Asshole of the Year
May 3, 2007
Because Pearson no longer wanted to use his neighborhood dry cleaner, part of his lawsuit calls for $15,000—the price to rent a car every weekend for 10 years to go to another business.
“He’s somehow purporting that he has a constitutional right to a dry cleaner within four blocks of his apartment,” Manning said.
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Unbelievable! I knew Americans were litigious but that is surely a joke?
You are too kind to Pearson by neglecting to mention “But the bulk of the $65 million comes from Pearson’s strict interpretation of D.C.’s consumer protection law, which fines violators $1,500 per violation, per day. According to court papers, Pearson added up 12 violations over 1,200 days, and then multiplied that by three defendants.”