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Mr Pearson said his rights had been violated by the dry-cleaner's
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IIMA --><!-- S SF -->A US judge has lost a $54m (£27m) claim against a South Korean dry-cleaner's who lost a pair of his trousers.
Roy Pearson, a judge of administrative law, claimed that Custom Cleaners had violated the Consumer Protection Act.
By refusing to pay him $1,000 (£500) after losing his trousers, they failed to honour a pledge to provide "Satisfaction Guaranteed", he argued.
But a Washington judge dismissed the case, which drew international attention, awarding the cleaners costs. <!-- E SF -->
Legal groups have said the case, which has dragged on for two years and involved thousands of hours of legal investigative work, has damaged the image of the US judicial system.
The National Labor Relations Board has called for Mr Pearson to be debarred so that he can no longer serve as a judge.
His case began in 2005 when Mr Pearson took several suits to his local dry-cleaner's in Washington to have some alterations made.
When he returned two days later, a pair of trousers was missing.
The South Korean family running the dry-cleaner's, the Chungs, said they found the missing trousers a few days later and tried to return them but Mr Pearson insisted they were not his. His multimillion dollar calculations for damages included the 1,400 hours he says he spent preparing the case. According to the Washington Post, he also added the cost of hiring a car every weekend to enable him to drive to an alternative dry-cleaner's for the next 10 years.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6238364.stm
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IIMA --><!-- S SF -->A US judge has lost a $54m (£27m) claim against a South Korean dry-cleaner's who lost a pair of his trousers.
Roy Pearson, a judge of administrative law, claimed that Custom Cleaners had violated the Consumer Protection Act.
By refusing to pay him $1,000 (£500) after losing his trousers, they failed to honour a pledge to provide "Satisfaction Guaranteed", he argued.
But a Washington judge dismissed the case, which drew international attention, awarding the cleaners costs. <!-- E SF -->
Legal groups have said the case, which has dragged on for two years and involved thousands of hours of legal investigative work, has damaged the image of the US judicial system.
The National Labor Relations Board has called for Mr Pearson to be debarred so that he can no longer serve as a judge.
His case began in 2005 when Mr Pearson took several suits to his local dry-cleaner's in Washington to have some alterations made.
When he returned two days later, a pair of trousers was missing.
The South Korean family running the dry-cleaner's, the Chungs, said they found the missing trousers a few days later and tried to return them but Mr Pearson insisted they were not his. His multimillion dollar calculations for damages included the 1,400 hours he says he spent preparing the case. According to the Washington Post, he also added the cost of hiring a car every weekend to enable him to drive to an alternative dry-cleaner's for the next 10 years.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6238364.stm
