The city council of Lynwood, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, is the latest to join the crusade against sagging pants. Reports said that the new city ordinance would impose a $35 fine on anyone found to be showing more than three…
It appears that Chief of Police David Dicks is still pursuing his campaign to keep pants from sagging in Flint, Michigan, as he announced back on June 25. Dicks described the wearing of low pants as "immoral self-expression" (which makes…
Claiming that he was acting on a "significant" number of citizen complaints, the police chief for Flint, Michigan, said on June 25 that he had directed officers to start arresting people seen wearing pants and/or shorts that sag "too low."…
On June 9, Macrida Patterson filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County alleging that she was injured last year by a defective product. According to the report, Patterson was putting on a "low-rise v-string" thong she had purchased at Victoria’s…
In what is certainly welcome news for amateur legal humorists everywhere, Roy Pearson has filed another lawsuit. As you may recall (see, e.g., "Judge Drops Pants; Suit Still On," Lowering the Bar (June 6, 2007)), Pearson was formerly Judge Pearson,…
On April 22, a bill that would have ended the scourge of droopy pants throughout Louisiana failed in the state senate. This was lamented by the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Derrick Shepherd (D-New Orleans), who said the state should take a…
Earlier this month, the Board of Aldermen in Pine Lawn, Missouri, voted to impose fines for wearing pants that sag below the waist, joining several other communities bravely fighting this scourge of modern society. Pine Lawn is a small community…
Reports last week that Roy Pearson would lose his job were confirmed on Tuesday, when the panel that oversees administrative law judges in D.C. had a letter hand-delivered to him at about 3:30 p.m., telling him to vacate his office…
Another lawsuit stemming from the movie "Borat" was filed on Friday, October 22, this time in the Northern District of Alabama by the other "stars" of the dinner party scene. In Streit v. Twentieth Century Fox, the plaintiffs allege that…
Sources report that the D.C. Commission on Selection and Tenure of Administrative Law Judges has voted not to reappoint Roy Pearson for another term as an administrative law judge. Pearson caused both outrage and (among amateur legal humorists) delight by…