I am incensed by the $54 million pants lawsuit

[Horse with no Name]

How dare that Judge put these people in financial ruin and despair over a $50 pair of pants.:mad:
The Judge should make him compensate the victims of his frivolous lawsuit.

[LisaM]

1. How did it even make it into court?

I don't understand any part of this story.

[Horse with no Name]

4. I don't know

But the fact that these people OFFERED $12k for that pair of pants (which have been located by the way--but he doesn't want them back) is asinine.
Apparently this Judge was going through a messy and expensive divorce when he filed this and decided to make this immigrant family the recipient of his bile.

[Blue Diadem]

10. OMG they offered him $12K?

:grr: It sounds like he just wants to ruin them.

[Darth_Kitten]

19. I bet his ex-wife just about had it with doing his laundry.......

:sarcasm:

Frivolous case, that poor immigrant couple. Their lives are being ruined, and for what?

Some people just don't deserve the title of human. :(

[seemunkee]

23. I read today that he just papered everyone.

Too many filings to counter that it ended up making it to court.

[fooj]

2. Talk about a "frivolous" lawsuit!

For the record...do we know if this "judge" is a Republican? Just wonderin'...

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. Link?

[Horse with no Name]

12. Here is one

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19195543/

[HCE SuiGeneris]

16. Thanks

What a disheartening story... damn.

[hfojvt]

30. Dang, I had hoped that somebody was suing

David Letterman.

I should get at least $2 million in compensation for the number of times I have watched his lame show.

[Blue Diadem]

5. I am too. It's a waste of court time and a tremendous burden

on the dry cleaners. I do hope he loses and is made to pay that couple's legal fees.

[npincus]

6. Me too- the Chongs have a web site for donations

to offset their legal fees, MSNBC reported. No URL given...

What an ASS. He should be disbarred.

[BlooInBloo]

7. An abuse of power.

[underpants]

8. This reaks of a set up lawsuit

I googled but couldn't find and article to start searching but I have seen too much of the anti-rights crowd to not suspect something is up here.

Just saying.

[Horse with no Name]

17. It did to me too

But it seems to just be a nasty man with nothing better to do.

[TZ]

26. Have you heard part of his argument, Horse?

This is a local story for me...They Dry Cleaners produced his "pants" and this effing idiot says they aren't his becuase they had a cuff or some shit like that and he doesn't do "cuffs". The lawyers for the dry cleaners proved that the TAILORED measurements on the pants are an exact MATCH for this idiot. I nominate this Judge for Jackass of the Year!!!:grr:

[Horse with no Name]

28. Yeah I heard that

:(.

[PA Democrat]

18. Even if it isn't a setup, it will be used to limit the rights of the average person to

pursue legitimate lawsuits. The Republicans do that crap all the time. Find one legitimate case of abuse, or make one up to justify taking away a program or a right from ALL people.

Remember Reagan's "welfare queen" who drove the Cadillac and was ripping off welfare to the tune of $150,00? She was pure fiction, but she was sold as a reality and was used to roll back welfare benefits.

[treestar]

31. Exactly. I think the only thing that should be done re frivolous lawsuits

is to have them dismissed. It is not so time consuming as the insurance companies claim. Anything that allows dismissal of lawsuits based on frvivolity gives judges even more power - what an irony to overlook that in this case.

Judges in this country are full enough of themselves already. They think they are more than just judges of the law, they think they've been handled a personal power of tyranny over others. Look at this guy's behavior. Another example.

Then let them decide who is good enough to even ask them to be judges of the law, and their heads will swell even bigger. They'll get to decide who even gets to ask for justice in "their" courtrooms.

[PA Democrat]

35. I don't understand how this case made it to trial.

There is a legal tool called a summary judgment that can be used to dismiss a frivolous lawsuit before it goes to trial and also gives the defendant the right to collect attorney's fees from the person initiating the frivolous lawsuit.

There's something very smelly about this whole case. I seriously doubt this case would ever have made it to trial if it weren't for the fact that the plaintiff is a judge.

[treestar]

38. It may have actually been OK as a case, but how can the damages

be 54 mil? It would seem like it belongs in Small Claims Court.

Sounds like a case for Judge Judy.

[PA Democrat]

39. The owners of the dry cleaners made several very reasonable settlement offers to the judge.

I believe their top offer was $12,000. I think you are right in that the guy may have a case, but that he is crazy to expect even a fraction of the amount for which he's suing. He should have taken the $12,000 and saved his reputation.

[underpants]

36. That had to be the most racist thing ever said by a President

well at least the most racist thing said in public.

Why didn't he just go ahead and say they were eating fried chicken and bouncing a basketball?

Calvin Trillin had a great article on that-he said that the Republicans all stood up and cheered and shook their heads because to them "Cadillac" had to mean a brand new shiny black model, they didn't have any understanding of the ones with tattered roofs and interchanged quarterpanels.

[Ganja Ninja]

9. I really think that judge needs to have his head examined.

There has to be something seriously wrong with someone to raise this much hell over a pair of pants. They've even offered him something like $12,000 dollars to go away and he wouldn't take it. How many suits could you buy with that much money?

[Catchawave]

11. I so agree :(

They should counter sue for emotional distress.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. I think that this borders on criminal. Extortion. These poor people came here to find

the American dream and they are living the American nightmare. The Judge is a maniac.

[aquart]

14. No Small Claims Court in this idiot's state?

The idiot should be ordered to pay all court costs. And then they should send him to get his head examined.

[babylonsister]

15. Another fear is if the judge wins 'anything', every tom, DICK, and harry

will be filing frivolous lawsuits. :grr:

[PA Democrat]

20. Isn't the judge representing himself in this case?

Because no legitimate attorney would take such a ridiculous case.

[babylonsister]

25. I don't know; I haven't followed this closely since I first read about it

and saw how clearly ridiculous it was. This man will ruin lives and livelihoods, and for what?
God forbid a family member can't take the media assault or the 'disgrace' and does something terminal. People have snapped for less.

[smokey nj]

32. Yes, he is, and here's another interesting nugget from the story.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3269485&page=1

"Pearson has a long history with the Chungs. In 2002, after a disagreement over another pair of Pearson's pant which Custom Cleaners allegedly lost - and compensated him for with $150 - Pearson was banned from the store, defense attorney Christopher Manning claimed in court.

Manning said that Pearson pleaded with the Chungs to let him back into the store, because he didn't have a car, he said, and they were the only dry cleaners in the neighborhood."

[LisaM]

40. If someone doesn't have a car and only has $1000 to his name

despite being a judge, why is his first order of business getting a pile of suits altered? Everything this guy does is frivolous.

[Horse with no Name]

42. They don't have bus passes in DC?

:shrug:

[sharp_stick]

21. Damned right...

The coffee at my local Dunkin Donuts was kind of weak on Monday, forcing me to drive down the block to the next Dunkin to buy my coffee from then on.

I'm thinking 24 million should cover it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

22. Solution: Get a Life.

...

[Sukie1941]

24. Should have been thrown out as frivolous

AND since it went to court, if the "judge" loses, he should pay all legal expenses for both parties.

Here in Oregon that often nips the cases in the bud.

[Lars39]

27. I used to do alterations for 3 dry cleaners.

That judge sounds like the customer I once had who wanted his $1000+ dress pants taken up less than a quarter of an inch in the waist. About a year later I was letting them back out the same amount.:silly:

[1gobluedem]

29. Heard a story about this yesterday

Apparently this judge just lost a bundle in a divorce and speculation is this is an attempt to recoup some of his losses -- by taking advantage of these poor people. Honestly.

[TZ]

33. local media spin on this story...

Was that the "satisfaction guaranteed" claim by the dry cleaners was a bit of a fraud. That really got my goat....I can't find it but they did a survey the other day about this topic and it was like 90% felt like the sign about satisfaction guaranteed was misleading...oh please....:grr:

[AndreaCG]

37. Doesn't satisfaction guaranteed mean

Or your money back? Not $54 million.

I hope he dry cleaning couple can put in evidence that they banned him as a client and he begged to be able to go agin. BECAUSE HE DIDN"T HAVE A CAR??? What kind of judge doesn't have enough money to buy a 15,000 car?

[Horse with no Name]

41. Sounds like a Judge that would be damn easy to bribe to me

Someone should look into that...

[Bake]

34. This is the kind of sh*t that gives lawyers/judges a bad name!

God knows we do enough on our own, but this is just ridiculous.

Bake