Thank goodness!
The infamous $67 million pants case has finally ended, and according to a D.C. Court of Appeals ruling handed down today, the pants are hardly worth that sum.
Unless former administrative judge Roy Pearson appeals for an en banc hearing, the opinion marks the conclusion of a lawsuit filed more than three years ago that became a favorite punchline for many who followed it. Pearson sued the owners of now-defunct Custom Cleaners in 2005 for $54 million, accusing Soo and Jin Chung and their son, Ki Chung of losing a pair of pants he dropped off for dry cleaning. By allegedly losing the pants, Pearson argued, the store failed to live up to its "Satisfaction Guaranteed" sign and thus violated D.C. consumer protection law.
By Pearson’s interpretation of the Consumer Protection Act, the Chungs each owe him $18,000 for each day the pants were missing over a nearly four-year period. In that time, Pearson's demand went up to $67 million.
The three judge panel, consisting of judges Noel Kramer and Phyllis Thompson and retired Judge Michael Farrell, ruled against Pearson on every argument he made at oral argument in October.
In the opinion, Kramer says Pearson’s argument that a “Satisfaction Guaranteed” sign is an unconditional and unlimited warrant of satisfaction has no basis and that when trial Judge Judith Bartnoff rejected that claim, it showed “basic common sense.”
Read on.
On a side note: The Web site for Manning's firm includes a rundown of the facts of the case and a link to donate to the Chungs.
1 comment:
That was the dumbest case and proved we have idiots as Judges and in all top area's of Govenment. He should be made to pay the real victims the dependents. I'm so tired of hearing about our courts full with Judges like Naughty Nottingham, Justice Thomas, Justice Alito and others who are clearing not stable.
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