In a song titled When You Gonna Wake Up by Bob Dylan, he says that America is filled with “lawbreakers making rules.”

www.bobdylan.com/moderntimes/songs/wakeup.html

Here’s a case that proves it. Maybe you’ve heard about the Korean couple Jin and Soo Chung who operated a dry cleaning shop call Custom Cleaners. They were sued for $54 million over a lost pair of pants even though they offered up to $12, 000 in compensataion. The pants were supposedly worth $800. Even though the couple won the case, they shut down their business due to emotional and financial fatigue. Well, what’s the big deal. Outrageous lawsuits are common; they happen every day.

One thing that sets this one apart is that the lawsuit was brought by a D.C. administrative law judge. You see, Judge Roy Pearson was about to start his first day of work as a judge and these were his prize pants that he wanted to wear (Roy might disagree with the saying that pants don’t make the man).

My question is how did this thinking make it out of whatever law school Judge Pearson attended. Makes you question the quality of the education that the judge received. Can this type of thinking that seems so juvenile be trusted in our courts? Our prayer should be, Lord, save us and our children from selfish, stupid thinking that has nothing to do with the kingdom of God, the sick, the hungry, those in prison and the soon return of Jesus. It will be the grace of God that allows any of us to not lose our head when everyone else seems to be losing theirs.