Pants suit judge hanging on to job by a thread

It hasn’t been easy to fire a D.C. administration law judge, thanks to a 2001 law designed to defuse politics from the little publicized but influential adjudication agency.

For months, calls have poured in from around the globe demanding the dismissal of Roy Pearson, the city judge who unsuccessfully sued a Northeast Washington dry cleaners for $54 million over a missing pair of pants.