Clowns
A Washington, D.C. law judge broke down in tears and had to take a break from his testimony because he became too emotional while questioning himself about his experience with a missing pair of pants.
In his opening statement, Pearson said the case looks at the culture that allows a “group of defendants to engage in bad business practices for five years,” according to ABC affiliate WJLA.
But as he explained the details of the missing pants, Pearson struggled to get through his hour and a half of testimony and had to leave the stand at one point because he was so emotional…
The sartorial loss caused Pearson to suffer what he calls severe “mental suffering, inconvenience and discomfort.”
Someone, anyone, please buy the poor judge some prozac.
And for those who are wondering: the owners of the shop (Korean immigrants) offered judge Pearson $4,600 to make up for losing his pants. Better still: a week after they lost Pearson’s pants, they found it back. They tried to return the pants to Pearson, but he says that they are the wrong pants.
Now, this story had me laughing, I have to admit, until I read this:
“It’s not humorous, not funny and nobody would have thought that something like this would have happened,” Soo Chung told ABC News through an interpreter. Her husband agreed.
“It’s affecting us first of all financially, because of all the lawyers’ fees,” Jin Chung said. “For two years, we’ve been paying lawyer fees. And we’ve gotten bad credit as well, and secondly, it’s been difficult mentally and physically because of the level of stress.” Later, Soo Chung broke down in tears.
“I would have never thought it would have dragged on this long,” she said. “I don’t want to live here anymore. It’s been so difficult. I just want to go home, go back to Korea.”
“I’ve been in the dry cleaning business for 14 years, but this has never ever happened before. If anything happened to our customers’ clothing, we would always compensate them accordingly and fairly,” Jin Chung said through a translator.
I hope that the Korean couple will, one, win the lawsuit and, two, will be able to force judge Pearson to pay them a couple of million dollars in damages.
H/t Dan Schneider.
Why hasn’t this lawsuit been dismissed as a nuisance case a long time ago? The judge who brought it should be removed from the bench and face disbarrment for harassing these people. But it should never have come to trial in the first place as it is the kind of case that normally is heard in small claims court.???
I guess that Pearson knows how to manipulate the law, to bring it as a civil suit (no pun intended) but at the same time he sounds dangerously unstable. Reports here (this is a local story for me) had him in tears twice during his testimony.
Those must have been some pants.
There’s gotta be a pun in there about briefs somehow but I can’t quite get the wording right
My laughter is guilty pleasure too though, as that family has been put through hell over this frivolous lawsuit. Ridiculous, and very sad.
I think kritter is right.
It’s obvious that Pearson is a clown who doesn’t have the temperment to be a judge. But what about the temperment of the judge who let this circus go on?
This story makes me more concerned for our judicial system than the Paris Hilton story.
The story went on with a comment from the State office. Mainly being that as a Citizen he’s got the right to bring his grievances to court just as the rest of us do for whatever we wish for. And that It’s up to the court system to determine it valid or not. But it would be wrong to hold him professionally liable for using his Constitutional rights.
And on a legal manner - the comment was correct. You really can’t pick and choose what you think or who you think should be able to use their Constitutional rights. It is up to the Court system to treat him like any citizen.
Usually these types of nuisance suits are thrown out before they get to this point. I think Pearson is using a DC consumer law, but twisting it to his own ends in a way that the law wasn’t intended. He is doing this because he can.
usually yes - and this one problably should as well.
But reality is he’s doing it because it’s legal and his legal right to do it.
But you nor I have the ability to determine what is frivolous or not. Only the Courts and the law does.
Ergo - write the representatives to get the law changed.
lol yeah you’re right Interested.
On the other hand - one can laugh about this particular idiot, can’t one?
oh never said I wasn’t laughing or shaking my head.
But laws are laws. Can’t really pick and choose which laws you want followed when it seems whimsical…. to one.