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Jun 09, 2016

Trousers Judge Facing Disciplinary Action Nearly A Decade After ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ Suit

A hearing committee for the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility found that Roy Pearson committed two ethics violations.

Mar 03, 2009

Chung Lawyer on Pearson: Only Option Left is SCOTUS

In case you missed yesterday’s late-breaking news, the D.C. Court of Appeals unanimously denied Roy Pearson’s petition hear his appeal for a second time. A three-judge panel previously rejected Pearson’s first appeal of his epic $54 million lawsuit against the Chung family-owned dry cleaner over a missing pair of pants. The latest decision found six judges all agreeing with the previous ruling. In a release to the press this morning, Chung family lawyer Christopher…

Jan 06, 2009

Roy Pearson Won’t Go Away

You have just got to be friggin’ kidding me. The Associated Press is reporting that former administrative law judge Roy Pearson has filed a petition with the D.C. Court of Appeals requesting that his $54 million pants lawsuit case be reheard again, this time by a nine-judge panel. Three appellate judges ruled last month that Pearson’s lawsuit had no merit. Pearson is now arguing that those judges failed to address all the issues in…

Dec 18, 2008

Roy Pearson Loses His Pants Appeal

Say farewell to former administrative law judge Roy Pearson. Again. The D.C. Court of Appeals has rejected Pearson’s appeal of the $54 million lawsuit he filed over a misplaced pair of pants, WTOP is reporting. From the ruling: Appellant failed to establish either that the Chungs’ “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Same Day Service” signs constituted false or misleading statements, or that they lost his pants. Thus, the judgment for the Chungs on the fraud and CPPA…

Oct 22, 2008

Pants Appeal Update

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…

Oct 22, 2008

Pants Lawsuit Back in Court

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…

Sep 11, 2008

Are You Ready for More Pants?

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…

May 06, 2008

Roy Pearson Sues for $1 Million and His Job Back

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…

Jan 04, 2008

Chungs Featured in Legal Reform Campaign

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….

Oct 31, 2007

Say Goodbye to Pants Judge Roy Pearson

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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