Say farewell to former administrative law judge Roy Pearson. Again. The D.C. Court of Appeals has rejected Pearson’s appeal of the $54 million lawsuit he filed over a misplaced pair of pants, WTOP is reporting. From the ruling: 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. Thus, the judgment for the Chungs on the fraud and CPPA…

Marc Fisher has the best summary of today’s arguments at the D.C. Court of Appeals. The good news for former administrative law judge Roy Pearson’s epic, seemingly unending $54 million pants lawsuit, writes Fisher, is that the three judges hearing the appeal were “not buying Pearson’s notion that a shop sign that promises ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ means that a merchant must honor any cockamamie demand that an unhappy customer might make.” We probably won’t have a…

Remember when we told you that Roy Pearson, he of the $54 million missing pants lawsuit, was refusing to fade away quietly and heading back to court to press his appeal? Well today’s the big day! Looks like the AP has a reporter at the D.C. Court of Appeals, so we’ll be waiting patiently to find out whether the three-judge appellate court panel could possibly agree to overturn the lower court ruling and order a…

That’s right, kiddos. International superstar and former administrative law judge Roy Pearson is back! Last night WJLA reported that the infamous $54 million missing pants lawsuit has actually been granted an appeals hearing by a three-judge appellate court panel. Faithful readers must realize what a thrill it was for DCist to once again set our Google image search function to “pants” upon hearing the news. It’s been more than a year since we last heard…

If there’s one local story from 2007 that Washington D.C. taxpayers are unlikely to forget, it’s the saga of former administrative law judge Roy Pearson and his multi-million dollar pants lawsuit. The defendants in the lawsuit, the Chung family, were eventually forced to close their Custom Cleaners location in Northeast D.C., and they received an outpouring of support from the community as they sought to defend themselves against what was clearly a ridiculous lawsuit….

It’s been a long, frustrating, even humiliating journey together for tax paying D.C. residents, and a man named Roy Pearson. Yesterday, it all finally came to an end, so we thought it only fitting that we should pay tribute to the former administrative law judge who, through suing his dry cleaners first for $65 million over a lost pair of pants, then later $54 million, succeeded in driving international attention to D.C.’s legal system –…

Happy Tuesday, Washington. The news broke early this morning that Judge Roy Pearson will reportedly lose his job, according to sources cited by the Post. Pearson, who infamously sued the owners of Custom Cleaners first for $65 million and then later for $54 million for misplacing a pair of his pants, is a District administrative law judge who has continued to draw a paycheck despite being taken off of his case work since the…

The Chung family, owners of the dry cleaners at the center of the infamous $54 million pants lawsuit, has been forced to close their business. Northeast’s Custom Cleaners was shuttered by the family as a result of revenue losses and the emotional toll exacted during the grueling 2-plus year lawsuit the family has endured at the hands of administrative law judge Roy Pearson. Chris Manning, the Chung’s attorney, said in an emailed statement that the…

Roy Pearson, the famed Pants Judge, has just under a week to respond to the letter he received from his employers earlier this month informing him that his job was in jeopardy. Knowing Pearson as we now do, it seems likely the Office of Administrative Hearings, which has employed him as an administrative law judge for the District (Pearson is currently serving as an attorney adviser to the OAH while his contract is under review,…

In case you missed the update in the post from earlier today, Roy Pearson has this afternoon filed paperwork to the D.C. Court of Appeals indicating he intends to appeal the judge’s decision in his $54 million civil lawsuit against Custom Cleaners. In June, D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruled in favor of the defendants, the Chung family, owners of Custom Cleaners, finding that “nothing in the law supports (the) position” that Pearson, an…