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flummuxt
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject: Korean couple close cleaners |
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/09/pants_update_the_dry_cleaners.html?hpid=topnews
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Pants Update: The Dry Cleaners Shuts Down
Roy Pearson, the D.C. administrative law judge whose $67 million lawsuit against his neighborhood dry cleaners turned into a worldwide lesson in how one obsessed person can hijack the American legal system, lost his case in court, but today delivered the crowning blow to the owners of Custom Cleaners:
Bowing to the emotional and financial strains of two years of litigation, Soo and Jin Chung today announced the closing of the dry cleaners that may or may not have lost a pair of Pearson's pants that he put in for a $10 alteration in 2005.
"They were just tired of the whole ordeal," the Chungs' daughter-in-law, Soo Choi, told me today. "A lot of people view this comically because the case is so outrageous, but my mother-in-law has gone down four dress sizes from this whole ordeal. They just want to put this in their past."
In addition to the heavy emotional toll, the lawsuit proved to be a big drag on revenues at Custom Cleaners, located on Bladensburg Road NE. When Pearson first started gathering material for his aggressive legal battle, he posted fliers on light poles all around the Fort Lincoln neighborhood, asking residents if they had been ripped off by Custom and announcing his own displeasure with the service there. Business declined significantly after that and never rebounded, said Choi and the Chungs' lawyer, Christopher Manning.
"You'd think the trial and all the publicity would have a good effect on business," Manning said, "but for a dry cleaner, it really doesn't, because your customers are from the immediate neighborhood."
Public support for the Chungs did come in strong as news coverage of Pearson's wild demands and the D.C. court's failure to nip the case in the bud spread throughout the globe. Both the tort reform lobby and the trial lawyers association denounced Pearson's abuse of the legal system--a rare case of cooperation between sworn enemies. And fundraisers for the Chungs collected enough money--more than $100,000--to cover the family's legal bills.
Pearson last month appealed the Superior Court decision rejecting his suit, but Manning said his firm will handle the appeal for the Chungs without charge.
The Chungs will now work exclusively at their original shop, Happy Cleaners, on Seventh Street NW, across from the D.C. Convention Center. Soo Chung was there this afternoon, mopping the floor, waiting for customers. For the first time in a very long time, she was able to smile about her work. "This is our first store, first job," she told me. "When we came to America, we worked here. Good job. Good store." |
That's a pity. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I would be upset, like the judge, if that happened to my pants. However, I think the judge needs to see a psychologist. Even if someone messed up your pants, why spend so much suing over it and losing more than the value of the pants? It seems illogical, and a judge who such illogic at that age should be disbarred. The system needs to stop these frivolous suits. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
Well, I would be upset, like the judge, if that happened to my pants. However, I think the judge needs to see a psychologist. Even if someone messed up your pants, why spend so much suing over it and losing more than the value of the pants?
The system needs to stop these frivolous suits. |
Wordly power breeds dementia, delusion & grandeur.
This dis-graceful man ... total sociopath 
Largely a waste of the "justice" system.
On the bright side, maybe sets a precedent for future greedy con-jobs 
Why didn't the idiot at least make a more REASONABLE & balanced claim? |
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hubba bubba
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| They should sue him right back. |
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