A federal judge has thrown out a wrongful-termination lawsuit by the former D.C. judge who was fired as news of his $54 million lawsuit over a pair of pants gained international attention.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle dismissed Roy Pearson’s claims that he was wrongly terminated for exposing corruption within the department where he worked as a administrative judge, the District’s Office of Administrative Hearings.

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