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Friday, June 8th, 2007What am I missing here?
First, Paris Hilton gets out of jail after 3 or so days of her sentence because the prison food is beneath her. Sure, she’s probably going back to jail, but that really doesn’t undermine the fact that she was, in fact, released. That decision was actually made.
Now I hear about a judge, yes a J-U-D-G-E judge, who is suing a dry-cleaner over the loss of a pair of pants.
Not unusual, you might say, but the fact of the matter is he’s suing for $54 Million. I’ll give that a chance to sink in.
$54 Million.
It’s a pair of pants.
There’s a scene in the film The Last Boy Scout where Bruce Willis makes fun of Damon Wayans’ $600 pants. I wonder what he’d say about this.
Anyway, here’s the story.
Judge Sues Dry Cleaners For $54 Million
Remember that judge who was seeking $67 million from a dry cleaners that lost his pants? Now, he’s asking for only $54 million, according to a May 30 court filing in D.C. Superior Court. (Click here for the AP story; click here and here for prior Law Blog posts.)
Roy Pearson, a D.C. administrative law judge, first sued Custom Cleaners over a pair of pants that went missing two years ago. He was seeking about $65 million under the D.C. consumer-protection laws and almost $2 million in common law claims.
He is now focusing his claims on signs in the shop that have since been removed. The suit alleges that the Chungs, the shop’s owners, committed fraud and misled consumers with signs that claimed “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Same Day Service.” But Chris Manning, the Chungs’ attorney, says that the fraud claim carries a “reasonable person” standard, and no reasonable person would interpret them to be an unconditional promise of satisfaction, he says.
Pearson, who is representing himself, said in an e-mail to the AP reporter that from the start, the case’s focus was based on the “false, misleading and fraudulent advertisements displayed by the Chungs.”
Skank Hilton Released
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Ok, this idiot drives drunk. More than once. Gets arrested and sentenced to 45 days. Serves 5 days, and is released due to “medical reasons.”
WTF?
Sure, now she’s under house arrest. Big fucking deal. She gets to hang out at home for a month.
She’s a God damn worhtless human being. She never did anything to deserve to be famous, yet people adore this piece of trash.
Now, she’s walking proof that the law doesn’t apply to celebrities. Our society is so obsessed with these idiots that we let them get away with whatever they want. Oh, poor Paris Hilton. She’s too good for prison.
She’s sick, so fucking what? If it were anyone else, they’d have been sent to the prison infirmary.
God damn it, this pisses me off. Here, read the article from CNN.com:
Next Entries »LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Paris Hilton was let out of jail Thursday morning, days after she began serving what was to have been a 45-day sentence for violating probation, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
Hilton must wear a monitoring bracelet and remain at her home for another 40 days, said sheriff’s department spokesman Steve Whitmore.
Medical considerations “played a part” in the decision to offer Hilton home confinement for the remainder of her sentence, Whitmore said. (Watch Whitmore detail Hilton’s deal
)
He said privacy rules prohibited him from giving details about the medical issues, but celebrity Web site TMZ.com earlier quoted sources saying Hilton was refusing to eat much of the jail food served her.
Whitmore said that after “extensive consultation with medical personnel” it was decided to offer Hilton “reassignment” to home confinement, which she and her attorneys accepted. (Watch Hilton enter jail
Part of the deal was that her original sentence of 45 days, which had been reduced to 23 days if she showed good behavior behind bars, would be restored to the full length. Although she reported to the jail just before midnight Sunday and departed in the early hours of Thursday, she was given credit for five days, he said.
Whitmore said the decision to send Hilton home was made by a panel of officials in the sheriff’s department, although the judge who sentenced her was advised of the move.
Hilton was arrested on charges of drunken driving in September.
In January, she pleaded no contest to a charge of alcohol-related reckless driving. She was sentenced to three years’ probation and had her license suspended.
In February, she was caught driving on a suspended license, which later was ruled a probation violation.
Hilton entered jail Sunday after attending the MTV Movie Awards, where she answered questions from the press and was the subject of host Sarah Silverman’s jokes.
