Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m worried as to how things are going with the legal systems of today. Many miscarriages of justice, where the guilty go free or severely under-punished whilst the innocent get put away and abused by some truck driver called Bubba who’s in for murder and hasn’t felt the touch of a woman in years, sicken me. How can systems put in place to help society as a whole do so much wrong too?
That said, there is one case that I think the US legal system has done right.
Roy “Judge in Administrative Law” Pearson took the company “Custom Cleaners” to court, because he took the interpretation of the “Satisfaction Guaranteed” sign to the extreme. That’s $54 Million extreme.
Judge Pearson had taken his pants to the cleaners, only for 2 days later for them to be missing. Days later, the cleaners found the pants and tried returning them to the Judge, only for him to say they aren’t his. Cue him suing for various reasons, including keeping the sign up each day, and the cost of getting a cab to go to another dry cleaners every week.
Now, I’m not too sure about these things, but if a dry cleaning business was worth $54 Million, these people would have a chain of stores, instead of just a single location. Also, the cleaners offered to replace the pants too, but the Judge wouldn’t accept that courtesy. He just wanted the big money.
Judge Pearson lost. Thankfully. He may still appeal, but it’s doubtful that he will succeed.
[Via BBC News]
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