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Washington - No pair of pants is worth $54-million (about R380-million). A judge rejected a lawsuit that sought that amount by taking a South Korean dry cleaner’s promise of “Satisfaction Guaranteed” to its most legalistic extreme.

Roy L. Pearson became a worldwide symbol of legal abuse by seeking jackpot justice from a simple complaint - that a neighbourhood dry cleaners lost the pants from a suit and tried to give him a pair that were not his.

His claim, reduced from $67-million, was based on a strict interpretation of the city’s consumer protection law - which imposes fines of $1 500 per violation - as well as damages for inconvenience, mental anguish and attorney’s fees for representing himself.

A judge on Monday decided that Pearson was not entitled to a penny, and in fact owes the Chung family, owners of Custom Cleaners in northeast Washington, about $1 000 in clerical court costs.

The lawsuit filed by Pearson, an administrative law judge, has been mocked worldwide as a frivolous and outrageous legal action, and cost the Chungs two years of litigation, sleepless nights, financial and emotional stress.

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