Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Link to Verdict - Pants suit ironed out

Pearson v. Custom Cleaners Verdict - Offbeat: "Pearson v. Custom Cleaners Verdict

I have been inundated with requests for a full copy of the decision. Interested readers can find it here. Enjoy!

Follow the links to the 23-page opinion by Judge Bartnoff. The substantive legal analysis is at pp.19-22, following exhaustive findings. The opinion plays it very straight, and seems perfectly reasonable and persuasive to this non-expert reader. (There may be one confusion of the terms plaintiff and defendant in the midst of the opinion.)

Mr. Pearson appears to be a sad case, although not a very sympathetic one. The judge is yet to determine whether he will be liable for some or all of defendants' legal expenses, which certainly appear to be much higher than they would have been had Mr. Pearson taken a more reasonable approach to this situation.

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