Wasting no time this morning, Judge Judith Bartnoff ruled in favor of Custom Cleaners, saying they had not violated the D.C. Consumer Protection Act by failing to satisfy Judge Roy Pearson as to the whereabouts of his pants, despite having…
According to Washington Post bloggers, a decision in the Pants Case is expected by Monday, possibly this afternoon. With any luck, the court’s opinion will be available for immediate posting and review. Also, Marc Fisher reported this week on the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…