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The $54 Million Pants Guy Goes Home with Empty Pockets

pimg alt="81129.jpg" src="http://www.quizlaw.com/blog/images/81129.jpg" width="202" height="133" class="mt-image-right" /Our friend, a href="http://www.quizlaw.com/blog/pants_i_dont_need_no_stinkin_p.php"Judge Roy Pearson/a, has finally come to the end of his long journey, losing his a href="http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25sid=1553355"final appeal/a in his efforts to mock the legal system. /p blockquoteRoy L. Pearson, the former administrative law judge who sued his dry cleaner for $54 million over a misplaced pair of pants, lost his final appeal in the District's highest court. /blockquote blockquote "Appellant failed to establish either that the Chungs' 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' and 'Same Day Service' signs constituted false or misleading statements, or that they lost his pants./blockquote blockquote"Thus, the judgment for the Chungs on the fraud and CPPA claims was proper. Further, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying appellant's motions for a jury trial," says the D.C.'s Court of Appeals ruling. /blockquote pDamn it. I thought when someone advertised "Satisfaction Guaranteed," they meant, "If we lose your pants, we owe you $54 million." Guarantees just don't mean what they used to, I guess. /p img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/QuizLawLegalBlog/~4/489000570" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Quiz Law on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).