SOME JUSTICE--

A ding-a-ling sued a Washington DC neighborhood, dry cleaner for $54 million bucks because the cleaner lost a pair of the ding-a-ling’s pants.

Yup, $54 million smackers. For a pair of pants!

And that figure had been reduced from the claim’s original $67 million bucks.

The case, originally filed in 2005 was finally rejected in a DC Superior Court which ordered the claimant to pay court costs of about $1,000 to the defendants.

“A motion to recover the defendant’s ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ in attorney’s fees will be considered later” according to news reports.

And, get this; the ding-a-ling claimant is himself a judge in the DC area.

Regarding the settlement, a local law professor spewed, “This case was giving American justice a black eye around the world and it was all the more upsetting because it was a judge and lawyer who was bringing the suit.”

He concluded, Monday’s ruling “restores one’s confidence in the legal system”.

Yeah, right!

My confidence will be restored in this instance when 1) the ding-a-ling claimant is removed from the bench and disbarred, 2) he is prosecuted and jailed for filing a frivolous law suit, and 3) he is ordered to personally pay actual and punitive damages to the owners of this mom and pop cleaning business.

Jeeeze! Next thing you know someone will be suing some fast food joint because their hot coffee was too hot.