Pearson v. Chung

Roy L. Pearson, Jr. ( b. 1949 ) is an American jurist who thereby gained notoriety that he initially sued a small cleaning service on $ 67,292,000, later reduced to 54 million dollars in punitive damages on the grounds that his pants were lost. Previously, the operator had offered him $ 12,000 comparatively.

Pearson was educated at Lake Forest College and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. At times, he taught at Georgetown University. Pearson acquired the license to practice law for the District of Columbia in 1978 and to the Supreme Court in 1985.

On 2 May 2005, Pearson became the administrative judge for Washington DC appointed.

Pearson sued a company based in the Federal Capital cleaning company to over $ 67 million due to the loss of a suit pants. The owner of the business, the South Korean immigrants Jin Nam Chung, Soo Chung and their son, Ki Chung, allegedly considered the return to Seoul.

On 30 May 2007 Pearson reduced its cause of action to 54 million dollars in damages. Among the damage positions $ 500,000 attorney's fees, $ 2,000,000 are reported for " inconvenience and mental stress" and $ 15,000 to rent a car in order to sail to another as the cleaning service of the Chungs on weekends. The remaining $ 51,500,000 should be used for the purpose that other dissatisfied customers from Washington DC Business owner could sue. Pearson focused his statement of claim in the meantime from the window of cleaning away yard signs with the words " satisfaction guaranteed " and "Finish on the same day ." Pearson was argued that the signs if they were fraud on the part of the Chungs.

On 25 June 2007, the process ended with a decision in favor of cleaning.

Pearson failed in an attempt to achieve a revision of the judgment in other instances, most recently in March 2009 before the DC Court of Appeals. As a last resort it only remains for the U.S. Supreme Court

He lost his job when his contract was not renewed at the judiciary for its Prozesswütigkeit.

Importance

The case of Pearson v. Chung drew international media attention and has become a prime example of the proponents of a reform of tort law and tort.

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