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…
Defendant Learns Why Blogging About Your Own Trial is a Bad Idea
A tool or device probably can’t be considered inherently bad in and of itself. A case could be made that some, like the atomic bomb or the BlackBerry, are so dangerous or destructive that they should be banned entirely because…
Bar Association: Lawyer-Administered Beatings May Be Unethical
In India on Wednesday, the Agra Bar Association said it would be looking into the details of an attack by several lawyers on a litigant there. According to reports, the lawyers claim that the man refused to marry the niece…
City of Montreal Ordered to Pay $27,000 for Disastrous Bar Mitzvah Reception
Peter Neumann was awarded "moral and legal damages" on Monday by a court in Quebec, based on Neumann’s allegations that a city employee ruined his grandson’s bar mitzvah in 2003 and the city government then failed to take his complaints…
Attorney Demands $50K For Injury Caused by Pizza Hut Door
Amanda Verett, an attorney in Edwardsville, Illinois, has sued Pizza Hut and another customer for injuries she says she sustained from a door. Verett alleges that on February 12, as she was exiting the Hut, she held the door open…
Cardinals Fan Sues Over Botched Tattoo
St. Louis fans are justly proud of their Cardinals, who (as some of you will remember) won the World Series in 2006. Jason Harris was so proud of them that he went to a local tattoo parlor to have a…
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…