Some people don't learn their lessons. The pants judge is obviously one of those people. In fact, he's appealing the lower court decision.
What's worse, Pearson filed the appeal the day after the dry cleaners, in good faith, withdrew their motion to force Pearson to pay $82,000 in attorney's fees.
Pearson is soldiering on after losing a two-day bench trial in June where he wept over his missing pants, which he'd had altered because he gained weight while he was unemployed before becoming an administrative law judge in 2005.
Chris Manning, the Chungs' attorney, released a statement Tuesday: "The Chungs have done everything possible to put this nightmare behind them and return to their normal lives. They have won resoundingly at trial, raised donations from gracious private donors to pay for their litigation costs, let Mr. Pearson off the hook for personally paying their expenses and extended an olive branch to Mr. Pearson in hopes that he would end this matter and not appeal."
Manning added that Pearson has chosen "desperate irrationality over common sense and decided to appeal, unnecessarily costing the parties more wasted time and the D.C. taxpayers more wasted money."
Maybe Pearson likes being the poster boy for tort reform. He obviously doesn't care that this silliness will probably cost him his job.
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