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…
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…
Lawyer Seeking $65 Million for Pants-Related Fraud
It’s the principle of the thing, probably.
Manila Airport Security Apprehends German Pants-Dropper
Upgraded security procedures at Manila International Airport are being credited for the apprehension of Hans Jurgen Oskar von Naguschewski, a 66-year-old German tourist who got so fed up with it that he dropped his pants before walking (or more likely…
Endangered Species Rescued from Smuggler’s Pants
Robert Cusack was sentenced to five and a half months in prison for smuggling a variety of endangered species into the United States from Thailand in 2002. In addition to the four birds of paradise and 50 rare orchids that…
“Mental Incident” Defense Gains Probation for Pantsless American
Richard Simmons (no relation to the fitness guru, if that’s what you call that Richard Simmons) was arrested in July in Pocatello, Idaho, after he pointed a gun at another driver and then exposed himself to police officers. According to…
“I Just Want to Let You Know, There Was A Statement In the Pants”
CNN reported today that a man in South Carolina is appealing his rape conviction on the grounds that the jurors found a previously unrevealed written confession in his pants while they were deliberating on their verdict. Note to self: ask…