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Posted on 05-03-07 9:28 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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i found this pretty interesting :Read ..yahoo.

WASHINGTON - The Chungs, immigrants from
South Korea, realized their American dream when they opened their dry-cleaning business seven years ago in the nation's capital. For the past two years, however, they've been dealing with the nightmare of litigation: a $65 million lawsuit over a pair of missing pants.

Jin Nam Chung, Ki Chung and their son, Soo Chung, are so disheartened that they're considering moving back to Seoul, said their attorney, Chris Manning, who spoke on their behalf.

"They're out a lot of money, but more importantly, incredibly disenchanted with the system," Manning said. "This has destroyed their lives."

The lawsuit was filed by a District of Columbia administrative hearings judge, Roy Pearson, who has been representing himself in the case.

Pearson did not return phone calls and e-mails Wednesday from The Associated Press requesting comment.

According to court documents, the problem began in May 2005 when Pearson became a judge and brought several suits for alteration to Custom Cleaners in Northeast Washington, a place he patronized regularly despite previous disagreements with the Chungs. A pair of pants from one suit was not ready when he requested it two days later, and was deemed to be missing.

Pearson asked the cleaners for the full price of the suit: more than $1,000.

But a week later, the Chungs said the pants had been found and refused to pay. That's when Pearson decided to sue.

Manning said the cleaners made three settlement offers to Pearson. First they offered $3,000, then $4,600, then $12,000. But Pearson wasn't satisfied and expanded his calculations beyond one pair of pants.

Because Pearson no longer wanted to use his neighborhood dry cleaner, part of his lawsuit calls for $15,000 — the price to rent a car every weekend for 10 years to go to another business.

"He's somehow purporting that he has a constitutional right to a dry cleaner within four blocks of his apartment," Manning said.

But the bulk of the $65 million comes from Pearson's strict interpretation of D.C.'s consumer protection law, which fines violators $1,500 per violation, per day. According to court papers, Pearson added up 12 violations over 1,200 days, and then multiplied that by three defendants.

Much of Pearson's case rests on two signs that Custom Cleaners once had on its walls: "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and "Same Day Service."

Based on Pearson's dissatisfaction and the delay in getting back the pants, he claims the signs amount to fraud.

Pearson has appointed himself to represent all customers affected by such signs, though D.C. Superior Court Judge Neal Kravitz, who will hear the June 11 trial, has said that this is a case about one plaintiff, and one pair of pants.

Sherman Joyce, president of the American Tort Association, has written a letter to the group of men who will decide this week whether to renew Pearson's 10-year appointment. Joyce is asking them to reconsider.

Chief Administrative Judge Tyrone Butler had no comment regarding Pearson's reappointment.

The association, which tries to police the kind of abusive lawsuits that hurt small businesses, also has offered to buy Pearson the suit of his choice.

And former National Labors Relations Board chief administrative law judge Melvin Welles wrote to The Washington Post to urge "any bar to which Mr. Pearson belongs to immediately disbar him and the District to remove him from his position as an administrative law judge."

"There has been a significant groundswell of support for the Chungs," said Manning, adding that plans for a defense fund Web site are in the works.

To the Chungs and their attorney, one of the most frustrating aspects of the case is their claim that Pearson's gray pants were found a week after Pearson dropped them off in 2005. They've been hanging in Manning's office for more than a year.

Pearson claims in court documents that his pants had blue and red pinstripes.

"They match his inseam measurements. The ticket on the pants match his receipt," Manning said.

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Posted on 05-03-07 9:47 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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this was on fox news yesterday ,crazy judge huh !
 
Posted on 05-03-07 9:49 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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yeah...saw this too on TV the day before. Wtf is wrong with dat judge? He crazy!!
 
Posted on 05-03-07 10:07 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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LOL! Nice retirement plan for the judge. Is sure to outperform any on Wall Street.:)
 
Posted on 05-03-07 10:27 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Yeah...if this judge wins even a $100,000, then the American legal system needs some thorough cleaning up to do. In the end, society as a whole would pay the costs for the higher insurance premiums that business would now be forced to take. Damn, it sucks to be the Chungs while the kallu judge must be laughing his azz off (and they're even offering to pay upto $12K for one pant!)! BTW, who takes their $600 pants to be dry cleaned at a $3 place??? Looks like the retard judge is BSing his way into this!
 
Posted on 05-03-07 10:36 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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This is exactly when the gun laws in the US all of a sudden makes sense.
 
Posted on 05-03-07 10:39 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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what do you mean? Gunlaws?? Shot the judge or what?

Interesting how legal system can be manipulated .Great Example..

laws where there to protect comsumers and look this pagal judge ..Even if the chungs sell theirwhole body they won't be able to pay..now what the hell the judge wants??
He is just trying to take revenge!!!after so much hassle he has given to chungs ..you think he would be satisified by now??
 
Posted on 05-03-07 10:41 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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yeah ImI, I would if I was the Chungs!
 
Posted on 05-03-07 10:41 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Nice way to earn money :)
 


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