An Expensive 'Suit'

Merriam-Webster defines egregious to mean conspicuously bad or flagrant. Judge Roy L. Pearson of Washington calls the conduct of Custom Dry Cleaners, with whom he entrusted the task of altering his designer suits, "egregious." He is suing the neighborhood cleaner for $67.3 million because they lost a pair of his pants. To me, Pearson's is the conduct that reeks of egregiousness (read: outrageousness).

The New York Times article is aptly titled Judge Tries Suing Pants Off Dry Cleaners, and is definitely worth a read. I applaud the clever copy-editor for the silly headline, which I think is quite appropriate for the ridiculousness of the described situation. The tone of the article is light-hearted and captures the absurdity of the case.

In the spirit of my inability to resist a good double entendre, I'll close with this: though, according to the article, Judge Pearson recently lowered his request for damages to $54 million, it's still quite an expensive suit.