All Episodes Talk: All Rise

[Guest]

The most interesting thing about the custody case was the matter left unaddressed: why the Plaintiff, a large, burly man, carried his cell phone around in a white cell phone purse. 

I got a rerun case of a loony French lady suing a guy for slapping her car after she started a fight with him at a stop sign. The case was from 2014? I've no memory of ever having seen it before. After tomorrow, I'll likely have no memory of it again.

[WaitForMe]

1 minute ago, Giant Misfit said:

The most interesting thing about the custody case was the matter left unaddressed: why the Plaintiff, a large, burly man, carried his cell phone around in a white cell phone purse. 

I got a rerun case of a loony French lady suing a guy for slapping her car after she started a fight with him at a stop sign. The case was from 2014? I've no memory of ever having seen it before. After tomorrow, I'll likely have no memory of it again.

I remember it because JJ actually told her to "shut up"! ?

[Brattinella]

1 hour ago, WaitForMe said:

I remember it because JJ actually told her to "shut up"! ?

A great moment in JJ history!

[AZChristian]

I remember her because I thought her accent sounded fake, and I've never thought of Patricia as a French name.

[Jamoche]

1 minute ago, AZChristian said:

I remember her because I thought her accent sounded fake, and I've never thought of Patricia as a French name.

She sounds like a Swiss friend of mine, if she'd turned the accent up to 11.

[Silver Raven]

1 hour ago, Giant Misfit said:

The most interesting thing about the custody case was the matter left unaddressed: why the Plaintiff, a large, burly man, carried his cell phone around in a white cell phone purse. 

I got a rerun case of a loony French lady suing a guy for slapping her car after she started a fight with him at a stop sign. The case was from 2014? I've no memory of ever having seen it before. After tomorrow, I'll likely have no memory of it again.

I swear I thought she accused the guy of eating her car.

[ElleMo]

3 hours ago, Brattinella said:

I don't have the foggiest idea.

I was confused as well.   Perhaps because Judge Judy didn't listen to her side at all?  

[califred]

And it's not like she's actually out the money.  The show will pay.  She was incensed.  

 

I got a Grandma suing for her granddaughters social security (the mom was dead) and the dad kept it.  Turns out Gma picked up the girl wo the dad knowing but she was offered Temp and then permanent guardianship so I'm guessing there were issues.

[Jamoche]

1 hour ago, ElleMo said:

I was confused as well.   Perhaps because Judge Judy didn't listen to her side at all?  

But she was all chirpy when JJ told her she wasn't getting any of the money she asked for, it was losing the countersuit that made her flip out.

[vibeology]

I think it's because that means she has to keep the horse and she doesn't want that. I don't quite get why since she could sell it if it's a question of the costs involved but she seemed okay not getting money back for boarding the horse so it has to be because she is now the owner. 

[basiltherat]

I believe on the cat bite case that the $9,000 paid by the bite-ee was HER co-pay that her insurance didn't pay, and that is why JJ was incensed.

[AuntiePam]

20 minutes ago, basiltherat said:

I believe on the cat bite case that the $9,000 paid by the bite-ee was HER co-pay that her insurance didn't pay, and that is why JJ was incensed.

Maybe, but the award was $3300.  If the plaintiff's co-pay had been $9000, JJ would have awarded her the full $5K. 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, basiltherat said:

I believe on the cat bite case that the $9,000 paid by the bite-ee was HER co-pay that her insurance didn't pay, and that is why JJ was incensed.

Yeah, I'm with @auntiepam -- that entire bill was for $9,000. The $3,300 was the co-pay. And as someone who used to have shitty, high co-pay, high deductible health insurance, I can totally sympathize with that kind of insane out-of-pocket expense though. 

[augmentedfourth]

1 hour ago, Giant Misfit said:

Yeah, I'm with @auntiepam -- that entire bill was for $9,000. The $3,300 was the co-pay. And as someone who used to have shitty, high co-pay, high deductible health insurance, I can totally sympathize with that kind of insane out-of-pocket expense though. 

That was my take on it, too. We generally have excellent health insurance. HOWEVER, within the past year, either the insurance company itself or the third-party company who handles it for Mr. Fourth's employer (and others) came up with a new rule, which I have mixed feelings about: if you go to the ER and they decide that even if you're admitted, whatever brought you to the ER was not a life-or-death situation, you're on the hook for all the ER expenses. (I do not know what the appeal process for that is like; based on my experience with money-related appeals, I'm guessing not good.) So that $3,300 co-pay was not surprising at all.

 

Every time they do something shitty, I just have to keep reminding myself how little I pay for my very expensive medications for chronic illness. Also, even though I think they fucked us over a little with specialist co-pays when my daughters were in the NICU, considering each one cost over $50,000, I just have to keep smiling....

[Silver Raven]

2 hours ago, Giant Misfit said:

Yeah, I'm with @auntiepam -- that entire bill was for $9,000. The $3,300 was the co-pay. And as someone who used to have shitty, high co-pay, high deductible health insurance, I can totally sympathize with that kind of insane out-of-pocket expense though. 

Not necessarily, it depends on the statutory limitation in the state they came from.

[BubblingKettle]

Did Heaven Necktat have lockjaw?  I think he should have asked for a tetanus shot while he was getting his "good-hearted dog" vaccinated. And the plaintiff's children were so cute. The little girl was adorable with her pigtails/flower barrettes and white Mary Janes. She sure was squinting at something though. Maybe she was trying to figure out what Byrd was writing. (It's a crossword puzzle, hon.)

[Guest]

2 hours ago, augmentedfourth said:

if you go to the ER and they decide that even if you're admitted, whatever brought you to the ER was not a life-or-death situation, you're on the hook for all the ER expenses.

"This is some kind of country we're livin' in." 

[Brattinella]

1 hour ago, CoolWhipLite said:

Did Heaven Necktat have lockjaw?  I think he should have asked for a tetanus shot while he was getting his "good-hearted dog" vaccinated. And the plaintiff's children were so cute. The little girl was adorable with her pigtails/flower barrettes and white Mary Janes. She sure was squinting at something though. Maybe she was trying to figure out what Byrd was writing. (It's a crossword puzzle, hon.)

This is EXACTLY what I said to Mr Brattinella!  I thought maybe his jaw was wired shut, but hubby said he was just trying to be "hard".

[SandyToes]

Heaven'Leigh.

Sigh.

[ItsHelloPattiagain]

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I'm in the "my cat bit me" club.  The urgent care physician I saw told me that cat bites are ALWAYS serious, because of the way they bite.  Dogs tend to bite down and tear . . . cats bite down, and then release, so all the nasty germs in their mouths tend to stay inside the wound and are not easily flushed out.

I had four cats years ago (they just start multiplying on you) and I got a pretty serious scratch when I was trying to cut one of the cat's claws that had wrapped up on itself like a spring. Do you know how nasty cat claws are? They are like poop collectors - remember cats scratch in the litter pan full of kitty nuggets and pee and dig in the yard in the dirt. I had to go on antibiotics and my lymph nodes got swollen up (yes, "Cat Scratch Fever" is not just a Ted Nugent song lol)  

Plus the cat bit a traveling nurse. I'm sure that nurse wanted to make sure she was able to travel (traveling nurses make TONS of money - they don't get benefits at their temporary hospitals so the money goes into their pockets - they sometimes make $10-$20 more PER HOUR than regular nursing staff). 

All this cracker talk is making me hungry. . . my cracker crack-of-choice is Ritz crackers. Mmmm I could eat a whole sleeve of those babies right now. . . . . 

[Silver Raven]

JJ was absolutely hateful with that couple suing over the stuff they claimed was left behind when they were kicked out of their place.  Another one of those cases of people collecting unemployment who are less than dirt in her eyes.

[AuntiePam]

2 minutes ago, Silver Raven said:

JJ was absolutely hateful with that couple suing over the stuff they claimed was left behind when they were kicked out of their place.  Another one of those cases of people collecting unemployment who are less than dirt in her eyes.

Yeah, she's not very sympathetic.  Being able to do chores and work around the house doesn't mean you can find a job.  Of course he probably can work -- if someone will hire him -- not likely if he answers truthfully to the 'Have you committed a felony?' question.  (Or however that question is worded.)  They weren't asking for anything they weren't entitled to, and there was no issue about unpaid rent.  If defendant damaged or stole their property, she should pay. 

JJ questioning whether or not an unemployed person should have a big TV -- reminds me of a FOX anchor saying there's no poverty in the US -- 95% of homes have refrigerators! 

That said, I wish people would re-think huge visible tattoos.  And those eyebrows -- way too big. 

[DoctorK]

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And those eyebrows -- way too big. 

Hey, it worked for Groucho!

[Quof]

Judy's beef with the plaintiff tenants was twofold:

(1) the expensive possessions were no doubt purchased with the proceeds of Boyfriend's drug dealing, since neither of them had been gainfully employed in the recent past;

(2) they lied when they said they never came with a truck to pick them up.  When she finally admitted that they had (only because Judy was off to phone the neighbor), Glass Blower Big Brows giggled and said she misunderstood, she thought Labor Day was July 4.  

Once you lie to Judy, she doesn't believe anything else you tell her.  I'm the same way.  

[Puffaroo]

5 minutes ago, Quof said:

(2) they lied when they said they never came with a truck to pick them up.  When she finally admitted that they had (only because Judy was off to phone the neighbor), Glass Blower Big Brows giggled and said she misunderstood, she thought Labor Day was July 4. 

Between that and Heaven'Leigh not knowing what quarantine is, I'm thinking we have GOT to improve our public education.

Edited February 1, 2017 by Puffaroo

[AngelaHunter]

20 hours ago, Brattinella said:

I remember it because JJ actually told her to "shut up"! ?

It's not the first time. She also said that to a silly, dreary little droning twerp being sued by her ex-boyfriend (Said twerp had a cop there as witness and he had to admit, to his great embarassment, that she lied to him too) "Why don't you Shut. Up!" JJ told her, and none too soon. We've also heard Byrd tell a litigant to shut up. It doesn't happen nearly often enough, IMO.  I thought JJ showed great restraint with that fake-French, grinning moron.

12 minutes ago, Quof said:

Once you lie to Judy, she doesn't believe anything else you tell her.  I'm the same way.  

Why would she? It's pretty hard to say, "Okay, what I said before? All lies, but I swear I'm telling the truth now." Whatevah.

[BalsoSnell]

45 minutes ago, SandyToes said:

Heaven'Leigh.

Sigh.

Exactly what I came here to say.

[SandyToes]

42 minutes ago, ItsHelloPattiagain said:

All this cracker talk is making me hungry. . . my cracker crack-of-choice is Ritz crackers. Mmmm I could eat a whole sleeve of those babies right now. . . . . 

"Mmmm. Good cracker.  Good cracker."

#ImissAndy

[chenoa333]

Being a veterinary tech/assistant for many years, allowed me the unfortunate experience of being bitten by both cats 2x and a yorkie once, and Chihuahua once. I almost lost my arm from the yorkie bite. Just because it's teeth/gums were so disgusting and infected from lack of care. Not discriminating against yorkies, just saying..

[Cobalt Stargazer]

8 hours ago, SandyToes said:

Heaven'Leigh.

Sigh.

Casteel? Please say yes. [/V.C. Andrews Fan]

[ElleMo]

9 hours ago, augmentedfourth said:

That was my take on it, too. We generally have excellent health insurance. HOWEVER, within the past year, either the insurance company itself or the third-party company who handles it for Mr. Fourth's employer (and others) came up with a new rule, which I have mixed feelings about: if you go to the ER and they decide that even if you're admitted, whatever brought you to the ER was not a life-or-death situation, you're on the hook for all the ER expenses. (I do not know what the appeal process for that is like; based on my experience with money-related appeals, I'm guessing not good.) So that $3,300 co-pay was not surprising at all.

 

Every time they do something shitty, I just have to keep reminding myself how little I pay for my very expensive medications for chronic illness. Also, even though I think they fucked us over a little with specialist co-pays when my daughters were in the NICU, considering each one cost over $50,000, I just have to keep smiling....

 

We had insurance like that several years ago. That is one of the reasons that a lot of walk-in clinics are thriving.  They are not open 24 hours but they have some pretty long hours, usually 7 days a week and are a great place to go when you don't want to wait to see your doc but want to avoid the hospital.  Been there a few times.  Really scary thing, though, is that the place was in the paper because they successfully treated a girl with anaphylaxis.  I am glad she is ok but it is scary that people might go there instead of a hospital.  Anaphylaxis can become life threatening pretty quickly.  You really want to be in a hospital. Wonder if the patient did that because of the cost involved.

Our current insurance has a deductible of $2,500 for in network and $5,000 for out of network, which means we have to spend that much money before the insurance company pays anything at all. I think there is a deductible on top of that just for hospital bills.  Once you reach the deductible, though, they cover A LOT, including most of your hospital bills. There is also a cap on the amount that you have to pay and once you meet it, they pay everything 100%. (don;t know the amount off hand) So while it sucks for the average person who needs to see a doctor and maybe fill a prescription, I imagine it is great coverage for someone with very serious health issues. 

[Guest]

13 hours ago, AuntiePam said:

And those eyebrows -- way too big. 

Someone needs to tell her that a pod of Anastasia Beverly Hills Dip Brow is not "single use" but should last over a year. On the other hand, maybe she was hoarding it on her face so the Defendant didn't have access to any.  

The eyebrow craze is getting out of hand. There are girls at the local Sephora who have eyebrows that appear to have been inspired by John Wayne Gacy's clown make up. 

[Quof]

I may have to step away from JJ.  Yesterday I almost said to a whiny plaintiff "The only one here with pain and suffering is me!".   But I didn't.   

[SandyToes]

8 hours ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

15 hours ago, SandyToes said:

Heaven'Leigh.

Sigh.

Casteel? Please say yes. [/V.C. Andrews Fan]

Not sure about your reference, but if there is such a name out there, somewhere, and the defendant's a name is taken from that source, then that's a little better.   I had a student once with a creatively spelled name, and the lament was there was no little bicycle license plate with his name on it. Bummer.

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I may have to step away from JJ.  Yesterday I almost said to a whiny plaintiff "The only one here with pain and suffering is me!".   But I didn't.   

No kidding, right?  More wine!

[Brattinella]

I think the "Heaven Leigh" reference was to a litigant, a burly male with a neck tat.

[Ocean Chick]

That's where the disconnect was.  I've heard of Heaven Leigh used as a girl's name.  Never a boy's name.  I had to read that several times before I actually accepted that his mama named him that.

[Toaster Strudel]

17 hours ago, Quof said:

Judy's beef with the plaintiff tenants was twofold:

(1) the expensive possessions were no doubt purchased with the proceeds of Boyfriend's drug dealing, since neither of them had been gainfully employed in the recent past;

(2) they lied when they said they never came with a truck to pick them up.  When she finally admitted that they had (only because Judy was off to phone the neighbor), Glass Blower Big Brows giggled and said she misunderstood, she thought Labor Day was July 4.  

Once you lie to Judy, she doesn't believe anything else you tell her.  I'm the same way.  

Exactly and they had four cats in one room???

Peeking at their social media... drugs are indeed high (pun intended) priority for them and I'll bet anything her "glass art" is bongs.

Those eyelid tattoos OMG what a way to quickly advertised you've been in jail for a long sentence?

Giant painted eyebrow girlfriend looked good, but she has to be a huge loser to consider this guy a catch.

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, Toaster Strudel said:

Giant painted eyebrow girlfriend looked good, but she has to be a huge loser to consider this guy a catch.

Eyebrows! Groucho Marx would have been awed. I didn't finish this case because of TatooBoi, a 29 year old man who can't work at any paying job because he's been waiting for shoulder surgery for two years ("One shoulder. No, both actually!") but who CAN work at mommy's business for cash, do almost ALL the maintenence on the apartment building and let his 21-year old ditzy g/f support him. I couldn't take any more. There's something seriously wrong in the noggin of the Eyebrow Girl, if this is what she chooses to be with. Really, Miss - I'm sure if you really looked you could find another short, homely, tatted up, ex-jailbird loser who might actually have some kind of J-O-B.

[SRTouch]

20 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

It's not the first time. She also said that to a silly, dreary little droning twerp being sued by her ex-boyfriend (Said twerp had a cop there as witness and he had to admit, to his great embarassment, that she lied to him too) "Why don't you Shut. Up!" JJ told her, and none too soon. We've also heard Byrd tell a litigant to shut up. It doesn't happen nearly often enough, IMO.  I thought JJ showed great restraint with that fake-French, grinning moron.

Why would she? It's pretty hard to say, "Okay, what I said before? All lies, but I swear I'm telling the truth now." Whatevah.

Yeah, most of the cases are big on credibility, so try to keep the lies for the hallterview or the story you tell when you get home after the free vacation  from production.

[pagooey]

So, the "glass art" Eyebrows McGlassblower sells on line is just...bongs, right? Reams and reams of bongs?

[Quof]

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Yeah, most of the cases are big on credibility, so try to keep the lies for the hallterview or the story you tell when you get home after the free vacation  from production.

Like when Quinceanera Mom was called out on her lie that they only had 515 guests, when she previously told the producer she had 600.   Bam - event planner gets paid for 85 extra guests. 

[AlleC17]

On 1/31/2017 at 7:47 PM, vibeology said:

I think it's because that means she has to keep the horse and she doesn't want that. I don't quite get why since she could sell it if it's a question of the costs involved but she seemed okay not getting money back for boarding the horse so it has to be because she is now the owner. 

The horse was lame, and would have little if any value.  At least, she claimed the horse was lame.  Her histrionics were over the top, however, there are so many unscrupulous people who will pull all sorts of crap to cause a lame horse to look sound, so her case may have had some merit...which we viewers will never know as JJ kept it to herself.  She must have read something in the complaint, as she seemed against the Fainting Lady from the get go.

[Jamoche]

I heard "dog" and hit mute, so I can only wonder at the logic of appearing in court in something better suited to a cocktail party - dangly earrings, updo, and sleeveless little black dress. Un-muted enough to hear that cocktail mom wants plastic surgery for her daughter's dog bite, which JJ counters by describing as barely a nick. The kid looks to be 7, so still at an age where the scar is likely to fade on its own.

[bear1]

I agree that those were some serious tats and her big glasses that went with her eyebrows, but I kept looking at the defendant thinking could you maybe brush your hair considering you're going to be on TV.

[shksabelle]

Case today, P has a dog that is a dingo/pit bull mix!!!!

Guess he never saw Out Of Africa: "The dingo ate my baby!"

[Guest]

1 hour ago, shksabelle said:

Case today, P has a dog that is a dingo/pit bull mix!!!!

The dog was named Cuddles.

[chenoa333]

I feel so left out on the JJ thread. I almost never see the same episodes that people are posting about.

Today's episodes were about light physical violence brought on by triflin' folks fighting  about dumb shit.

And a very attractive young lady and her very old parents who got ripped off by some sheister who took the woman's money for a deposit on a wedding venue That had no heat in the building.

 Boring....all of them.

[WaitForMe]

15 minutes ago, chenoa333 said:

I feel so left out on the JJ thread. I almost never see the same episodes that people are posting about.

Today's episodes were about light physical violence brought on by triflin' folks fighting  about dumb shit.

And a very attractive young lady and her very old parents who got ripped off by some sheister who took the woman's money for a deposit on a wedding venue That had no heat in the building.

 Boring....all of them.

That's what I saw too, and yes, you're right. They were both boring. 

[AngelaHunter]

Ugh. We had the rerun of the porky, no-ear fool who left his extremely mature 9 and 10-year olds in the car with the keys. He refused to take responsibility for the accident. JJ had to send the kids out so she could tell him just a what a fool he is. He seemed rather proud of the fact. Poor kids.

I'm sure Lydell didn't steal nothing. It's just coincidence that the very day he's at the apartment to visit his aunt or his cousin that the plaintiff's iPad goes missing. He changed phones. He don't have the same number. He didn't send the texts saying he'd pay for a new iPad - some imposter must have sent them. Just deny everything, you fool. So freaking lame. Plaintiff is a 22 year old college student who says "had came." I just had a hell of a day and I'm out.

Edited February 3, 2017 by AngelaHunter

[augmentedfourth]

Working backwards here, as I just finished watching both of today's NEW (and entertaining!) episodes.

 

The short case with the contractor and the bathroom was rather disappointing (though maybe a little interesting if the plaintiff was, in fact, trying to scam her insurance company). This was one of those instances where I swore I could smell the alcohol coming off the defendant contractor through my TV; the plaintiff suggested drugs, though, in the hallterview, and I could buy that, too.

 

Before that, we had the sad saga of Orlando and Montreil (sp?). Orlando at least seems to be making some effort to turn his life around after his incarceration. Montreil just seemed to be a little...off. Maybe due to the weed she allegedly had, maybe not. Either way, girl, we just watched a video with you shrieking and laughing like a maniac, so much that the 911 operator couldn't hear the person she was on the phone with, and then confronting the plaintiff with a string of words so foul, not one made it past the censors. If you're going to lie, maybe at least try to come up with something that's consistent with what we just saw with our own eyes? (Though her story wasn't even consistent with what she'd told the police, so I know I'm asking for too much.)

 

The defendant in the wedding case was a total Scammy McScammerson. It takes some chutzpah to start changing the contact information and proclaiming "under new management" on fliers for a venue you don't even own yet (and wound up never owning). I didn't even care about the boiler and the heat and whatnot. I would have given the plaintiffs the judgment based solely on the fact that Scammy McScammerson never owned the property in question.

 

And lastly (or firstly, rather, when I watched), the catfight/brawl/whatever, which was also on videotape. Gotta hand it to the defendant for being so brazenly unapologetic in the hallterview, smiling and saying "she got what she deserved". As soon as they cut to the defendant's witness (sister?), I just knew that whatever that woman was accused of doing that night, she did it. The look of attitude on her face confirmed it all.