Remember the idiot DC administrative judge I blogged about a while back who is suing his dry cleaners for millions of dollars because they (allegedly) lost a pair of pants? Well, trial has begun and "judge" Pearson continues to cover himself with jacknuttery:
That was before Pearson, an administrative law judge, broke down while testifying about the emotional pain of having the cleaners give him the wrong pants. It was before an 89-year-old woman in a wheelchair told of being chased out of the cleaners by an angry owner. And it was before she compared the owners of Custom Cleaners in open court to Nazis.Oy. Sometimes, a parking offense really is just a parking offense, if you know what I mean.* * *
'Never before in recorded history have a group of defendants engaged in such misleading and unfair business practices,' Pearson said in his opening statement.
It gets worse:
Judge Judith Bartnoff went to remarkable lengths to try to keep Pearson moving along while disabusing him of the notion that he represented either the tens of thousands of people who have used Custom Cleaners or the half million people in Washington who might theoretically be at risk of being dissatisfied with the shop's service.I'm surprised the judge hasn't just ordered her bailiff to kick Pearson in the butt and be done with it.
From the start, Pearson kept referring to himself as 'we,' as if he were representing everyone in town. Bartnoff was having none of it: 'Mr. Pearson, you are not a 'we.' You are an 'I.' '
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