The AP reported today that the Chung family has closed and sold its dry cleaner shop that was targeted by a $54 million lawsuit from D.C. Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson Jr., who was angry over a missing pair of pants.
The Chung family won the suit in D.C. Superior Court and had more than $100,000 in legal fees paid by donations and fundraisers, but they still lost business revenue and the emotional toll of the case sapped their energy, said their attorney, Chris Manning. The family still owns another dry cleaner shop in the D.C. area.
"This is a truly tragic example of how devastating frivolous litigation can be to the American people and to small businesses," Manning said in a statement.
Pearson hasn't given up and is appealing the lawsuit to the D.C. Court of Appeals, but he could lose his $100,000-a-year job at an upcoming hearing before the D.C. Commission on Selection and Tenure of Administrative Law Judges. For more details on his combative history as an administrative law judge, read this Legal Times article.
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