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Right: Jin and Soo Chung get back to their normal lives.
Jin and Soo Chung, owners of Custom Cleaners in D.C. and the winners of the “$54 million pants” case, have asked the judge in the case to order plaintiff Roy Pearson to pay their legal bills of more than $100,000.
“Economically, emotionally and healthwise as well, it has been extremely hard for us.”
– Soo Chung (l), co-defendant
Jin and Soo Chung, owners of Custom Cleaners in Washington D.C., have won the case of the $54 million pants, but their two-year ordeal isn’t over just yet.
Fighting the lawsuit has cost the Chungs tens and thousands of dollars […]
Above: The Chungs and their attorneys at a press conference Monday. Jin Chung holds the pants that set off the case.
“… Plaintiff Roy L. Pearson Jr. takes nothing from the defendants, and defendants Soo Chung, Jin Nam Chung and Ki Y. Chung are awarded the costs of this action against the plaintiff Roy L. […]
An update on the case of the 54 Million Dollar Pants– according to this article,
“A decision is now expected Monday after presiding D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff relaxed her self-imposed deadline.”
“The two-day trial earlier this month drew the ire of both trial lawyers and their critics, as well as comical punch lines for its […]
Above: Defendant Jin Chung (c) heads to court with attorney Chris Manning and members of his family. Chung holds a suit bag containing the smoking pants, as it were.
Robert Pearson vs. Custom Cleaners, or the case of the $54 million pants, ended yesterday in D.C. Superior Court with Judge Judith Bartnoff saying she’d issue her […]
Above: In this courtroom sketch, Ronald Pearson takes the stand as the Chungs look on.
“A Twilight Zone experience” — that’s how Ronald Pearson, the plaintiff and his own lawyer in the case of the $54 million pants, described the moment when defendants Jin Nam Chung and Soo Chung of Custom Cleaners allegedly gave him the […]
The Chung family, which owns Custom Cleaners in Washington D.C., is due in court on Monday to defend against a $54 million lawsuit.
The man suing this mom-and-pop dry cleaning business for that ridiculous amount is Roy L. Pearson Jr., a local judge, who claims that the Chungs lost a pair of his pants and therefore […]
(Jin Nam Chung and Ki Chung at Custom Cleaners in D.C.)
No, it’s not the title of a new sci-fi comedy. A judge in D.C. actually claims that a pair of missing pants are worth that much, all told, in his suit against a Korean immigrant family’s dry cleaning business.