DebbieW

I love a good JJ smackdown as much as anyone, but I’m frequently annoyed by the total dismissal of a suit because the plaintiff doesn’t have evidence to her satisfaction. Just saw the case where the guy fell asleep at the wheel leading to an accident, and the woman was found to have “contraband” in her purse during the accident investigation. He paid for her lawyer (and the woman acknowledged that) but he had gathered money from various sources to pay the lawyer so he didn’t have a receipt, but he had a text message from the defendant saying she would pay him back. Case dismissed. Yes, the plaintiff deserved a bitch slapping for being stupid, but the defendant got away without any consequences.

Yes, but then we would be stuck with nothing but dog bite and "I borrowed him that money" cases.

I haven't seen the Black Velvet case yet, but I'm prepissed off. He sounds like a sick stalker and she sounds like an opportunist. If the roles had been reversed, JJ would have chastised the woman for being stupid enough to shower a perfect stranger with expensive gifts.

I just watched a case (not sure if it was a repeat) where the soccer team members all had too much to drink at a teammate's home and slept over. The owner of the home allegedly took the plaintiff's car without permission to drive someone home (who was conveniently not there) and crashed it into a median wall. JJ found for the defendant due to lack of evidence. The plaintiff had text messages saying that the damages would be paid for, but the defendant kept denying that she had sent them. She said something right before JJ left the bench that pissed me off and I couldn't believe that JJ didn't catch it. When asked if the text messages were sent from her phone, she replied "It's not in my name, it's not my phone." She had an arrogance about her that set my teeth on edge from the beginning, but that was the icing on the cake.

I'm OCD about several things. Whenever I start filling out a form that is completed over several days or weeks, I HAVE to use the same pen.

And the little douche said that the plaintiff should just suck it up because he's a security guard. He needed to be punched in the throat.

I just caught that case. Some important distinctions (to defend the honor of my profession as an actual Special Education Teacher): The "I seen" witness was a special ed. teaching assistant. While teaching assistants are generally very nice people with a genuine affection for and desire to help children, there are no real qualifications that need to be met in most districts other than passing a background check. The defendant said she was a substitute teacher. Again, no real qualifications are necessary in most districts, aside from availability, a pulse, and passing a background check (although some of the services that work with schools to provide subs require 60 college credits, none of which needs to be in education).

Did anyone see her actual teaching certificate? JJ's litigants are not necessarily known for their forthrightness and honesty.

I so wanted to see that defendant get punched in the throat.

I didn't really like or dislike Donna. I just sort of accepted that she was necessary at some points so that other characters could explain what was going on or to provide background. The fact that she was always where she didn’t seem to belong bothered me, though. I always wondered why she would have access to situations when no one else’s assistants were present

My 15 year old son indulges my JJ habit by staying in the room and reading a book while I watch. When the whacked out breast pump plaintiff told JJ "You will hear me out," even my spawn put down his book and said "whoa".

Plus, a $5000 penalty, paid to each of us, if you retell the same bullshit story that JJ saw right through during your hallterview. It's really annoying when they get out there and simply repeat everything they already said while claiming that JJ didn't give them a chance to present their case.

Just caught a rerun where a woman was suing her friend / employee for taking her car without permission (according to her) to complete a cleaning job while she was away. The plaintiff proceeded to tell a completely different story than the one she had signed, sworn to, and submitted. She then had the nerve to look incredulous when JJ confronted her with that fact. Newsflash asshat litigants: JJ reads the shit you submit.

I always liked the way Merlin felt free to bust Arthur's chops (even though it often meant that Merlin was punished in some way)..

I appreciated Uther much more after my rewatch. He's an easy character to dislike if you don't take the time to look at his backstory or the motives for the things he does.

Take a shot every time Morgana does the sweet innocent look to someone's face and turns away to make evil bitchface. Take two shots every time Arthur embarks on a mission that the Crowned Prince / King should never be part of, especially while he has no heir.

I use Toby's line "I have no new information since the last time you asked that question" all the time!

The thing that gave me actual chills during ITSOTG was when Bartlet was looking in on Josh's surgery after footage of airports being closed, military movement, and everything else that was going on because of the shooting, and said "Look what happened." It was so touching that in the midst of everything else, Josh was what mattered to him. I also loved his obvious concern for Charlie's feelings when he found out that he was the intended target. Bonus: Sam taking the crab puff off of the snooty radio host's plate in the episode about dealing with the fallout of the shooting.

I felt the same way about the speech at the end, but I loved the basketball game. Write about that there, Byron.

A lot of the dumbasses that MM sees come from NJ, so I feel your pain.

In order to be a true JJ episode, someone for whom you've done the fixing would have to sue you for harassment. Plus, you speak too goodly to make the cut.

When we had my daughter's boyfriend on our phone plan for awhile I told him that I was saving the text that said he would pay every month in case we ever ended up on JJ.

I'm doing the rewatch, but a bout with a sinus infection had me on the couch for several days so I'm waaaayyyyyyy ahead. I really liked Abbey early in the series but must admit that I feel like she turned into a real bitch - some of it justified, but a bitch nonetheless. During Zoey's kidnapping drama, she pissed me off when she got all high and mighty about the assassination of Shareef. I totally get that she saw it as a cause/effect and I can get behind that. But every time I see it and she yells at the President "It was YOUR decision, not OURS!" I yell at the TV "No one elected you!!!" I may need therapy. But towards the end when the MS became more of a factor I really started to dislike her. She wasn't a newbie to the White House. She knew what the schedule was like and, even more importantly, she new what Jed was like. I found it annoying and unnecessary that she put CJ in the middle and bitched at her over bothering her husband over global emergencies when he needed his rest. Had he stopped being both a big boy who can make his own decisions and the President at that point?

I'm a few days behind so I haven't seen the Dry Cleaner case, but going by what I've been reading here it sounds like it wasn't the money but the principle of the thing. MM always says that's what most civil claims boil down to. If the dry cleaner lost my property through his own carelessness, you'd better believe I'd expect him to bend over backwards to make it right. I don't know how the plaintiff acted at any time during the whole issue, but if you've been negligent in providing the service or caring for my property, you need to bend over and take my attitude. If you act like a dick, things will get really ugly really fast. And any customer who doesn't say "Hey, this isn't mine. I never brought in a comforter." and takes it home with them anyway isn't going to return it. It's gone.

Now that I'm on my 4th or 5th rewatch, I find myself becoming very annoyed by some really insignificant details that I can now notice. For example, I just finished the episode in the 2nd season where Josh and Sam almost start a fire in the mural room by trying to use the fireplace. Turns out that the flue was welded shut back in the 1800's sometime. But in the 1st season episode where Mendoza gets confirmed, there's a roaring fire going on in that very same fireplace while the staff celebrates. I need a life.