After nearly a week of NYC posts, today I start a new Friday series titled "Douche Bag of the Week." I considered calling it "Asshat of the Week" since that would be tres bloggerique but I'm old school and just love the words "douche bag."
This week's biggest Douche Bag is Roy Pearson, the judge that filed a $67M lawsuit against Korean immigrant dry cleaners for losing a pair of his pants.
I've edited the original AP story I pulled from Yahoo! News:
WASHINGTON - A judge ruled in favor of a dry cleaner that was sued for $54 million over a missing pair of pants.Welcome to America!
The owners of Custom Cleaners did not violate the city's consumer protection law by failing to live up to Roy L. Pearson's expectations of the "Satisfaction Guaranteed" sign once displayed in the store window, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruled.
"A reasonable consumer would not interpret 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' to mean that a merchant is required to satisfy a customer's unreasonable demands" or to agree to demands that the merchant would have reasonable grounds for disputing, the judge wrote.
Bartnoff ordered Pearson to pay the court costs of defendants Soo Chung, Jin Nam Chung and Ki Y. Chung. The court costs amount to just over $1,000 for photocopying, filing and similar expenses, according to the Chungs' attorney. A motion to recover the Chungs' tens of thousands of dollars in attorney fees will be considered later.
Pearson, an administrative law judge, originally sought $67 million from the Chungs, claiming they lost a pair of trousers from a blue and maroon suit, then tried to give him a pair a pair of charcoal gray pants that he said were not his. He arrived at the amount by adding up years of alleged law violations and almost $2 million in common law fraud claims.
What A Douche Bag!
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