‘Pants Judge’ Loses Wrongful Termination Appeal
On Thursday, a D.C. Circuit panel upheld the dismissal of a wrongful
termination suit filed by Roy Pearson Jr., the judge who hit a dry
cleaner with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over a lost pair of pants and
who was denied reappointment in 2007 to his administrative law judge
post. At issue in the suit was Pearson's contention that he was denied
reappointment because of his complaints about the peer review system in
place at the D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings.
