10/23/2007

28 Responses to “Pants Suit Judge to Lose Judgeship”

1. Patterico, this is good news. Thank God, because how could anyone appearing in his court room respect him?

   I know you’re super busy, but I came across a video I think you will enjoy and learn something from. If you don’t want to watch the whole thing, the first 12 minutes sets out the core idea. You have often accused me of being a bit too quick to jump to the conclusion that leftists are “evil” or “stupid”. And I often do think this because I don’t have any other explanation for their actions.

   This fellow has another explanation for their actions and it’s fascinating. I urge you to watch it… you might also find it an interesting item to blog about and discuss.

   Recommended link.

   Christoph (92b8f7) — 10/23/2007 @ 10:26 pm

   
   

2. This tool is still appealing the pants case! Holy Schnikeys.

   He needs to get a little more vitamin clue in his diet.

   The original article points out that he can appeal his non-reappointment.

   Don’t all y’all lawyers have a saying about the guy that represents himself? Soon-to-be-ex Judge Pearson is a walking, talking, suing manifestation of that old aphorism.

   Kevin R.C. 'Hognose' O'Brien (6854b1) — 10/23/2007 @ 10:54 pm

   
   

3. I’ve got more pressing things to worry about than what happens to this Bozo!

   daleyrocks (906622) — 10/23/2007 @ 11:01 pm

   
   

4. “Suits,” indeed. I can’t handle that kind of punishment.

   Russell (cf89ed) — 10/23/2007 @ 11:57 pm

   
   

5. I watched your video, Christoph, and found it lacking. That guy was ridiculous. “Liberals are wrong about quite literally every issue…”

   Come on.

   Russell (cf89ed) — 10/24/2007 @ 1:23 am

   
   

6. I’m glad you watched the video, Russel. I thought his central thesis was very interesting. Certainly, I am mulling it over and throwing it into my thinking process.

   Christoph (92b8f7) — 10/24/2007 @ 1:36 am

   
   

7. But don’t let Russell disuade you… I think he enters with a certain viewpoint… watch the video and judge for yourself… I thought it was a brilliant thesis.

   Christoph (92b8f7) — 10/24/2007 @ 1:44 am

   
   

8. If the suit fits…wear it.

   Justin Levine (20f2b5) — 10/24/2007 @ 3:59 am

   
   

9. Daleyrocks, this man is responsible for an innocent couple losing their livelihood thanks to his infantile and asinine lawsuit.

   It’s good to know he’s losing his.

   Unfortunately, he probably has a fat government pension. They don’t.

   Meryl Yourish (5fbdef) — 10/24/2007 @ 5:17 am

   
   

10. Meryl, I think daleyrocks was making a pun. Read it again.

    aunursa (629f14) — 10/24/2007 @ 5:28 am

    
    

11. I understand that there was a pair of pants that he rejected because, as he tearfully said, they were cuffed and never in his life has he worn pants with cuffs. I wonder whether the dry cleaners have thought to take a page from Rush’s book and put those pants up for auction on ebay.

    nk (da3e6b) — 10/24/2007 @ 5:29 am

    
    

12. I watched your video, Christoph, and found it lacking. That guy was ridiculous. “Liberals are wrong about quite literally every issue…”

    Come on.

    It seems like a reasonable statement. I can’t think of an issue where the liberal solution is not either more State intervention or the introduction of State intervention. Since the State will always, with the possible exception of war, allocate and use resources less efficiently than the free market…

    chaos (2a6b46) — 10/24/2007 @ 5:30 am

    
    

13. “Liberals”, AKA “Progressives”, ran out of good ideas decades ago. All they have left are failed ideas.

    LarryD (feb78b) — 10/24/2007 @ 5:42 am

    
    

14. His term has expired, but Pearson has remained on the payroll, making $100,000 a year as an attorney adviser for the Office of Administrative Hearings.

    It seems that he’s a politically-connected patronage hack. He will likely continue to feed from the public trough. However, hopefully, now he will only be a parasite on the taxpayers and not a danger to the litigants who would have come before him.

    nk (da3e6b) — 10/24/2007 @ 6:15 am

    
    

15. “Liberals”, AKA “Progressives”, ran out of good ideas decades ago.

    Your premiss, sir, is flawed.

    They never had any good ideas. Just ideas that sounded good because it made them feel good.

    feeling good =/= doing good.

    I understand heroin feels great. Doesn’t mean you should do it.

    Scott Jacobs (e3904e) — 10/24/2007 @ 6:29 am

    
    

16. Liberals did have good ideas. There’s nothing wrong with fostering a sense of community and cooperation or restraining the, by definition, selfish and predatory nature of the free market. They have, unfortunately, in recent decades devolved into extremist, loony *progressives*.

    nk (da3e6b) — 10/24/2007 @ 6:41 am

    
    

17. But for the fact that he made these people’s lives miserable, I sort of feel sorry for the guy. I believe his behavior is indicative of mental illness. He should be suspended from the practice of law for the safety of the public. Not sure why this hasn’t been done yet.

    dave (0606c0) — 10/24/2007 @ 6:41 am

    
    

18. Comment by Scott Jacobs — 10/24/2007 @ 6:29 am

    As good as I think your comments are, I really think you should watch the video I referred to because the idea or at least the scope its applied to is quite revolutionary.

    Christoph (92b8f7) — 10/24/2007 @ 6:44 am

    
    

19. There’s nothing wrong with fostering a sense of community and cooperation or restraining the, by definition, selfish and predatory nature of the free market.

    The problem is, the Free Market is smarter than all of us. It will find, in relatively short order, the price that is best for any product or service.

    The problem is, for most of the market, it isn’t really free. Agri prices are propped up artificially, as is fuel and anything involving steel.

    It’s depressing, really.

    Scott Jacobs (e3904e) — 10/24/2007 @ 6:54 am

    
    

20. I was talking more about the predatory Wall Street practices that led to the Crash of ’29 and the Depression. But I can also see a rationale for the government being a back-up buyer of food and other essential commodities. If you starve a farmer this year, you might be starving next year.

    nk (da3e6b) — 10/24/2007 @ 6:59 am

    
    

21. Hey, Christoph, get your own blog instead of hijacking this one.

    Kevin Murphy (0b2493) — 10/24/2007 @ 8:08 am

    
    

22. Awesome. Can we get a public beating thrown in?

    Justin (ac5fc4) — 10/24/2007 @ 8:14 am

    
    

23. There’s nothing wrong with fostering a sense of community and cooperation or restraining the, by definition, selfish and predatory nature of the free market.

    The State is not necessary to foster a sense of community and cooperation.

    It is also not necessary to retrain the selfish and predatory nature of the free market. The free market isn’t a zero-sum game. Mutually beneficial freely made trade is what the free market is.

    The Great Depression was not caused by Wall Street, it was caused by government intervention in the market. The Fed and bad banking regulations in the US and foreign countries and the government intervention in the market that was the reparation and reconstruction costs of WWI caused the Depression. Not the market.

    chaos (9c54c6) — 10/24/2007 @ 9:09 am

    
    

24. i trust that all of you railing against state intervention are steadfastly opposed to the state illegally eavesdropping on our phone calls, the war on drugs, laws against obscenity, prostitution, etc. christoph, your mantle of moral righteousness looks funny on a guy who was recently advocating nuclear war here, and shortly before that in the larry craig threads, soliciting us for sex. maybe you should spend less time on the internet and more time with your girlfriend.

    assistant devil's advocate (82629f) — 10/24/2007 @ 9:12 am

    
    

25. ADA – You would be wrong as usual. I suggest you take your first thought, reverse it, then you would have a clue what normal people think.

    You can thank me later.

    daleyrocks (906622) — 10/24/2007 @ 12:30 pm

    
    

26. Frankly his next job should be to clean up the streets now lets see them dump those liberal activist judges

    krazy kagu (a6e311) — 10/24/2007 @ 12:55 pm

    
    

27. Apparently he’s also lost his job.

    DRJ (5c60fb) — 10/31/2007 @ 6:07 pm

    
    

28. Ok, can we get Pearson put in the slammer as well ? I’m not satisfied until he’s behind bars, and along with him, the judge(s) who let his 54 million dollar suit into the courtroom(s), and his lawyers if he had any. I also wants his pension or whatever else yanked away from him and given to the dry cleaning couple to cover all their expenses.
    If all of that happens, then I’m satisfied. Lock ’em all up and force $$$,$$$ payment to the dry cleaners couple.

    SiliconDoc (da9276) — 10/31/2007 @ 6:11 pm