Judge Roy Pearson not to be Confused with Judge Roy Bean

Roy L. Pearson Jr. wanted to dress sharply for his new job as an administrative law judge in Washington, DC. So when his neighborhood dry cleaner misplaced a pair of expensive pants he had planned to wear his first week on the bench, Judge Pearson turned away from being Solomon to being just about the biggest jerk to sit on the bench. Such a jerk that he sued the cleaners for $67.3 million.

Of course, the judge's pants aren't the issue here. The whole issue is the example of our national legal excess. The judge has been lampooned on talk radio and on Internet blogs. Additionally complaints to the District of Columbia Bar and city officials from those involved with national tort reform and lawyers worried about the backlash of this suit.

Paul Rothstein, a professor of law at Georgetown University said, "I don’t know of any other cases that have been quite this ridiculous." I find the word ridiculous just too tame.

This questionable example of a judge tried to pass himself off as a "private attorney general" with a pulpit to champion the rights of DC consumers . Later this clown began to weep when he described the day he says that the cleaners tried to pass off a cheaper pair of pants. He asked for abreat and dabbed his tears as he exited the courtroom. When I worked in the courtroom, we called the grandstanding.

When the owners, Korean immigrants who came to America in 1992, could not
find one pair of pants, Judge Pearson demanded $1,150 for a replacement sit. The owners did not respond; he sued.

He has rejected three settlement offers, the latest, in March, for $12,000. Last week, Judge Pearson revised a few claims and lowered his damages request to $54 million.

Judge Pearson’s future as an administrative law judge is in limbo. His two-year term expired on May 2, and a judicial panel has yet to decide on his reappointment.

In the meantime, Judge Pearson remains on the city payroll as an attorney adviser to the Office of Administrative Hearings, at a salary of $100,512.

Person is representing himself in this action. An old saying, "A man who represents himself in court has a fool for a lawyer and a fool for a client."

It is said that 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. Judge Pearson gives th rest of humanity a bad name.

An so it goes.