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A woman sues her hairdresser after her hair began to fall out from a dye job, but the hairdresser says he warned the woman this would happen.
Sweetheart, the cat, has been hit by a car, passed from home to home, and fought over.
Two men go into business to make extra golf money, but their political beliefs get in the way.
A woman thought she was being rescued when her boyfriend moved her out of a housing project to live with him, but, within three months, she was accusing him of conspiring with a raccoon to kill her cat.
A hairstylist agreed to store a customer's hair extensions, but after two years with no contact, she deemed them unusable and threw them away.
A tenant is appalled at her landlord's accusation that she invited vermin with her mess.
A chiropractor asks a patient on several dinner dates and accuses her of stealing his manuscript.
A man borrows money from a woman to start a shipping business.
A convict cuts off his ankle monitor, leaves the house, and drunkenly loses the cell phone his sister bought for him.
An 11-year-old had to dig a grave for his beloved dog; his parents take to court the neighbor whose dog they say broke through the fence and attacked.
An unlicensed driver sideswipes a car; a woman says her ex took back the watch he gave her and butchered her car with a bad paint job.
A man inherited his late sister's rental property during the pandemic and decided to evict her tenant of eight years, which the tenant says was illegal under the eviction moratorium.
A popular salon owner posts a video showing what she calls the subpar standards of the building she is renting; the landlord calls that defamation -- but for that to work, the statements made must be false.
A film worker's late employer's wife lent him money to join a union and wants him to pay her back.
A man meets a reportedly homeless woman next to a garbage bin and brings her home to live in his one-bedroom apartment, but the living arrangement doesn't go well, so he sues her for emotional distress.
A young man borrows money from his stepfather to relocate his family to Los Angeles, and he's adamant that he shouldn't have to pay it back; a woman borrows money from a friend to bail her boyfriend out of jail.
A landlady inherits rental property from her husband, claims it had been mistreated, and evicts a nine-months-pregnant tenant.
homeowner, accused of showing up unmasked to a birthday party, says he did nothing wrong -- but his tenants say he put their immunocompromised guests in danger.
A man with two dogs rents a luxury penthouse on the Las Vegas strip, and the landlady sues for damages to the property.
A radio personality sues a dog groomer.
A man wants his money back after paying for his brother's dog's life-saving surgery; a woman sues a woodworker over a vanity.
A man is accused by his allegedly non-paying roommate of being one of the biggest drug dealers in the county.
A case between a landlord and tenant involves faulty wiring and an illegally held security deposit.
The blond wig a plaintiff ordered arrived brown, and the battle with the seller has been no fun at all.
A table flew out of a truck and wrecked a car with a baby in it, and the baby's mother wants reimbursement for car repairs; a daycare owner hired a volunteer driver and wasn't told about his multiple accidents.
An unlicensed driver who stopped in a lane of traffic to drop off her friend at home sues a guy for rear-ending her.
A mother and daughter say their horse was abused; the buyer is offended and backs out of the sale.
A used-car salesman purchases a deceased man's vehicle "as is"; he accuses the seller of violating the smog test laws, but that's not the reason he is suing; the judges try to decipher just what it is that he wants.
A recently incarcerated woman trades everything in her storage unit for a friend's car, then her ownership of the items is called into question.
An accidentally overpaid employee tries to explain why he doesn't owe his boss anything; a defendant who went out clubbing doesn't remember leaving a note confessing to hitting the plaintiff's car in a Tijuana liquor store.
Things weren't going well in a business partnership, so one partner lied to entice the other into a buyout; now the ousted partner feels cheated.
A construction worker offered to remodel his girlfriend's mother's bathroom for only the cost of materials; then, they say, they discovered that he was using their credit card for other jobs.
A man gave a business loan to his personal trainer, who resists paying him back and claims the man defamed him by telling a prospective client he's a con artist.
A man's mom paid for a lawyer to keep him out of jail, but the loan agreement she had him sign included a six-month celibacy clause; after a fight over banana pudding and being "evicted" from her house, he doesn't think he owes her the money anymore.
When a bee flies into a car, the unlicensed driver crashes into a parked truck.
A woman who moved to Denver for a new job and temporarily stayed with her cousin says the cousin's children stole her credit card and damaged her cell phone, and a mountain of clothes went missing.
A homeless married couple find a place with cheap rent, but when the city deems it uninhabitable, they are right back out on the street and want the landlord to pay for their relocation costs.
The buyer of a used car expects the seller to pay for any future repairs, even though the contract says "as is"; after several breakdowns, the seller has had enough.
A couple break up after one lends the other $5,000 to fix her roof.
A mother-of-seven blames her aunt for ruining her 15-year-old son's life by having him arrested for stealing her car.
A woman says the condo she purchased had undisclosed plumbing and grading problems, causing her garage to get flooded.
A cancer survivor was down on his luck during the pandemic and spending all of his money trying to keep his beloved pugs alive; his landlord/roommate comes after him for unpaid rent.
A young man owes his older sister for a car loan and doesn't seem to understand the concept of responsibility.
After being rear-ended on a freeway on-ramp, a woman put her car in "sport mode" and prepared to chase the other driver -- and is still gunning for them in court.
Masked thieves, a run-over foot, security cam tampering: accusations fly in a dispute over a storage property; video evidence shows that the situation got nasty.
A kitchen designer holds his client's drawers hostage so that she will help him hunt down payments he is owed by the previous homeowner.
A reportedly distracted driver rear-ends a couple at high speed; the car holds sentimental value to them, so they ask for more money than it's worth.
A fistfight broke out between a hairstylist and his subtenant, whose witness calls the hairstylist the most evil human being she's ever met.
A woman gives her wife an SUV as a wedding present, then the wife pawns the title for rent money, and now she's saddled with the debt.
A man owes his ex-dominatrix mother for bailing him out of jail.
A motorcycle mechanic guaranteed he could fix his client's bike before he found an exhaust valve that should have been adjusted 7,000 miles ago.
A woman describes a harrowing incident in which several intimidating dogs attached her chihuahua-mix on a walk; their owner says they were provoked,
A simple two-letter word causes a world of conflict between the buyer and the seller of a home: per the contract, the seller was to trim the branches touching the house or hanging over the roof - so he chose to do only one of those.
A young man buys a TV for a friend he'd known only a month; in return, the friend was supposed to help with some design work for a board game he's inventing, but that never happened.
A formerly homeless couple with five children say their landlady went above and beyond to get their rental assistance application approved; now she accuses them of causing massive flooding in her home.
A woman discovered rust on a used truck she bought "as-is"; the seller graciously offered to refund her money, but, he says, she refused the second installment, and therefore he doesn't owe her anything.
A stay-at-home mom agreed to babysit her friend's son, but not for free; she says he never paid her, but he says he did -- in beer and vape pods.
A landlady lets her tenant out of her lease because a reported stalker ex-boyfriend has a key to the place, but the tenant leaves behind rotting food and flies, and the landlady has to clean it up.
A deaf woman awakes in the middle of the night to police and firefighters breaking down her bedroom door; her landlord charges her for damages.
After a man started mining crypto currency in his rental unit, the power bill shot up hundreds of dollars, but he doesn't believe the increase was entirely his fault, so he tries to get some money back from his landlord.
A woman sues her former live-in boyfriend for her therapy bills; he countersues for storage fees on the items she left behind.
A mother cosigned her daughter and daughter's boyfriend's lease, then they broke up, and the boyfriend moved in another woman.
A woman's new puppy dies, and an at-home test says it was parvo; she contends that the seller hadn't vaccinated the litter, but she never saw a licensed veterinarian either.
A self-made businesswoman says she was helping a competitor by placing a large inventory order on her behalf, but the competitor accuses her of price-gouging and resists repaying her.
When neighbors complain about a luxury nail salon's overwhelming acetone fumes, the landlord tells the nail technician she has to do something about it.
A landlady lets scammers into her home without a lease or background check, then holds her property manager responsible for the unpaid rent; the property manager says she's still owed for all the work she did.
The purchaser of a used truck says he was told it was in excellent condition with no major repairs needed, but after the engine started knocking, he found a mechanic's invoice in the cab that said otherwise.
A food delivery driver whose father's karate instructor damaged her car can't work until her car is fixed, but she can't fix the car if she's not working, and dealing with insurance has been unproductive.
An ad for a used pool listed a lifetime warranty on the liner, but the buyers soon discovered that the warranty was not transferrable, and they accuse the seller of being deceptive.
A defendant says he was the frequent mediator in fights between his friend and his friend's mom, who, he says, forgave a car loan she had given him; she sues him for that loan and calls him a big liar.
While a cancer patient's home contractor was reportedly sick in bed with COVID-19, a rival contractor snapped a photo of him at a different job site.
A woman who experienced extensive hair loss blames her stylist, who says she warned her not to leave the weave in so long.
A tattoo artist's ex-girlfriend says he's coming after her for a loan repayment because he went through her phone and thinks cheated; Judge Michael imparts a serious warning to a nursing student not to ruin her future.
A nursery owner sues for the value of three queen palms, which were crushed by his neighbor's overhanging branch; the neighbor says the palms were neglected and worthless.
A landlord claims raucous parties caused extensive filth and fire damage to an apartment; the tenants deny having a party or a fire.
The litigants' chain of text messages show how a 10-year friendship fell apart over an unpaid loan.
A contractor disputes his clients' complaint that his finished product didn't match his sample; he's suing them for the cost of materials.
A woman says her friend is neglecting to pay back a loan and lying about it in court; he says he paid her back by driving her around town for a year.
A hit-and-run survivor got his car back from the body shop then discovered his air conditioning was malfunctioning; the shop owners say they do body work, not AC repair.
In preparation for her birthday cruise, a woman has her eyebrows microshaded then complains that they are uneven and cracking.
A woman lends her new boyfriend $600 for marijuana, and he never pays her back; she wants an additional fee for the inconvenience.
A woman says she paid her hairstylist for diamond dreadlock extensions, but they came out square; the stylist offers to redo the do, for an extra fee, but the plaintiff wants her money back.
A man laments that his father would rather spend time with his emotional support snakes than his own grandchildren.
A woman rushes her cousin's asthmatic child to the hospital, believing that insurance will cover the bill; six years later, a collections agency takes her to court, and she sues her cousin for reimbursement.
A man's car was drivable after a rear-ending but remained in the shop for 47 days while the insurance company claim dragged on; he wants the other driver to reimburse him for his rental car expenses.
A woman who took her disabled sister for a haircut says the stylist got angry and aggressive with the clippers, causing red welts on her neck.
Insurance covers the damage a man's fraternity brother caused to his truck, but he still wants the former friend to pay him, as a penalty; the defendant says he tried to make it right.
An insurance provider determined that liability for a crash was 50/50, but each driver says the other is entirely to blame.
To avoid a painful eviction process, a landlord pays his tenant to vacate early but changes his mind about the deal after finding broken eggs behind the TV.
Ex-boyfriends who still live together try to describe their complicated relationship history, including a series of domestic abuse charges pressed and then dropped.
A baby gets burned by apple pie, and the two women who are supposed to be watching him launch into a fistfight; one sues the other for damage to her breast implant.
On the day his mother dies, a ballet dancer agrees to help his piano teacher buy a watch online and expects to be reimbursed; the piano teacher thinks "stay out of my life" means "the loan is forgiven."
A blind man lent his girlfriend money for a horse, then she went sky diving with another man; he forgave the loan, but has changed his mind.
Former business partners fight over a co-owned trailer.
A woman hires a contractor to glam up her van with a custom interior, then gets impatient and pulls the plug.
A man who says he was tricked into a fake relationship by a woman who wanted childcare help while her husband was in jail wants her to return a truck he bought and put it in her name.
A woman running for HOA president went on the news and promised to hold residents accountable for massive amounts of unpaid water bills; she then faced backlash from residents.
German shepherds are accused of jumping a fence and decimating a neighbor's flock of sheep; the dogs' owner says a black bear has been sighted in the area.
A single father wants the defendant, to whom he may have been engaged in the past, to repay a loan; he is accused of sending harassing text messages.
Two vehicles collide, and since the defendant has no insurance, the plaintiff comes after him for repair costs -- but her boyfriend's tactics offend him.
An unwed couple used the man's credit and VA loan to buy a home, but now that they have broken up, the woman wants to be repaid for the furniture that was in the home when they bought it.
A saxophonist paid a videographer to document the biggest gig of his life, but says the videographer didn't deliver and blames him for losing out on future gigs.
A man buys a dirt bike for his nephew with the expectation of being paid back, but when the nephew is stabbed and shot, the payments reportedly cease.
A church play director pays her stage manager only half his wages, saying he showed up but didn't work, and she was too busy to fire him.
A man made a deposit to the private seller of a luxury sports car, but never paid the remaining balance, so she spent his money and sold the car to someone else; he sues for his deposit back.
A church treasurer admits she moved $30,000 of the church's money into her personal account.
A landlady wanted her tenant out after he caused a 40-gallon flood by falling asleep while filling a fish tank; video evidence may show her secretly planting a pre-dated 30-day notice in his room.
When a bereaved family friend falls behind on their debt, a funeral director takes to Facebook to express frustration.
A landlord allows his cats to urinate all over an allergic tenant's possessions, so the tenant withholds rent.
A woman resists repaying her aunt for a loan, saying she previously forgave her aunt's debt of the same amount; the aunt calls her a pathological liar.
A landlady lets her brand-new tenant out of the lease after surgery complications prevent her from moving in, but doesn't return the deposit and calls the police.
A client says he sent a repairman a check, but the repairman says he never received it; a man falls on hard times, stops repaying his cousin for a loan, and doesn't reply to her text messages.
A homeowner says her interior designer didn't provide receipts for décor purchased on her dime; the designer says she was so micromanaged that she had to cancel the job two weeks in.
A landlady evicts a single mother from a room that is not up to code and has, the mother says, termite droppings raining down on her child's bed.
Both litigants in a car sale dispute offer to take lie detector tests to determine who is scamming whom.
A man's barn collapses, and he accuses the elderly couple who sold it to him of being deceptive about insurance coverage; they say that it was his responsibility to get homeowner's insurance.
A handyman says he quit a landscaping and repair job because the homeowner was harassing him all day; the homeowner loved his low price, but says his work was shoddy.
A clothing designer hired a carpenter to build laundry cabinets but didn't hear from him for months; the carpenter says the designer never reached out -- then admits to blocking his number.
Something overwhelming assaulted a landlord's nostrils when he entered his tenant's unit.
A two-week flooring job wasn't complete five months later, and the handyman who dropped the ball is full of excuses, while the homeowner had to rip it all up and start over.
Bullet holes in the windows, holes punched in the doors, holes dug in the yard by an unauthorized dog -- ex-tenants have explanations for all of them, but the landlord is hoping he can find a hole in their defense.
Pigs' owner needed a shed to keep them warm and safe, but the builder left gaps and protruding nails; he defends his work, saying the budget was too cheap.
A lumber truck driver denies going straight in a left-turn lane, but the person he hit says otherwise.
A homeowner says she was under the gun to bring her dead lawn up to code.
The purchaser of a utility van accuses the sellers of tampering with the odometer, costing him thousands of dollars to remedy; the accused say they never sold him any vehicle and suspect he is committing fraud.
An unemployed man's ex-girlfriend kept a detailed list of every expense she covered; he resents the petty charges, but he signed a promissory note to repay her.
A woman says her roommate moved her property to the porch, where it was damaged by rain; she is accused of starting a fire and refusing to move said property so the residence could be cleaned.
A man rented his car to a customer, who damaged it to the tune of $6,000 and thinks insurance should have paid for all the repairs.
A woman refuses to repay her mother for bailing her out of jail, saying it was a tactic to get custody of her children.
