A dry cleaner is being sued for $67 Million dollars because they lost a pair of pants. The pants belonged to an "attorney" (probably a misnomer) who is suing because the pants were "special".
Minimally this is lawsuit abuse. The dry cleaner has already offered over $12,000 in what is tantamount to extortion, but the jackass continues to press the lawsuit. This wreaks of vengeance and I believe to be unethical behavior - when does the ABA step in and slap this guy down? And we wonder why attorneys have horrible reputations...
2007-05-02 05:41:19 · 7 answers · asked by OrygunDuk 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It's not about vengence. It's about plain old GREED. He should be ashamed of himself. If he works for a law firm, he should be fired, he should be disbarred for abusing the justice system and abusing those people. He's looking for one big payoff to set him for life, thats all.
I hope that no judge in his or her right mind would stand for it.
I hated to see that he was of my race. We have enough sterotypes about us floating around without him adding to it.
They lost a pair of pants..OMG the world is gonna come to an end. Does this man know that for what he sueing this poor old couple for, whole countries could be fed, yet, while people starve, and 100's of people die in a day in market places from bombs and such, he actually believes the loss of a pair of pants is so crucial.
It is sickening. I am repulsed.
2007-05-03 08:06:24 · answer #1 · answered by RAW29 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you have a link to a news site that covers this?
Ok, I found one.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3119381&page=1
It is not just an attorney, but a judge doing the suing. I think that someone should start up a fund to help the store owners fight this lawsuit and then countersue the plaintif. That fund might then be used to help others fight stupid lawsuits and get the people filing these frivilous lawsuits to end up paying a lot of money.
2007-05-02 05:46:20 · answer #2 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
An article I read states: "According to court papers, here's how Pearson calculates the damages and legal fees:
He believes he is entitled to $1,500 for each violation, each day during which the "Satisfaction Guaranteed" sign and another sign promising "Same Day Service" was up in the store -- more than 1,200 days. (based on a consumer protection act statute)
And he's multiplying each violation by three because he's suing Jin and Soo Chung and their son.
He also wants $500,000 in emotional damages and $542, 500 in legal fees, even though he is representing himself in court.
He wants $15,000 for 10 years' worth of weekend car rentals as well.
He probably won't get any kind of fines for filing this case. It's been going on for 2 years already. So, if he was going to get hit for this, he'd already have had the case thrown out and a motion for sanctions and a grievance filed against him. The case goes to trial in June - so a jury will decide.
2007-05-02 05:56:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
YUP, crooks and theives are what is destroying commerce in this country, so products come from foreign places like China, with lead or other nasty chemicals hazardous to pets AND humans, with no regulatory controls. Yet, a person gets injured on teh job and they are left fighting the compensation board for money enough to pay medical bills and rehabilitation therapy, go figure. Lawyer pants are more important.
2007-05-03 03:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is another example of why 99% of attorneys ruin the image of the rest of us!
2007-05-02 07:38:59 · answer #5 · answered by Scotty 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is absurd indeed. I have heard of this lawsuit before. Do not judge all lawyers by the actions of this guy.
2007-05-02 05:51:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yeah------I heard it on the news also-----I hope he gets heavy fines for misusing the court system in this way----------this is nuts.
2007-05-02 05:55:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋