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I've never found a good way of looking up court cases in california (it seems like you need PACER which is not free). Too bad, I was pretty interested in seeing how many cases he actually had filed.

I thought this was going this way, until I saw the video. The brother is legitimately terrifying. He broke her phone and blocked in her car at 2:00 which is my worst nightmare as a woman. He was screaming curses at her, pulled open her car door, and grabbed her phone from her hand and threw it at the wall. I hope the brother doesn't have a girlfriend, because he seems like the kind of domestic abuser who is going to kill someone in a fit of rage.

I'm not saying it's likely that a Judge Judy litigant was employed in a job that provides health insurance, but COBRA does work this way at least in my state. You have 60 days to enroll, and coverage is retroactive to the first day you lost coverage (as are premiums).

I freeze framed the property manager's report to see what she could possibly have been talking about. But no, it was 4-5 year old (minimum) carpet and the ceiling fan. How she managed to get that in her head to $55K was something I really wanted to see.

Maybe Judge Judy didn't want to see the claimed $55K worth of damages that the tenant did, but I sure did!

From the google street view picture, it looked like the street was two-way. Was there a stop sign? It seemed like the guy was saying that the parked van impeded his view. In that case he needed to slow down and not be going so fast that he would lose control of his car when making a right turn on a super-narrow residential street. But I really didn't understand the whole accident so maybe I'm missing something.

Yeah, I will also add that it does have an quantifiable effect. For example, when I worked in an open plan office, visitors would walk by the men closest to the door to come to ask me questions like "where is John today?" Since I do work that requires concentration, it had more of an effect on my work product than the actual 30 seconds of interruption. It might take me 5, 10, 15 minutes to get back to where I was in my work. And that's something that didn't hurt the men in the office but did hurt me. Moving to an office with cubes so I'm not visible from the door has drastically reduced these interruptions. In Adrienne's case, unconscious sexism and racism may have cost her valuable schmoozing time. I appreciated how Bruce handled it, but ideally it wouldn't have gone down like that. I really strongly disagree with this. The way people see me is different than the way people would see me if I were male-presenting. The way people see me is different than if I looked black. My personal perspective is different than that of a man, and a cis-man can't have the same view of the way women are treated (a transman may, depending on his history). To flip the issue around a bit, the experience of a man wanting to be a preschool teacher wouldn't be something my preschool teaching sister can truly understand. Intellectually, she knows that some parents might be weirded out by it, but without seeing the dirty looks and the constant low-level anxiety, she doesn't feel it viscerally. I don't think we should invalidate the experience of the less privileged because it might be divisive.

Oh, it's not really the blind part that surprises me. The government is a major employer of people with disabilities. Blind people (eg Skilcraft) make most of the office supplies used by the government. I was a government employee, and I knew of a couple blind employees who used screen readers to do their jobs. I didn't know them personally, but I don't see why this would be a total deal-breaker, as long as the tools needed are actually ADA-compliant. But that guy? Don't you need a background check for government contracting jobs?

"Occupation: Independent contractor with DOD Like the Department of Defense? Or is there another DOD I'm not thinking of? Disgusting Oily Douchebags? Debutantes and Old Dudes? Anyway, poor Rachel. I hope she can come out of this OK.

We have almost put spikes in to deter a cat. There's an outdoor cat in my neighborhood that comes to my house, jumps up on a box on the back of our house, torments our indoor cat, and tears holes in our screens (we've replaced them twice, and they have holes again now). He also pees on our stoop, I guess to show he's boss. We have put a little cat zapper on the windowsill but it didn't really help. I've gotten a water gun but he runs away before I can get to the little jerk. I figured spikes on the box he jumps on would deter him but not hurt him, but I guess not so I need another plan. Seriously, people, keep your cats in the house. I like cats, but I don't find your destructive cat cute. My own cat is destructive enough. I really disliked the plaintiffs. Maybe the cat thing colored my opinion. I find it difficult to believe that malathion, sprayed outdoors, would actually have significant respiratory effects on two unrelated people (I think some sensitivity to it might be genetic, but the obnoxious young woman was the son's girlfriend, right?).

Today's plaintiffs all annoyed the crap out of me too. My sister always wore those herringbone necklaces and they always had those kinks in them. I think it's why those chains aren't popular now.

In my jurisdiction, it's pretty uncommon for either side to be represented in a restraining order hearing, so honestly I don't think it would be all that common. At least I hope not. Though maybe the really savvy abusers, who are the best at hiding it, would also be the most likely to get an attorney and then try to recoup costs so maybe it's more of a problem than I think. Definitely don't think there's any better way to do it, we are in agreement there.

I was responding to: "If the RO is not granted by the judge, it's not fair for a person to have to pay for a lawyer to defend themselves against something they didn't do."

I don't agree that not getting a requested restraining order means you were abusing the system. The RO requester is usually acting pro se and is at a significant disadvantage should the defendant bring an attorney. In my jurisdiction, the district court judges are truly hit-or-miss in terms of competence, which doesn't help the situation. I know of several cases where a person was found guilty of assault in a criminal trial, but the victim could not get an RO against the assailant. Normally, the RO hearing is before the criminal trial. In these cases, the prosecutor will normally request a stay-away as part of either the plea agreement or the sentence, which is functionally equivalent to a restraining order except for the couple months between the RO hearing and the criminal trial.

That's hilarious and so cat-like.