Suit Suit Suits Future Former Judge

(Today's assignment, say the post title five times fast.) The soon-to-be-former (hopefully) judge who sued a dry cleaner for $54 million and lost smashingly, is not giving up. The family he sued offered to drop the demand for repayment of legal fees, but the judge filed a notice of appeal anyway.

The owners of Custom Cleaners in Northeast Washington had hoped to head off Pearson by withdrawing their demand that he pay tens of thousands of dollars in attorney fees and prevailing on him to let the case lie.

But yesterday morning, a day before the deadline for filing his notice of appeal, (Roy) Pearson submitted the requisite paperwork to take the case to the D.C. Court of Appeals. Pearson's $54 million suit arose from a dispute over a pair of pants that he said were lost.

So the case of Pearson v. Chung will remain alive, sustained by a two-page filing and a $100 fee.

One assumes the future former judge left his common sense in his other suit. Pearson was notified last week by the commission that oversees administrative law judges that Pearson might not get reappointed to a full term on the bench. Frankly, I really feel sorry for the Chung family. Their ordeal is still not over thanks to a judge with no apparent judgment but with $100 for a filing fee. Too bad he didn't leave that money in his other suit with his common sense.