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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Roy L. Pearson Jr., plaintiff in the $54 million lost-pants lawsuit that drove Washington, D.C.’s Custom Cleaners to the brink of bankruptcy, may soon lose his job as an administrative law judge.

A city commission voted against Pearson’s reappointment to the bench, according to sources speaking anonymously to the Washington Post. Pearson was up for appointment to a 10-year term at the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) after serving an initial two-year term.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — D.C. administrative judge Roy Pearson filed an appeal this morning to overturn the verdict in the ongoing $54 million lawsuit he brought against Custom Cleaners operators So Jin and Soo Chung over an allegedly lost pair of pants. Judge Judith Bartnoff ruled against Pearson in D.C. Superior Court in June, rejecting his claim and charging him the Chungs’ court costs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Roy Pearson, the District of Columbia judge who lost his $54 million lawsuit against the operators of Custom Cleaners last month, filed a motion last week seeking to reverse D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff’s verdict in the case.

Bartnoff ruled last month that Pearson’s case had no merit, awarding him none of the $54 million in compensation he sought for an allegedly missing pair of pants. She also charged the defendants’ court costs to the plaintiff.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Judge Roy Pearson, the plaintiff in the $54 million lost-pants lawsuit against Custom Cleaners, broke down and cried during testimony in D.C. Superior Court last week, before reducing his claim to a comparatively reasonable $2.5 million.

“Never before in recorded history has a group of defendants engaged in such misleading and unfair business practices,” Pearson said in his opening statement. He then presented eight witnesses who related unhappy experiences with Custom Cleaners.