These Lawyers and Their Suits

An administrative law judge in the District of Columbia is suing a dry cleaner for misplacing the pants from one of his suits. The pants were found after a week and have been in the office of the dry cleaner's lawyer for over a year. The top settlement offer from the dry cleaner: $12,000. What's the judge want? $65 million.

The lawsuit was filed by a District of Columbia administrative hearings judge, Roy Pearson, who has been representing himself in the case....

Manning said the cleaners made three settlement offers to Pearson. First they offered $3,000, then $4,600, then $12,000. But Pearson wasn't satisfied and expanded his calculations beyond one pair of pants.

Because Pearson no longer wanted to use his neighborhood dry cleaner, part of his lawsuit calls for $15,000—the price to rent a car every weekend for 10 years to go to another business.

"He's somehow purporting that he has a constitutional right to a dry cleaner within four blocks of his apartment," Manning said.

Judge Sues Cleaner for $65M Over Pants