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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty on Wednesday filled the vacancy on the administrative law commission, opening the way for the panel to determine whether the D.C. administrative law judge who sued his dry cleaner for $54 million over a pair of pants will be appointed to another term on the bench.
The panel likely will meet within the next 10 days over the reappointment of Roy Pearson Jr., who is up for a full 10-year term after completing a two-year term in April.
The job pays more than $100,000 a year.
A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled against Pearson on Monday in a case that garnered worldwide attention and became fodder for late-night comedians. Litigation reformers used the case to argue for the need to stop frivolous lawsuits, and many questioned how the District could allow Pearson to sit in judgment of others.
Pearson’s boss, D.C. Chief Administrative Judge Tyrone Butler, recommended in a letter to the commission that it reject Pearson’s reappointment, D.C. government sources have told The Examiner.
Butler’s letter reverses his previous recommendation in support of Pearson that he sent to the commission before the pants case gained international notoriety.
Butler sits on the five-person commission as a nonvoting member. Butler would not comment on the case, according to his office.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Anita Josey-Herring was sworn in Wednesday as the third voting member.
The commission will review Pearson’s record on the bench, his actions outside the courtroom and overall reputation.
Josey-Herring has served in both the criminal and family divisions of the Superior Court. She is the presiding judge of the family court.
smccabe@dcexaminer.com
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NoCaDrummer said:
Hmmm. Seems Judge Pearson was appointed in 2005. Would that make him a Bush appointee?
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Examiner Reader said:
How this fool every got through Law School, never mind becoming a judge, I'll never know. I hope he loses this case as well. Good riddance to bad rubbish, and all that.
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Examiner Reader said:
Well, I'm not up on recent whistle blowing in the DC Courts, but it's hard to imagine any employer action, (retaliatory or otherwise), that would cause more "...damage to his career and loss of employment, humiliation, damage to his reputation..." than his idiotic and blatantly greedy lawsuit. The guy tried to (ab)use the court system as his personal lottery ticket, and he lost. Now he's whining how unfair that is. Tough. Anyone with his mentality should not be on the bench.
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Examiner Reader said:
He, and his pants, need to go away.
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Examiner Reader said:
Lack of judicial temperament, indeed. And it took six months to figure that out? He cried when he thought he'd never see HIS PANTS again? The man is a few sandwiches short of a picnic. He is not harmless; he tried to destroy a family. Could someone please make him stop this lunacy and stop wasting taxpayer money. Talk about abuse of the judicial system. What a role model!
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Examiner Reader said:
My goodness, DC! Check your spelling before hitting the "send" button.
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DC said:
Just tell me this story is a fake, It has to be. This guy need to be comminted on an emergency basics to a physiatric hospital.
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Examiner Reader said:
This guys is so Lame...
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