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I've halfheartedly followed this case for awhile now...a distressed and obviously deranged Judge in Washington D.C. sued a dry cleaners for $54 Million for losing his pants...

WASHINGTON - A judge had to leave the courtroom with tears running down his face Tuesday after recalling the lost pair of trousers that led to his $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner.

Administrative law judge Roy L. Pearson had argued earlier in his opening statement that he is acting in the interest of all city residents against poor business practices. Defense attorneys called his claim "outlandish." ... An attorney for the Chungs portrayed Pearson as a bitter man with financial troubles stemming from a recent divorce who is taking out his anger on a hardworking family.

I'll say. We have a Judge who was taken to the cleaners by his wife, left nearly broke, now his entire life is based on a pair of missing pants to a $1000.00 suit. I wonder, does he golf with Nifong?

Is there not a way to have Judge Pearson committed, involuntarily, before he really goes off the deep end? Can he be trusted to be a Judge, still, after filing such a crazy lawsuit?

This case should bring up tort reform, much as did the McDonald's Hot Coffee case. That particular case involved actual burns and skin grafts on a 79-year-old woman, and had some merit. But $54 Million for missing pants?

No wonder his missus divorced him. Nothing, in the pants...

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