The Oregonian reported on Friday that Sirgiorgiro Clardy, acting as his own counsel, filed a three-page complaint from the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton, Oregon, where he is currently serving a 100-year sentence after being found guilty for second-degree assault. The suit calls for the company to put warning labels on their Air Jordan shoe line and other merchandise.
The conviction stemmed from a June 2012 confrontation in which Clardy — who was wearing a pair of Jordans at the time — attacked an 18-year-old woman he forced to work as an escort, and an unidentified man who attempted to leave a Portland hotel room without paying her. The woman was beaten so badly she was bleeding from her ears, while the man required plastic surgery to repair his nose.
“Under product liability there is a certain standard of care that is required to be up-held by potentially dangerous product†Clardy wrote. “Do [sic] to the fact that these defendants named in this Tort claim failed to warn of risk or to provide an adequate warning or instruction it has caused personal injury in the likes of mental suffering.â€