Live-Blogging From the Pants Trial
Not me, unfortunately, but at least someone is doing it. Emil Steiner of the Washington Post is live at the trial of Pearson v. Custom Cleaners, which did in fact go to trial this morning and may or may not…
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Trial of Judge’s Lost-Pants Claim Set to Begin
According to the website of the firm representing Custom Cleaners, the trial of Judge Roy Pearson’s $54-million-dollar lost-pants claims is set to begin today or tomorrow in District of Columbia Superior Court. Apparently Judge Judith Bartnoff is presiding over another…
Judge Drops Pants; Suit Still On
New developments this week in the lawsuit by D.C. administrative law judge Roy Pearson against his local dry cleaners, alleging a diabolical pants-related scheme. As you may recall, Pearson sued under the D.C. consumer-protection statute after the cleaners allegedly lost…
Further Details Emerge on $65-Million-Pants Lawsuit
We learned more this week about the lawsuit by a D.C. administrative law judge against his diabolical neighborhood dry cleaners, who allegedly lost or stole or set fire to or irradiated or otherwise acted tortiously towards a pair of pants…
ATRA Offers to Buy Plaintiff New Pants (Presumably for Less Than $65 Million)
The other day I mentioned the story of the judge in D.C. who has claimed $65 million in damages in a dispute over a pair of pants. In today’s D.C. Examiner, the president of the American Tort Reform Association says…
Lawyer Seeking $65 Million for Pants-Related Fraud
It’s the principle of the thing, probably.
Second Japanese Toilet Manufacturer Admits Its Product Placed Buttocks at Risk
The blazing-bidet scandal continues to grow in Japan, with the country’s second-largest toilet maker now joining the market leader, Toto Ltd., in admitting that it has been aware for years of defects in its "washlet" products. INAX Corp. said today…
Japanese Company Warns That Defective Toilets May Catch Fire
Toto Ltd., Japan’s leading toilet manufacturer, announced today that it was offering free repairs for a defect that had been identified in its popular "Z Series" toilets. The company said that the defect, related to the toilets’ electrical systems, may…
WARNING: “Welsh Dragon Sausages” May Not Contain Real Dragon
In November, the Trading Standards department for Powys County, Wales, forced a sausage manufacturer to change the label of its "Welsh Dragon"-brand spicy sausage, on the grounds that the label was misleading because the product did not contain real dragon….
Wacky Warning Labels, 2006
A group called Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch runs an annual contest to find the dumbest or least necessary warning labels, and it released its 2006 list today. The winners are: On a washing machine: "DO NOT put any person in…