The case: In 2005, a Washington, D.C.-based judge, Roy L. Pearson Jr., dropped his suit off at Customer Cleaners, a local mom-and-pop dry cleaning shop. When he returned, the pants were missing. And while the owners later found the pants, Pearson swore up and down they weren’t his and instead decided to sue the pants off Soo and Jin Chung.
In court, he put on a world-class show of anger, grief, and betrayal over the missing pants, at one point crying in court and rushing out of the courtroom when confronted with the pants he denied were his.
The judge ruled the case frivolous but not before the Chung’s business suffered so they could pay for the legal defense.
This lawsuit is easily the most ridiculous and frivolous of all time. The owners even tried to give Pearson $12,000 if he would drop the case, but he refused.
Pearson lost his job as an administrative judge. He was also suspended from practicing law for 90 days in 2020 due to this absurd lawsuit.
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