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Originally Posted by legion
I believe the judge got in quite a bit of trouble over this as well--as he should have.
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Ya think? He lost reappointment to his federal judgeship (which is under appeal for wrongful dismissal). Over $180K was raised for the dry cleaners defense fund, much from lawyers on both sides of the tort reform argument. So even lawyers rose to the occasion for this embarassment to the bar. Their total legal bill was "only" %85K so they did OK, I suppose.
An interesting side note was that the dry cleaners had an earlier dispute with him over lost clothing back in 2002. They paid him for the lost clothing and banned him from their business. He pleaded with them to allow him to continue using them as they were the only cleaners in his neighborhood.
As to the pants lawsuit, he took it all the way to DC Court of Appeals and abandoned it since cert was unlikely by SCOTUS.
He was also sanctioned in his own divorce suit the sum of $12K for filing frivolus motions and delaying litigation.