit. According to the ruling, the plaintiff, administrative law judge Roy Pearson, will get nothing from the defendants, the Chung family, owners of Custom Cleaners. The Chungs will also be awarded costs, and plan to seek compensation for attorneys fees. Bartnoff found that "nothing in the law supports (the) position" that Pearson took on the issue of......

If the results of our poll yesterday are any indication, ordinary people feel pretty strongly that administrative law Judge Roy Pearson is a few sandwiches short of a picnic, and really ought not to be a judge anymore. Finally, the Examiner brings word that Pearson's employer agrees with that sentiment. In a letter to the three-person commission that will decide whether Pearson gets reappointed, District of Columbia Chief Administrative Judge Tyrone T. Butler said Pearson......

The trial has finally ended, and Judge Judith Bartnoff said she would issue a decision next week in administrative law judge Roy Pearson's $54 million dollar suit against Custom Cleaners, but the Post's Marc Fisher reports that Bartnoff has already given a clue as to how she will likely rule. After listening to Pearson argue for hour upon hour that he was somehow protecting the interests of all Washingtonians by using the D.C. consumer protection......

The Roy Pearson Pants trial continues, and Marc Fisher does indeed have an entertaining post up about what's gone on so far today, including the introduction of The Pants in question: The dramatic moment in Courtroom 415 at D.C. Superior Court revealed that yes, the pants look like they are part of a suit, and yes, the dry cleaners attached to these pants a tag with the same numbers that appeared on the receipt Pearson......

Apparently traumatized by the memory of his long lost pants, administrative law Judge Roy Pearson began to cry while testifying in D.C. Superior Court yesterday afternoon. After calling several witnesses who testified that they stopped going to Custom Cleaners after having unsatisfactory business dealings with the shop, Pearson took the stand himself, and as he recounted the story of having the Chung family try to give him a pair of pants that were not his,......

The civil trial for D.C. administrative law judge Roy L. Pearson's lawsuit against local dry cleaning business Custom Cleaners, in which he's now asking for $54 million — as opposed to the original $67 million suit he filed in April — is underway right now at the at D.C. Superior Court. WTOP's Neal Augenstein reports that the courtroom is currently standing-room only. Pearson's original suit sought damages for the loss of his pants, as well......