Hogan said he was ending the $300-a-week additional unemployment benefit as a means to get Marylanders back to work, but a Baltimore judge shot him down.

Nearly everywhere else in the U.S., federal district court judges, and U.S. attorneys and marshals must live where they’ve been appointed, but not in the District.

A federal judge heard arguments yesterday over whether Metro should accept an ad defending Israel and pledging to “defeat jihad.”

The installation of new smart meters in D.C.’s 6,500 taxicabs will continue, ruled a judge yesterday after a company that lost a bid to provide them tried to stop a competitor’s meter from being installed.

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…