Tale of the $54 Million Pants.

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Fashion on June 15, 2007 at 11:57 am


Judge Roy Pearson, Jr. really, really, really loved his favorite pants that his dry cleaners lost, so of course he decided on a logical course of action: he sued. For $67.3 million!

When the owners, Korean immigrants who came to the United States in 1992, could not find one pair of pants, Pearson demanded $1,150 for a replacement suit. The owners did not respond; he sued.

Using a complicated formula, Pearson argues that under the city’s consumer protection law, the owners, Soo and Jin Chung and their son, Ki Chung, each owe $18,000 for each day over a nearly four-year period in which signs at their store promised "Same Day Service" and "Satisfaction Guaranteed."

And when that was derisively deemed to be excessive, he lowered his price. To $54 million!

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11 comments to "Tale of the $54 Million Pants."

  1. elizabeth
    June 15th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    I’d be pretty angry too if someone lost my pants…

  2. Gob
    June 15th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    Like the guy in the 54 Million dollar pants would have his satisfaction guaranteed. COME ON!

  3. SiteSeer
    June 15th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

    I hope the bloodsucking lawyer loses his job over this.

  4. Tim Giachetti
    June 15th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    Another reason the court systems are bogged down. This idiot just wants to set an example. And while checking into him, he isn’t even an apelat judge. He’s a glorified mediator and that’s it. He’s a moron and a waste of news space. Like Britney and Paris

  5. TubbyCat
    June 15th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    He should be put in jail.

  6. Bryan
    June 15th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Are the pants pictured the pants in question? Because my mental picture was of a ratty pair of zubaz.

  7. Joel
    June 15th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    Anything over $50 million seems excessive.

  8. Jo-Anne
    June 15th, 2007 at 9:52 pm

    This judge must be completely out of his mind. What a waste of the court’s time AND that poor family - their life has been ruined by this pompous idiot.

  9. fluff
    June 16th, 2007 at 6:41 am

    Thats only possible in the US. That guy should be shot to space along with certain other individuals like hin.

  10. Alex
    June 16th, 2007 at 7:32 pm

    We so need a “loser pay” system to discourage lawsuits like this.

  11. b33
    June 17th, 2007 at 6:27 am

    This case infuriates me. Why do we feel this sense of “entitlement” so much in the States?


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