This woman is infuriating. I understand it’s television but these are supposedly real cases. She doesn’t listen to people, doesn’t actually ever prove anything and doesn’t apply the law evenly. For example, there was one case where a girl allowed this guy to use her credit card to pay for car repairs because he was giving her rides to work and letting her live at his place. Somehow it turned out that he had to pay her back for that. Her reasoning was that they never agreed to a contract or agreement where she would help out with car repairs. Umm, excuse me? They also never agreed that he would pay back her credit card. I mean if this is what is really going on in courts, I never want to even deal with that bullshit.
If you can’t be entertained, what can you be? There is nothing inherently “correct” about a court/ legal system. If the trials were that pointless they would be bred out. Hopefully one day we’ll be so rich and advanced that we’ll have much les boring and far more entertaining court customs, maybe a trial of ordeals will come back en vogue.
Excuse me sir! Excuse me. Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
Here’s one of my favorites from these kind of shows…
(2.48 million views)
Trying to be serious here, but oh well.
Well look, I mean, yeah these are technically real cases, but these are exceptional circumstances. It’s not as if these people are just taking each other to court and happen to end up in a court with cameras. I mean, it’s actually a tv show. These people literally sign up for this. They make a conscious decision to go on the Judge Judy show, and be yelled at by Judge Judy. They are warned a thousand times that they will probably get screamed at, made to look foolish, etc. I’m not even positive they aren’t compensated in such a way that even the loser ends up walking away with something.
So it’s not like this is a textbook example of a normal small claims court. I mean if you want something serious to complain about, there’s plenty of stuff available in the actual, non-reality tv court system.
The producers of the show pay the settlements either way. They also hire extras to fill the court room. You can’t believe everything you see on TV.
These shows are more or less staged. They are legal arbitrations where the producers contact actual small claims filers to get them to appear on the show. The producers pay each party for appearing, and the producers pay the winning party for any ruling the arbitrator makes. The loser pays nothing, but still gets the appearance fee.
Yeah, as Jackson LaRose pointed out, it’s all staged crap anyway. Basically what happens is that each “contestant” basically gets $5000 (or whatever the limit for small claims is) for being on the show, and the settlements are paid out of that. So while it’s certainly spreading bad ideas of “justice”, it’s not an actual court.
Actually, if you think about it, this is some kind of weird private tort law setup. I have to imagine you’d see this in an an-cap society also. People, after all, are buying the product.
Ruminating on premises such as these reminds me of how poorly I can imagine a radically decentralized society.
Regardless of what you think about the production of those television shows, the concept is certainly a possible model of a private court system.
It is a combination of sport and law.
I know two people who made up a story and went as far as fabricating police reports to get on the show. They got a free trip to LA and some easy money. They are also total scumbags.
Was that the one involving cats and TV’s? That was a weird one, and seemed staged. Here is the ending for identification purposes.
HAHAHA thats them. I never actually saw the episode.
It’s pretty awesome. The plantiff claimed that the defendant killed her cat by smashing a TV on it.
Hey, question:
How would a libertarian respond to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=nzGOJJmrPNo
If the weight had not been on there, should plaintiff still have gotten her money? It’s disgusting, yet from a contract perspective…? Of course, we don’t know details that might be important… I’m sure she slipped up somewhere.
Public humiliation and identification would be enough.
You have to see this hilarious ending to the show. These people basically pretended to bring a real case, and got 1000 dollars. Plus they put on a pretty good show. Probably one of the most hilarious things I’ve seen on TV.
Four posts ago, bud.