Byrd is the Word

It occasionally occurs to me that the votes cast by people like these count the same as your and mine and I want to scream. Stupid, violent and gross. Does anyone have any trouble believing this guy to be a violent, dangerous sort? I sure don’t.

That reminds me of the halfwit defendant in a case against seller of a dog that the fool and his equally clueless daughter wanted to return because it wasn’t the temperament that the seller claimed. “If I buy a car and it’s not what I want I return it”. Try that sometime Mr. Clodhopper and let the rest of us know how long it takes the seller to stop laughing before they tell you to take your car and go home.

My powers of observation were so clouded by this terminally annoying harpy plaintiff that I failed to fully understand what she was suing for. But it seems that it was the 15% restocking fee plus the sales tax that wasn’t refunded. JJ would hear about the tax, but if the defendant did indeed accept the return, the sales tax should also be refunded. As much couldn’t stand the plaintiff and her twice uttered “do the math” remark to HRH, she has a point. Her remark in haterview about being glad it’s all over seemed to express some sort of relief. The same sort of relief a normal person would have after getting back 85% on the return of a custom item and claiming a small victory. What a pain in the ass she must have been.

I agree with you both. The trouble is so few litigants can be trusted with their valuation of their own time that without receipts I’m not very interested either.

I am super allergic to cats and a frequent flyer. It’s only a matter of time before I have to wage a small war over your ES cat and my anaphylaxis.

Ha! Once, when I was a kid, my mom had a jar of bath crystals for a soak. She once told me to smell them but when I did I snorted a bunch up my nose. I must have sneezed for two days straight. Now every time I hear “bath salts” I sneeze.

The latest retaliatory lawsuit by a spurned lover.

This was almost as hard to watch as a dog attack video. Here we have a responsible younger sister absolutely f'ed over by a person she should be able to look up to and trust. Instead the junkie older sister leaves the younger one with what could easily be a lifelong mess. Perhaps defendant sister has been clean and sober for 3 years as she claims. But since she's CLEARLY skipped and fails to understand steps 8 and 9 her sobriety is in serious peril. The one redeeming element of this case is we actually got to see JJ behave not as a TV character, but witness her flashing real judicial experience while using her authority to deliver justice in something more important than a $50 Craiglist television/cat fight case. Finally, young Kayla Haxton sadly has a double trouble in the form of Vada's twin sister who's also a drug and alcohol mess. Here's a semi interesting read: https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/twins-find-hope-after-addiction/article_e74f1708-a124-51d3-ba5a-161cd91edd38.html Best of luck to all involved, I guess.

There’s a guy on the CBS morning show I watch named David Begnaud. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Begnaud Catch his Emmy Awarding winning performance in the poser category some day.

They sell advertising based on ratings. Ratings are based on viewers. Bad weather attracts viewers as frightened people watch more tv news. Maybe not you or me, but you can’t argue with the data. PS, add mass shootings to that list. The old TV news adage “If it bleeds, it leads” is as true today as ever. Sadly.

The truth of it is that they’re in the business of frightening people and bad weather is good for business

I’d almost forgotten how hostile this guy was. And the “your honor” at the end of every single answer was painful to hear. There’s blind and then there’s just plain anti social. I found them both despicable and equally full of shit. I’m pretty sure the defendant is happy because the show capped the damages at $2,100. I believe that the plaintiff did indeed advance the $10,000 figure that the defendant mentioned in the hall. And I absolutely believe that the plaintiff tried to turn this happening into an income opportunity. Her haterview remark about negotiations tells me what I needed to know. There’s nothing to negotiate. Either pay the vet bills, no more no less, or I’ll see you in court. Plus, that little dog with the $40 Amazon “service dog” vest combined with her dramatic cleansing breath and namaste gesture made me almost wish the defendant’s dog bitten the plaintiff.

I think the one @AngelaHunter is referring to is the traffic accident case where the stupid, lying defendant is getting the business from HRH when his witness slowly rises as if he’s going to join the fight. EPIC when she loudly and sharply barks for him to “sit down!”

It’s the Double Lane Change ep.

Just imagine being 12 years old, running in a park with your friends, then being attacked by a 150 lb dog resulting in wounds requiring dozens of stitches to close. This defendant didn't have a pot to piss in but if he did I'd own that by the time I was done with him. Then I'd club him with it.

This case was so well presented and free of embellishment by the mom and her boy that it was a delight to watch, albeit at the expense of fascinating train wreck television. As a lifelong resident of the state of Illinois I'm both embarrassed and amused by the dregs that show up in JJ's courtroom to duke it out. Cheap microwave ovens and televisions and allegations of weed buys in Springfield. The family the other day suing each other over the shady disbursement of the proceeds from the sale of the deceased father's $12,000 home were from nearby Decatur. Is it just me of did the rest of you catch the epic 10,000 mile/deer in the headlights stare of the defendant mom? Her claim in halterview to go about her "merry way" would seem like a 180 turn in the life path she's chosen.

The morning news is 75% weather. Most of us know what the weather is or will be by either looking out the window or checking our phones. But clearly there is a huge segment of the TV viewing public that tunes in just to watch the weatherman/woman. Weather news is another cash cow, especially when they can freighten people with the latest weather calamity. Climate change has been the greatest boon to television news since the advent of color.

Thanks for the background information. The migration of Americans is such an interesting part of our history. If we follow the principle that JJ applies so often, the $40,000 or so rent the defendant paid over 48 months would probably pay for that entire mobile slum three times. Whether or not it's rentable to another party is probably no more her fault that that of the property owner. Charge her to clean up the junk she left behind and close the book on this.

Beats me, but if it were my lip I wouldn't sleep until a pathologist told me it's not melanoma.

I’ll bet even Byrd flinched and dropped his crossword puzzle when he heard that.

I can’t imagine awarding anything to the plaintiff for that hovel of a mobile home. I’d sooner live in a dumpster. Like JJ I take allegations of sexual harassment seriously. But it’s hard to take those of the mother and daughter seriously given the 4 years they lived on the same property and the timing of alleged harassment. That said, the landlord plaintiff is creepy as hell and seems perfectly capable of being a groper. He should also have those lesions on his lip biopsied. They look like trouble. Defendant’s own testimony was all anyone needed to rule against him. The obstinate fool forced the plaintiff off the road when he failed to yield the right of way while changing lanes. Defendant claims plaintiff was aggressive at the crash site. Probably. That jerk would bring out the worst in anybody.

Like the guy who begins his tale with the words “I’ll be honest with you.”

By the looks of the plaintiff’s pictures there are many, many coats of paint on those old doors. It was impossible for me to tell the difference between the job that Mr. Way Too Old and Fat to Wear That Earring and the messy paint jobs from years and years ago.

Frankly, I’m surprised she didn’t dismiss that case as soon as she learned there was another case pending. The plaintiff probably got hosed by the defendant and it’s possible that he could take an award from JJ to wipe out the money he probably wasted with the defendant and have the bike repaired properly for a second time. But it’s also very possible that he could take and award from JJ, plus and award from the second case, and spend money to improve his motorcycle thus moving past being made whole to the area of profiting. I’m also surprised that for a repair job worth $5,000 there wasn’t a written estimate/contract specifying the OEM parts the job required. Too many moving parts and too much hair on this case.

Racing Motorcycle Rip-Off?! As I watched this the plaintiff desperately trying to plead his case all I kept thinking was either I’m the same sort of dense as Mr. Cano or her highness is failing to grasp simple debits and credits. She was actually kinda cute when she admitted her mistake and granted the man a very well earned glass of water.