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Roy Pearson, the judge who is suing

Roy Pearson, the judge who is suing his former dry cleaner for $65 million in damages for a lost pair of pants, started crying in court today when describing the moment when the dry cleaner tried to give him the wrong pants. And this was after a witness called by Pearson likened her treatment by the dry cleaners to Hitler's treatment of the Jews. The judge should have invoked Godwin and declared a mistrial. Also, nice headline from CNN: Judge aims to have pants suit ironed out next week. Haw haw.

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This entry was published on June 14, 2007 at 08:10 am.

Tags for this entry:  journalism  legal  adolfhitler  holocaust  jews  godwinslaw 

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