Hot Bench

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  • :
  • : 1972
  • : 3
  • Syndication
  • 14
  • Crime Reality Talk show

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8x1
Take a Dance on Me
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COVID cancels a quinceañera, and a "non-refundable" vendor deposit hangs in the balance.
8x2
Bail Me Out
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A disabled veteran bails a woman's reputedly abusive boyfriend out of jail -- and the boyfriend wants an apology.
8x3
Ex Ed
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A woman went on a first date, and the guy moved into her house; she tries to get back her money for the car she bought for him.
8x4
'Til Death Do Us Part
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A divorced couple's tax-filing dispute.
8x5
Hell's Kitchen
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A realtor and a contractor strike a deal on a remodeling job; a "friends discount" causes the friendship to fall apart.
8x6
Poultry in Motion (Part 1)
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A grieving family seeks retribution after their neighbor clubs their dog to death.
8x7
Poultry in Motion (Part 2)
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Hospitalized by vicious bees, his dog beaten to death with an ax handle, the plaintiff needs more than a perfunctory apology letter from his neighbor.
8x8
Charge It to the Game
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A landlady wants her rowdy cruise-line bartender ex-friend to pay the $5,000 he owes her in rent.
8x9
OK, Beamer
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A woman says the used BMW she purchased is a "lemon."
8x10
Trucker's Blues
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Veteran big-rig drivers duel it out in the courtroom over the fairness of wages.
8x11
Bond Ambition
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When a financial adviser with a drug problem is incarcerated for stealing a trailer, her estranged sister bails her out and puts a roof over her head; she repays her by walking out and leaving her 8-year-old son unattended.
8x12
Flipping Car Accident; Sublet Mess
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A delivery driver decides to knock back a few beers before his morning shift; a pot-smoking landlord charges his pot-smoking tenant with getting the smell out of his carpet.
8x13
Promise Me Not
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A man owes his mother's best friend $2,000 for a loan to keep his truck -- and his only defense is arguing semantics with Judge DiMango.
8x14
Money for Nothing
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When an elderly couple sue their daughter's boyfriend over a missing rent check, someone does not tell the truth in court.
8x15
Pretended Warranty
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A man drives his truck for three years without the warranty protection he bought; he wants his auto broker to pay up.
8x16
The Car-Nash-Ians
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A woman buys faulty parts online and sues her mechanic when her car starts making nasty noises.
8x17
Rent-Up Anger
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Falling stucco mangles a tenant's hand, causing him to lose work and fall behind on rent; in an effort to "punish" him, the landlord brings accusations of property damage.
8x18
Con Keys-to-Door
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A compassionate veteran takes in his homeless best friend, who breaks his ribs, damages his property and throws away the dentures he bought him.
8x19
Mismanaged Money
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A family man seeks justice after being evicted on Christmas Eve.
8x20
In-security Deposit
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A family fighting for their security deposit must prove that they left only normal wear and tear.
8x21
Tow Yard Nightmare
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Upon her release from the hospital, a hit-and-run survivor goes straight to the tow yard and says some things are missing from her smashed SUV: she wants the owner to pay for her stolen diamonds and designer bags.
8x22
Leaky Blinders
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A rancid, leaking hole in the ceiling brings a musician to the end of his rope, but something stinks about his story, and Judge Corriero can smell it from a mile away.
8x23
Not Fit for Humans
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A man sues his property manager for inhospitable living conditions but she says he did nothing to follow up.
8x24
Once Upon a Dime in Hollywood
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A movie producer has investors breathing down his neck for millions of dollars.
8x25
Who Beat the Light?; Put It on My Tab
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Two motorists dispute what color the light was, and who was at fault; two businessmen decide to share a credit card for advertising expenses.
8x26
Pay for the Caf´é
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A small-business owner tries to blame his broken dreams on his landlords, but the lease states that they are not responsible for things falling apart.
8x27
A Couch and a Loan
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Judge Corriero questions the intentions of a plaintiff who brought a woman in off the street and bought her a car.
8x28
Salvaged Car Love; Flake Tahoe
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A Camry with faulty steering careens into a Jaguar parked on the street; a man buys a truck from his tattoo artist.
8x29
Risk Jockey
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A man sues the disk jockey he hired for his wedding anniversary party.
8x30
Everything but the Kitchen Sink
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A landlord's tenant moves out and takes the air conditioner with him.
8x31
Hit-and-Run Fallout
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A 20-year-old driver slams into a car driven by a mother and her three children.
8x32
Rid Me of My Roommate Part 1
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A woman listed a room for rent in her apartment, and says a man showed up with a towel, ready to take a shower.
8x33
Rid Me of My Roommate Part 2
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A woman says a blackmailer squatted in her apartment for 10 months.
8x34
Family Friend or Foe
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When a young woman's tenancy with a family friend devolves into her reportedly wielding a screwdriver against him, her own grandmother is a witness against her.
8x35
At Least Pay Off the Lease!
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A life coach and her roommate are so incompatible that they can only communicate through email; at first, she tried to help him through a rough patch, but now she has to sue for his half of the rent.
8x36
Motorbike and Sons
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An unlicensed child crashes his stepfather's motorbike.
8x37
Unauthorized Party
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A teenage Vrbo renter and his friends left bullet holes in the floor and scared the neighbors so badly that they moved away; the owners hired a PI to track the kid down; now they hope the judges will hold him accountable for destroying their home.
8x38
COVID-iot Relief
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A young woman files a restraining order against her boyfriend, then comes after him for his portion of the rent.
8x39
Put Out to Pasture
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A grown man throws a fit when the judges tell him he can't lease someone else's land to a cattle rancher.
8x40
Pro-ducers & Cons
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A security guard dreams of achieving B-list stardom; his idol, actor Richard Baker, presents an opportunity to invest in his next movie.
8x41
The Barter They Fall
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To adjudicate a carpenter's and a welder's barter dispute, the judges must determine the relative worth of carport frames and hydraulic bins.
8x42
Student Drive-Her
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A driving instructor's employer fails to protect her from the sexual harassment of being propositioned by a 19-year-old student.
8x43
Brother Brawl
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After a drunken man shakes his brother awake and breaks his nose, he tells the judges "I'm sorry" and "my brother got what he deserved" in the same breath.
8x44
The Harder the Fall (Out)
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Amid a turbulent child-custody battle, a man sues his ex-girlfriend over a measly broken window, but they've had so many similar altercations that neither can remember the details of the incident.
8x45
Designated Dog Zone Attack
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C.J., a pit bull, is too much dog for a 10-year-old to walk, and ends up attacking little Alan, a corgi/boxer mix, whose owner wants to recover money for medical bills.
8x46
Roaches, Mice & Mites, Oh My!
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A single mother of three tries to recover her security deposit, saying her son contracted mites from a dead bird.
8x47
Bad Car-ma Wash
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A man says a young woman rear-ended him in an automated car wash; she and her mom come armed to the teeth with video evidence and sound logic.
8x48
Dog Gone
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A fence-jumping pit bull roams the neighborhood; a man walking his puppy had no idea what tragedy lurked around the corner.
8x49
I Plant With You!
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The woman upstairs is too loud, while the woman downstairs keeps unsightly, dead plants; they have asked the police, the HOA, and now "Hot Bench," to get to the root of their problems.
8x50
What Goes Impound
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A woman says her granddaughter's mother borrowed her credit card and went on a spending spree; the "man" at the center of the dispute isn't even in the courtroom.
8x51
A Sinking Ship; Infinity and Beyond
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A plumber is hired to replace five toilets on a yacht, but nearly sinks it in the process; godsisters feud over an unpaid car loan.
8x52
Unbrotherly Loan Love
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A man who helped his brother out of a serious bind now wants his money back: a crash course in statute of limitations.
8x53
Bumper Cars
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An uninsured, unlicensed motorist gets angry after he rear-ends an Uber driver.
8x54
A Wrinkle in Time; Deposit Due Deposit Don't
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A couple is sued over a time share; a renter wants punitive damages from his landlord for withholding part of his security deposit.
8x55
A-Salty Sister
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An alcohol-fueled brawl between grandmothers, nieces, sisters and aunts.
8x56
The Lash Hurrah
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An eyebrow and lash technician says she was overworked by a salon owner who doesn't believe she deserves compensation.
8x57
Un-Rest Room; Nine Dogs, a Baby and a Boyfriend
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An unlicensed contractor defends his work, which he says he wasn't allowed to finish; 11 people live in a house, but only three of them are on the lease.
8x58
Roommate Rivals
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A man who says he wanted to "help out" his cousin appears bent on incriminating him.
8x59
Textual Her-assment
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A married couple fight with their landlady over the return of their security deposit and who is at fault for the dead lawn.
8x60
Too Little Space for Two
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When a single mother rents a room from a stranger, the living arrangement devolves into a back-and-forth of child abuse accusations; she seeks compensation for her Thanksgiving Day eviction.
8x61
Eyes on the Road
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8x62
Friendship or Deception?
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8x63
I'm a Mechanic, Not a Magician
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8x64
Hope Floats Not My Boat
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8x65
A Little Give and Take
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8x66
Cousins to Watch Over Me; The Car's Not Fixed Yet
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8x67
Stimulus Response
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8x68
Lease Breakers
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8x69
Shoe Me the Money
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8x70
Leave Me A-Loan; No Trucking Around
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8x71
Check Yourself
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An auto broker lies to his customer and in court papers.
8x72
Winter Break From Hell
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After subleasing his place for 30 days, a mechanical engineering student in the U.S. on visa comes home to a trashed apartment full of weed and hypodermic needles.
8x73
Custom Extensions Cost
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A salon stylist says she wanted to brighten her client's day after hearing her life story, but when the young woman ghosted her, she was left with 30 inches of dyed human hair and no head on which to put it.
8x74
Renter's Remorse; Lien on Me
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An out-of-work dog trainer is evicted during the pandemic after failing to pay her rent; a man says he bought a car from a strapped-for-cash seller, but with $6,000 still left to pay off, the car was repossessed.
8x75
Peanut Butter & Melee Sandwich
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The plaintiff's late mother's beloved dog, Peanut, is attacked by an emotional-support Rottweiler mix at a dog park.
8x76
House-tility
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A couple who moved from a homeless shelter into an apartment say the neighbors conspire to get them evicted and the landlord accuses them of vandalism and keeping a feral cat against the terms of the lease.
8x77
The Roof Is on the Cruze
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A huge hunk of wind-damaged roof lands on a tenant's car after the landlord ignores her requests to get the roof fixed.
8x78
New Roommate Nightmare
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Two young women with extreme anxiety lived together for three months, and recounting it all brings a deluge of tears.
8x79
It All Rent to Pot; Shaw Redemption
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A man says his roommate foiled his plan to take advantage of government rental assistance by using her savings to pay off their debt; a man leaving a party engaged his car's hydraulic suspension and ran into a parked luxury vehicle.
8x80
Drama Queens
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One drag queen buys hearing aids for another queen, but he feels she violated his privacy when she took pictures of his date calendar.
8x81
All-A-Loan; Bumper to Bumper
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A woman lends her husband's friend $2,400 in a casino parking lot; a man backs out of a parking space, colliding with a car coming up behind him.
8x82
Party Girls
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A grocery store employee decides to give all of her and her roommate's rent money to her boyfriend.
8x83
Community Car
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Discovering that a car comes with $700 worth of parking tickets, the buyer sends disparaging remarks about the seller's body.
8x84
Bathroom Blow-up
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A homeowner is adamant that his remodeling job was going over budget, even though it evidently wasn't.
8x85
Valued Garage
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A landlord rents both a garage and the space in front of it; a plumber who stores his tools in the garage says his access was blocked, so he withheld rent.
8x86
Too Short
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8x87
Dog Sitting Disaster
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8x88
Overpower of Attorney
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8x89
Rear Ending
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8x90
Escrow I Scream!
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8x91
Dogs Will Be Dogs!
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A pit bull attacks a border-collie mix.
8x92
Purple of Confusion
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A girlfriend, some cats and a bunch of international musicians were not on a tenant's lease; he says the place was uninhabitable.
8x93
Clean Up Your Lawn Act
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A landscaper is hired to rip out a lawn and put in drought-resistant plants, but she and her client make one prickly pair.
8x94
Rental Damage Debacle
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A Utah woman says she's never encountered such horrible people in her 20 years of being a landlady; the tenants say the home was falling apart before they moved in.
8x95
CARate Shop
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A man has been waiting two years for his truck to be painted.
8x96
Wrestle-Name-ia
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Parties fight over the trademarked name of a wrestling promotion
8x97
Where's My Tiny House?
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A man's dream to build a tiny house in Arizona is squashed by bureaucracy
8x98
Oh Plummer! My Plumber
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A dog breeder says her plumber overcharged her; the plumber says the woman is confused
8x99
T-Bone Ache
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A woman says a reckless driver hit her car as she was backing up out of an alleyway
8x100
Tangled Title
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A mother of three buys a used car only to have it repossessed due to a secret outstanding loan
8x101
Juggling Apartments
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A landlord and his realtor try to get their story straight over a rent reduction they offered their tenant.
8x102
Stench in the Clowns
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A struggling teacher tries to recover his security deposit from a persnickety landlord.
8x103
Accidental Rental
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A mysterious hunk of metal on the highway causes damage to a man's car.
8x104
Strumming My Pain
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A man sues the person who sold him a vintage Gibson guitar.
8x105
CON-struction Man
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A homeowner says he paid a contractor $5,000 to build a studio apartment; he alleges that all he ever got was a rough sketch and no actual labor.
8x106
Mechanic Mishap
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A man accuses his mechanic of getting his truck impounded; the mechanic says he's never saw the truck in his life.
8x107
Loaning My Heart
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A young woman who loaned money from her college savings to a man she met online says she never got paid back.
8x108
Eyes Wide Shut
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A young man is thankful to be alive after a high speed car wreck; the other motorist admits to falling asleep behind the wheel.
8x109
Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me
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A landlord and tenant argue over damages from a water leak.
8x110
Took the Money and Ran
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An on-again, off-again couple argue over a car loan.
8x111
Topsy Turvey
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The plaintiff's truck goes up on a lift for repairs and comes crashing down, needing more repairs.
8x112
Rent-Up Anger
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A landlord hears a rumor that his tenant wasn't laid off -- she quit her job to go on vacation in Arizona.
8x113
Drowning in Debt
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The judges try to pinpoint what went wrong between a woman and the contractor she hired to restore her pool.
8x114
U Can't Clutch This
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A man hires three mechanics to work on his truck, then a wheel falls off while he is driving.
8x115
The Paper Caper
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A customer offers to file court papers for a post-office worker, but he gets impatient and walks out on the deal.
8x116
God Bite
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Two dogs scrap through a fence, but no one is around to see it, so the matter of who should pay the veterinary bills is on the fence.
8x117
Hit & Run & Hide
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A woman says a driver fled the scene after sideswiping her car, but some elusive drag racers get blamed.
8x118
Get Out
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A man sues his roommate for what he calls wild, unacceptable behavior, including sanding the floors at 2:00 in the morning.
8x119
Un-Ensured; Wreck and Robbers
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Brothers sue over a rear-end collision; moments after he totaled his car, a young man and his pregnant girlfriend are robbed.
8x120
One Promise Two Late
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A man's friend guarantees him a return on his real estate investment, but when the foundation's asset manager dies, so apparently does that guarantee.
8x121
Taking a Heavy Toll
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A woman says her ex-boyfriend racked up thousands of dollars' worth of toll tickets with her car; he contends it's her duty to pay them.
8x122
Loaned the Wrong Friend; You're on Thin Ice!
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A man borrows money from his employer for a medical procedure; a woman sues an appliance repair company.
8x123
Ticket, Ticket... Boom!
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A woman is sued for not repaying money she borrowed to purchase tickets to a wrestling event.
8x124
Writings on the Shower Wall
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A contractor is sued for allegedly not finishing a job.
8x125
Tenant Mess
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A landlord sues her family friend for broken furniture and mold under the sink; the tenant says she never got an itemized damage list.
8x126
Faux Paw
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An out-of-work EMT admits she lied about her spleen exploding after falling behind on payments for her French bulldog puppy.
8x127
No Room, No More; Down Payment Downer
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A social media influencer says scammers posted a false ad to rent out her room, but she resists giving back a prospective tenant's money; a woman's ex-boyfriend kept some of her insurance settlement, saying he lent her money for a car's down payment.
8x128
Pain in My Grass
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When a California lawn turns brown, a landscaper finds himself defending his sprinkler installation and blaming the homeowner.
8x129
Shun-in-Law
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A woman wants the homeless father of her grandchild to repay her for an apartment deposit
8x130
Race Boat Rip Off?
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A recreational boat racer says his engine builder placed the wrong gears in his boat.
8x131
The Dogfather
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A pit bull's bite ends a woman's dreams of joining the police academy.
8x132
Keeper of the Property
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A late man's girlfriend accuses his daughter of stealing all of his possessions, including the bed, the TV, oil paintings, and a signed letter from Teddy Roosevelt.
8x133
Ghosted Writer
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A Black writer is hired to pen a white woman's memoir, but after the writer accuses her of racism, compensation ceases and she moves away, leaving the writer in misery.
8x134
All That Glitters
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A woman is led to believe that a $17 chain is made of real gold, and she buys it from her 13-year-old grandnephew for $200.
8x135
Between Rock and a Hard Place
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When accusations of making racist remarks get a man fired from his job, his son feels obligated to quit too.
8x136
Momma Drama
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A 25-year-old sues her mother for the return of a drill and a pillow -- but troubled tears from all parties suggest a deeper frustration in the relationship.
8x137
Dash Delivery Dog Attack
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A guard dog lunges out and bites a dog food delivery driver.
8x138
Retaining Balance
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The plaintiff has no reason to believe that her grandson's father, who has been charged with three counts of battery against women, would pay her back for attorney fees.
8x139
Motel ... Gunning for Eviction!
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A man checks into a family-run motel, trouble arises, and the owner and her mother want him out of there in a hurry; he says he was wrongfully evicted.
8x140
Room Renting & Friends Venting
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A man opened his home to a struggling divorcée but says her barbecuing boyfriend damaged the side of his house and her increasingly present kids cramped his lifestyle; he wanted her out fast but sues because she didn't give 30 days' notice.
8x141
Nothing But the Tooth
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A young man is sued for dental bills after punching an alleged bully in the mouth.
8x142
A Ring of Truth
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After a failed relationship, a man's former fiancée returns the ring; now he claims she switched it out with a cheap knockoff.
8x143
Exes Baggage
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Julie is suing Susan for slander.
8x144
No Good Breed Goes Unpunished
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A man sues the woman who sold him his dachshund puppy, claiming it has a genetic overbite.
8x145
Watering the Bill; Drugs, Bed Bugs, & Covid
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A landlord notices his water bill is exceedingly high and asks his young tenants for help finding the leak; a landlord wants his tenants out after the results of an at-home test for methamphetamine contamination.
8x146
Smokey and Mirrors
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Oliver, the terrier, suffers a broken rib and must undergo hip replacement surgery and physical therapy after being attacked by a neighbor's pit bull.
8x147
Bad Business at the Baddie Chateau
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A hairstylist feels betrayed by her business partner, who filed to have her name removed from their license.
8x148
What to Do When Rent Is Due
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8x149
Little Black Corvette; Bumper Thumper
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Dead Man's Dwelling
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Boozing and Cruising; Sod Be Gone
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Truck in the Middle
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No Good Deed
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Phoning It In
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A Smogless Condition
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