The Last Word On The $54 Million Pants
December 19, 2008
Carter Wood over at NAM’s Shopfloor blog has what will hopefully be the last word on the Washington, DC judge who sued his dry cleaner for $54 million after the store lost his favorite pair of pants. Judge Roy Pearson, who lost his seat on the bench as well as his lawsuit, exhausted his final appeal yesterday when the District’s highest court failed to reverse the lower court’s decision. The decision must have come as a relief to Jin Nam and Ki Chung, owners of Custom Cleaners, but it was surely a Pyrrhic victory. The Chungs were forced to spend over $100,000 in legal fees and close several of their stores to achieve “justice” in America’s out-of-control legal system.