A man who took righteous indignation to a new level was Judge Roy Pearson in the District of Columbia. The judge had his brush with celebrity of a sort when he sued a local dry cleaner for losing his suit pants--for $65,462,500.
The pants had been brought in for alteration and cleaning and had been misplaced. The proprietor offered his customer as much as $12,000 to settle the complaint, but Pearson went to court instead. He probably shouldn't have done so.
Public sentiment was heavily in favor of the Korean owner of the cleaning establishment, and Pearson, African American, was criticized for having filed a frivolous legal action, which gave the term "suit pants" a whole new, ridiculous meaning.
This strange affair ended with Pearson being financially sanctioned and, ultimately, stripped of his judgeship. His appeals have been unsuccessful.
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