The joke is that there are laws that support that crap. Sometimes looking in from the outside to the US it seems like you are digging your own graves. It saddens me and makes me mad. The affects of laws like this to the behaviour of the people living in this country can not be any good. Just my personal thoughts.
But look on the bright side - our legal system provides us so much comedy. If I were that store owner, I'd hire Jim Adler... he will hammer and hammer and hammer... and get what she's owed!!
I think the lawsuit it completely and utterly ridiculous, but I've had some asian (both asian and south asian) dry cleaners that act completely nice and yet the first time they lose something or mess something up, they act like they don't know you and get very loud and obnoxious and want nothing to do with you. I've had a dry cleaners that actually lost clothes and denied it and then i've had a dry cleaners close down while they held 10-15 articles of quality clothing that I never recovered. I wish I could find someone to sue in that situation!
I understand that he's pissed and the settlement money. But anything beyond a million dollars is just too much. If he gets that 65 or the reduced $54 million then I doubt he'll still be around as a judge. The guy will just retire, open 10 dry cleaners across the street so he won't have to go to that (soon to be closed) dry cleaners again. I don't care how butthole-ish the Korean family were, a million dollars is excessive. He can't just take that $12,000 settlement money and give them that bad rep? I hope that every last penny he's gonna get will buy him some suffering for the rest of his life.
The guy can sue for however much he wants. He can only get what's available, and I seriously doubt this dry cleaner has $50+ million worth of assets, or a $50 million insurance policy, or the like. That said, considering what has been offered to him to date, I don't think he shoudl get anything, because he's a dick, but he had every right to expect something in the beginning.
one would think an apology and offer to replace the garment would be enough, but that would make too much sense.
Exactly. Your legal system is completely messed up if a suit like this is not thrown out immediately. The guy should get his pants back and wear them on his head and STFU.
Unlawful business practices are a b**** and a half. Civil torts are one thing, this is a guy making a mountain out of a mole hill and what is worse is he will have a lot of the law on his side on most of his claims. My guess is he ends up with about half a million in settlement cash.
while we end up with a reformed Consumer Protection law (the onehe's abusing) which will take away even less protection from consumers.
The last thing they want to do is throw out that suit -- that's how this whole mess got started in the first place.
Soo is getting sued by the judge but the judge wants to throw out the suit because Soo threw out the judge's suit but the suit wasn't supposed to be thrown out and because the suit wasn't thrown out now the suit won't be either.
Everybody hates lawyers (and judges and anyone) who file $65 million suits over a pair of missing pants...that aren't missing. This is not the little guy standing up to the evil corporate overlords in court...this is the big guy using his power on a petty dispute. It's disgusting.
