News reports in the D.C. area last nite (TV/Radio) and this a.m. (newspapers, always lagging behind with yesterday's news today) note that the Korean owners of a small group of dry cleaning stores were forced to close/sell a couple of their shops thanks to the continually mounting legal bills they face as the {donkey}-hat plaintiff, Administrative Law Judge (only keeping the title because for as long as he is involved in a case he can't finish his term on the bench and likely won't find it renewed in the future) Roy L. Pearson is appealing his earlier loss in court.

Sadly this {in my opinion} CLOWN -- ooops, I really shouldn't use that label as it seriously denigrates the fine people in the clown profession -- who was granted more than enough leverage by the judge that originally heard the case just won't give it up.  He lost, not just fair and square, but very unfairly and very non-square if you are sitting in the seat of the Chungs, the South Korean immigrants that ran the dry cleaning shop.  The amount of leeway granted to Pearson was well above and beyond what most litigants in court could expect, mostly because the original judge went well out of the way to see that there were going to be no procedural errors that would let this individual, with his apparent intelligence deficit, get back into court on appeal and overturn the limited justice that was originally done when he lost the case the first time out.

Yet again this case screams for LOSER PAYS and other necessary tort reforms that will never happen as long as the trial lawyers association good friends run the Congress.  If there was LOSER PAYS involved here, this idiot (again, my opinion as we don't yet have factual proof, outside of his just pressing the case to begin with -- no pun intended in using the word pressing here) would already have been on the hook for the 10s of thousands of dollars that he has cost the poor couple that he sued.

While I hate to wish ill upon people, the thought crosses my mind that perhaps having this individual catch a shoelace in a manhole cover in the middle of street as traffic approaches too quickly might not be a bad thing.  Then again, were that to happen, there'd be absolutely no chance for the Chungs to hopefully eventually collect any of the fees that they have paid out back from this bozo.  (Again, with all due respect and apologies to the venerable Bozo the Clown.)