[Judge Judy] You met the defendant online?
- Uh yes. - And a week later,
- you moved into her room? - Yes.
What were you doing when you met her?
I wasn't working at the time, but I'm just kind of figuring out my life.
You better start figuring it out, sir.
She terminated her relationship with you, I understand why.
[announcer]This is Judy Justice.
[theme music playing]
[announcer] Jeramy Brumley is suing his former girlfriend,
Cheyanne Madewell, for a bed and his belongings.
[Kevin] Court come to order.
Have a seat, everyone.
Hello, Judge.
Case number 1120, Brumley versus Madewell.
- Thank you. - [Kevin] Yes.
[Judge Judy] Mr. Brumley, how old are you?
I'm 32 years old.
How do you support yourself?
I was unemployment recently
and I'm working for a contractor at the moment.
[Judge Judy] Unemployment recently from when to when?
[Jeramy] For the last year and a half.
I don't have the date, Your Honor, exactly.
When did your unemployment end?
[Jeramy] It just recently ended.
[Judge Judy] What state do you live in?
Oregon.
So party's over, back to work.
So for a year and a half, you collected unemployment.
How much did you receive every week?
- Around...no, it's like... - Don't think I would know...I know...
- ...exactly what they put in my bank. - ...718 or like 720 a month
- ...or a week. - [Judge Judy] $720 a week?
Not counting the whole extra, 700 because with the COVID,
they added an extra 300 to your weekly claim.
I've made $458 a week
until the extra 300 was going on.
So during that whole time, it wasn't the whole 700, it was 458.
And during COVID, they added the extra $300 with the COVID kicker.
- [Judge Judy] Now, you are 32 years old. - [Jeramy] Yes.
So prior to collecting unemployment, what kind of work did you do?
- I worked for a contractor. I replaced... - [Judge Judy] Doing what?
...water meters for the city
and uh water box contracts in Bend as well.
Now, what were you doing
when you met the defendant online?
[Jeramy] I wasn't working at the time.
[Judge Judy] So you were collecting unemployment?
Yes.
[Judge Judy] Who were you living with?
I was living with my grandma and kind of some friends at the time.
'Cause I dealt with a breakup so I was kind of a few different spots.
And you met the defendant online in what month?
That would have been end of February, beginning of March.
- [Judge Judy] Of 2020? - [Jeramy] This year.
- [Judge Judy] 2021? - [Jeramy] Yes.
And the defendant was living in her grandmother's house, in a room?
- Yes. - [Judge Judy] In what month
did you move in with her in her room, in her grandmother's house?
Beginning of April--or end of March, beginning of April.
We got together in March 23rd in relationship-wise.
I was trying to figure out if she...
[Judge Judy] And a week later, you moved into her room?
- No, not a week later. - [Judge Judy] Two weeks later?
- It was a couple of weeks. - [Judge Judy] Three weeks later?
Three weeks to a month. Yes.
- [Judge Judy] Three weeks later? - [Jeramy] Yes.
[Judge Judy] And you stayed there until when?
[Jeramy] I didn't technically stay there.
I would give her rides to work and I'd come stay sometimes
in the beginning, and then I'd leave.
And then after a little bit, she needed a ride to work constantly
and so then I'd be like, "Okay. I'll give you a ride to work."
And then she offered for me to stay there with her, and...
[Judge Judy] What month did she offer to let you come and stay there with her?
- April. Uh... - [Judge Judy] April?
Yeah. That'd be like April 1st. We'll say.
That's--yeah, sorry.
April.
So in April, you came and stayed with her full-time and like...
- No. It was never full-time, Your Honor. - [Judge Judy] Okay.
[Jeramy] On the weekend, she'd visit her family.
On weekdays, I'd give her rides some and,
and in the beginning, I wouldn't even stay there.
[Judge Judy] No, no. I'm talking about when you started to stay there.
You started to stay there long enough, sir,
so that you got disgusted with the bed
because that's what's most of your lawsuit is about.
You say you bought a new bed for her grandma's room,
and when she terminated the relationship,
you want her to pay for half the bed.
So you don't need a new bed unless you're sleeping there.
So let's be real.
- That's what's the lawsuit's about. - Lawsuit's about a bed, yes.
- [Judge Judy] A bed? - For the most part, the bed, my clothing,
- and my belonging, yes. - Well, you--just a second,
your belongings, according to you, were never there.
According to you, you didn't stay there.
You just drove her to work and sometimes you stayed over
- and sometimes you didn't. - Your Honor, sorry.
[Judge Judy] So, put on a whole new thinking cap.
- Okay. - [Judge Judy] In what month
did you move in there
enough so that you wanted to change the bed?
Well, it was kind of her thing, too.
Like, I don't know exactly in April, and we wanted to get a bed.
And it was just mutual, like we wanted to get a bed, we're together.
We were trying to, like, move forward.
And I have that stated here that, like...
[Judge Judy] I don't care what you have stated anywhere.
I'm gonna make this suggestion to you, sir.
[Jeramy] Yes.
She terminated her relationship with you.
I haven't even let her open her mouth yet, I understand why.
So my advice to you is in case you move in with somebody
and you don't like the bed again, get twin beds
so that you can take one with you.
Because you can't cut this bed in half, and she's not paying you for half of it.
[Jeramy] Excuse me, Your Honor.
She said that she would pay me on here, and that she would do that.
She's like, "You buy the bed and I will pay you in part for that, too."
And I have that right here.
I'd love to see it.
Oh.
- [Jeramy] And if I may, Your Honor... - Shh. No, you may not.
"Such a blessing.
Just tell me when you need money.
We're a team." That's not a contract.
[Jeramy] Well, it says right here.
You--you're getting it with the Amazon card,
and she's having me buy up a bed.
[Judge Judy] No. She said, yeah, you give--
I'll give you money back or you just tell me
when you need money, baby. We're a team.
That's not a contract.
[Jeramy] Yeah, after the situation, it does...
That's not a contract.
[Jeramy] Okay. I understand that with the bed.
[Judge Judy] Okay. It's not a contract.
Contract requires specific terms.
If you buy the bed, I will reimburse you for half the bed.
Not, "Yeah, I'll give you money back
or you just tell me when you need money, baby, and we're a team."
That's not a contract.
- Okay. - [Judge Judy] Okay. So, get twin beds.
Now, the next thing comes with a question,
when did you move out?
[Jeramy] Uh I moved out June 3rd, I believe--or no.
It was before that.
She told me on June 3rd that she was breaking up with me and that--or no.
She was taking care of her grandma and moving states away to deal with that.
And I was like okay with that, which is totally fine.
I don't know what's going on.
She was been cold turkey for a little bit, like, I don't know what's going on.
She's been super quiet and so I just didn't understand.
And then this happens, I take it as it is.
I'm not, you know, a heartless person at all.
- Don't get me wrong. - [Judge Judy] Just a second.
You moved in there according to you
sometime about the second week in April, part-time.
And then you moved in more full-time.
But you left on June 3rd,
so you were there for the month of May, right?
Actually, we'll say uh at the end of May,
because June was when she wrote me and said this stuff, so I didn't...
- [Judge Judy] Just a second. - ...even move over there then.
[Judge Judy] So tell me when you were there?
[Jeramy] I'd be there during the week
sometimes with her, when I...
[Judge Judy] And where--where were you living
- the time that you weren't living with... - I was at my grandmother's.
Is that where you get mail?
[Jeramy] I have a PO Box.
Grandma gets tired of getting my mail, so...
[Judge Judy] How long have you been staying at your grandmother's
since this last breakup that you had before her?
It's kind of off and on, but I'm just kind of figuring out my life, Your Honor.
I stayed with my grandma a little bit.
You did say you were 32.
[Jeramy] I'm 32, Your Honor.
Well, you're a third done, and that's if you're lucky.
You'd better start figuring it out, sir.
I'm not sure exactly what I had,
but I have a bag of my clothes out on the street.
Just a second. Can I see that photograph?
- I actually have that, too, ma'am. - [Judge Judy] Jus-- up!
- Just, just... - Sorry.
[narrator] And later today...
But you've signed it, sir.
- But I read it earlier and earlier... - [Judge Judy] Oh.
...is not what you-- what you're saying that's on there.
- Would you show it to him again? - [Khiry] All you're saying is that
- I'm suing him for--just the video. - Quiet!
- Oh, go ahead. - [Judge Judy] Quiet!
Go ahead. Okay.
Don't sound foolish.
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[narrator] Jeramy Brumley claims his former girlfriend, Cheyanne Madewell,
owes for a bed and his belongings.
You better start figuring.
Excuse me, Your Honor?
I said you're 32.
That means you're a third done, if you're lucky.
'Cause not all of us get so lucky to live to be 96.
So 96, so I'm saying to you, you better start figuring.
Because the last third isn't as good as the first two-thirds.
Trust me on that.
- [Jeramy] Your Honor. - [Judge Judy] Mr. Brumley?
- Can I... - [Judge Judy] Mr. Brumley?
- Yes? - Get yourself real will you please, sir?
You don't get the bed.
You live there on and off with your grandmother
with whom you don't pay any rent.
You live there, you didn't pay any rent or expenses.
You live part-time, you lived half-time, you live out of your van,
you live out of your car, you couch-hop with your friends.
Okay.
Now, I want you to tell me what item specifically
you allege that she disposed of that were yours
in this place that you really don't live in all the time
'cause you're mostly with your grandmother.
So tell me what specific items,
and I'll see receipts for them.
The best that I could do for receipts was to be able to go to Amazon--
or Google and look for different items for each item that I had inside her house.
First try telling me. I don't care what you take pictures of.
[Jeramy] I got PlayStation games. I have my...
[Judge Judy] Just a second. Just--hey.
[Jeramy] Yeah?
[Judge Judy] You had a PlayStation there that you brought to her house?
[Jeramy] Yeah, and then she changed my network password to her name
for no reason, 'cause she's controlling.
[Judge Judy] Where did you get the PlayStation and when?
[Jeramy] I bought it offline.
Out of the marketplace.
It probably have been uh a year or so before we got together,
so I've had it for at least a year.
- And how much did you pay for it? - [Jeramy] I paid 250...
- Offline. - Two hundred and fifty bucks.
[Judge Judy] What did you do with his PlayStation?
I have the evidence right here, Your Honor.
I messaged him when I was moving out of my grandmother's house.
Um he was taking eight showers a day.
- He was staying home... - [Judge Judy] I-- just listen to me.
I'm not giving you...
[Cheyanne] Oh, I have the PlayStation still...
- I don't... - [Cheyanne] ...to this day.
I asked him to pay me the money that he owed me.
[Judge Judy] Just a second. Just a second.
- Yes. - So you still have the PlayStation?
- [Cheyanne] Yes, ma'am. - Great.
One PlayStation to you.
You live in the same state?
- Yes. - [Judge Judy] Great.
Do you want him to know your address?
He knows my address, Your Honor.
[Judge Judy] So what I want you to do is wrap the PlayStation,
and he has five days on twenty-four hours' notice to you.
He's gonna pick up the PlayStation.
Do you have a porch?
I have the front yard where I actually left his stuff.
Shh. Shh.
- But yes, I have a porch. - [Judge Judy] Good.
Leave his wrapped PlayStation on the porch.
- All right. - Perfect!
And that's on 24-hours' notice to you.
So when you say 24-hours' notice to me, I contact him if he doesn't...
- [Judge Judy] No, no. - Okay.
He's gonna contact you within five days...
- [Cheyanne] Okay. - ...of today's date.
- All right. - [Judge Judy] And say, "I will be there
on the 3rd at 9:00 AM."
- All right. - Put it out,
make sure it's out there 9:00 AM.
Take a photograph of it with a time.
Put it out there. If he picks it up, fine.
If he doesn't, it's gone.
- All righty. - [Judge Judy] Okay.
So that's the PlayStation.
What else is there?
[Jeramy] There's a bag of my clothes that I had there.
I'm not sure exactly what I had
but I have a bag of my clothes out on the street.
Just a second. Can I see that photograph?
- [Cheyanne] I actually have... - [Judge Judy] Jus-- up!
- ...that, too, ma'am. - [Judge Judy] Just, just...
Sorry.
Okay. So this is a bag of clothing that was his,
that you put out and that you received.
She said to you in this picture, "Here are your clothes"?
[Jeramy] Yes. "And you have till Friday or Sunday to come get them."
And then I told her Sunday I would come there.
[Judge Judy] Just a second.
She sent you a picture of your clothing out on the street?
- [Jeramy] Yes. - You live in the same town?
- No, I don't. - [Judge Judy] Where did you live?
I lived in McMinnville.
[Judge Judy] And how far was that from where you were living with her?
- Uh, it's not, not too far from her. - [Judge Judy] Not too far.
So she sends you a bag-- picture and said, "Come get your stuff.
I don't want this bag of your clothes here anymore."
And you didn't go get them?
Yeah, and I have a statement saying to come Friday or Sunday
to come get your stuff.
And I said, "Sunday, can I come get my stuff?"
And, and I didn't get a message or anything.
I have a message of that, too.
[Judge Judy] Then I would have ran over and gotten this garbage bag of stuff.
[Jeramy] With the animosity that was going on,
I didn't want into a fire right then, you know?
I was like--I'll come over there Friday or Sunday, I'd like to...
[Judge Judy] Very fine. Very good.
Bed, we're finished.
Return of value of property, we're finished.
Your case is dismissed. We're done here.
- Get a job. - [Kevin] Court is adjourned.
Thank you.
We had a relationship of a month-- a month and a half to two months.
It's not very long.
People aren't who they seem to be when you first meet them.
But also, like, that's enough for someone to get
and to know someone and take advantage of them.
They have a mask over them
and you got to get to know them, and watch that mask come off.
And once that mask comes off, you're just like,
"Whoa. What did--what is this?"
Uh, I'm not sure I got a text message in that, and then this soon after happened.
I was actually really nice about it.
I told him that it was over, that I was moving out my grandmother's house.
With me moving out, well, obviously you're homeless so you, you can't go with me.
I'm gonna save my money and I'm gonna get a way better job.
Ain't nobody make 47.50 like that, she ain't.
It's time for me and my daughter, not--no man.
Now Sarah, I know many people, not well,
but many people who have met on assorted dating apps
and have had long-term relationships with them,
- even some got married. - Uh-hmm.
- You could not tell that by our program. - No.
It always seems to go south.
(chuckles) It won't--not one successful go around.
- Why do you think that is? - I--I'm not sure.
You've got to go through a lot of profiles
to find one that you could be in a long-term relationship with, I guess.
You know, I would say for most thinking women, mostly,
'cause it's usually that's what we see here,
women who end up on the short end of the stick.
The first thing that they should have is a job.
- [Sarah] Yeah. - (chuckles) That's a pre-requisite one.
You could actually understand why this young man didn't have a job
- because he made more not working. - [Sarah] Uh-hmm.
Then he did working, which was a big problem
and will continue to be in this country a big problem
but has been over the last year.
And that really is a country making babies out of a whole generation of people.
I agree.
Case number 1122, Clark versus Albro.
All parties, please come forward.
[narrator] Rapper Khiry Clark is suing video director Rashad Albro
for the production cost of a music video.
Mr. Albro,
you look angry before we start.
Put your hands down.
- Uh-hmm. - [Judge Judy] Thank you.
You may get there, but I haven't started yet. (chuckles)
Now, Mr. Clark, it is your claim that the defendant,
at your request, made a music video for you that you paid him,
that he A, didn't deliver it on time,
and B, did a less than professional job
which required you to hire someone else to either do it again
or to fix it in any event.
What you are requesting is the money that you paid to Mr. Albro
and the cost of redoing the video.
Mr. Albro says that you were initially satisfied with the video,
which he acknowledges that he delivered late.
He said that because of personal issues, and he had some,
he was delayed by a couple of weeks in getting you the video,
but you were satisfied with it and subsequently called him
and told him that there were things that were deficient.
That the case?
No.
That's not the case.
Well, I don't like your attitude, Mr. Clark.
I don't care.
[Judge Judy] I think your attitude is disrespectful.
[Khiry] And you're not making any sense and reading stuff in 10 seconds.
[Judge Judy] ...I think, your attitude is disrespectful.
[Khiry] What sense does that make?
You only read stuff in 10 seconds?
So this is what I'm going to do.
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[narrator] Rapper Khiry Clark claims video director Rashad Albro
owes for the production cost of a music video.
Khiry also claims Rashad stole his video concept
and used it with a different artist.
The part that you are questioning
is the part where he says you told him you were satisfied?
I told him that I was satisfied.
[Judge Judy] So, what is it that I was mistaken
and suggesting that your position was?
[Khiry] Okay. So I'm gonna explain, Your Honor.
[Judge Judy] No, don't explain.
Just tell me the one thing that is not correct.
[Khiry] The main issue is that he basically took my original idea
that I came up with,
and he made sure that his cameraman panned me at certain positions.
so that you couldn't see anything aside from--
it goes from my head all the way down to my knees,
so you can't see any of my props
with the original idea that I came up with,
which I have documentation as well.
And he made sure that it wasn't in my video
and he put it in his clients' videos.
[Judge Judy] Mr. Clark, did you trademark or register an idea that you had?
No, I do not.
But it is in my notes that I told him the idea of what I wanted.
[Judge Judy] It doesn't mat--it doesn't matter.
- Okay. - [Judge Judy] Is that the only thing
that you have issue with, that he used some of your ideas
in the second video that he did that had nothing to do with you?
Yes. Because he made sure that he didn't put it in my video.
I told him the place that we're gonna shoot and the concept as well.
[Judge Judy] What I'm telling you is
unless you do something to trademark an idea,
- it is really not intellectual property. - Okay.
[Judge Judy] See, I don't understand, you know, making music videos.
What I understand is making parties.
So I'm gonna bring it to something I understand
and then we're gonna get to what is actionable.
I have a wonderful guy,
and he's been doing parties for me forever.
He has outrageous arrangements,
food, and cakes, and cookies,
and everything is fulsome and wonderful.
And it's really a--not only a delight to the palate but it's a delight to see.
- [Khiry] Uh-hmm. - Right?
Uh-hmm.
[Judge Judy] And there were somebody else
that I knew was a friend of the family who said,
"Gee, I'd really love to come to see one of the parties' setup
because maybe I can get an idea or two from what he's doing,
so that it would help me in my career."
I said, "Do you wanna come? Come."
You can't-- because you've envisioned something
and you put it out there, you don't hold a right to it.
So what you're saying to me is you had certain ideas
about how this was going to be portrayed, this music video,
you had certain props that were there.
And he can say, "Gee, that was a terrific idea to have a pumpkin
, to have a dancing strawberry, to have--" whatever it was.
I'm sorry, Your Honor. I, I really hate to interrupt you.
But honestly, your cake story, it is not my story, okay?
And when I came up with this original idea,
let me tell you something, I used to actually live in LA, okay?
And when I lived in LA, I was in the street.
I got my head sliced open while I was sleep on the beach.
I got my head cracked by security when I was sleep at a restaurant patio.
Everything that I went through, that is why I came up with that idea,
and that's why I put everything that I just told you about,
I put that in my track.
- That track is five minutes long. - [Judge Judy] Okay.
- You feel me? - [Judge Judy] What I'm telling you...
- So, so thing is... - [Judge Judy] What I'm--what I'm...
- Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. - [Judge Judy] What I'm telling you
is that your complaint says,
"I'm suing the defendant, Rashad Albro,
in the amount of $1,302.02
for a refund on the video shoot
and the cost to fix his work.
That's what your complaint says, so that's what I'm hearing.
- Do you understand? - I--no. What I--what I--what I put down--
what I put down is that I'm suing for the cost of the video.
- I'm suing for the $50 for... - Kevin. Kevin.
[Khiry] Okay.
- I just want you to read what I have... - [Khiry] All right.
...that you're suing for,
and what the defendant has been served with.
And that, Mr. Clark, is what you are bound to today.
- [Khiry] Uh-hmm. - Kevin, I'll take that back now.
- I didn't read it, but okay. - [Judge Judy] Well, that's--
- Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark - [Khiry] I only looked at it
so ...I mean, I don't know why you gave it to me.
Mr. Clark-- I'm gonna take it back now, Kevin.
[Khiry] You can have it back.
[Judge Judy] Mr. Clark, when you file a complaint,
a defendant in any court action is then put on notice
of what you are suing them for,
what they have to defend.
He is put on notice now of what you are suing for.
And I'm telling you, today, the only thing that I'm hearing...
- [Khiry] Uh-hmm. - ...is what you put in your complaint.
Which I didn't get to read by the way, so I don't know what it says.
- [Judge Judy] Well, Mr. Clark... - I don't know what it says.
I don't know what the complaint says.
Mr. Clark, that would be your fault.
[Khiry] How is it my fault? Because it should be in there.
But I--guess what? I didn't get to read it,
so I don't know if it's in there or not.
You told me to read--you, you want me to read that whole paper in 10 seconds?
- [Judge Judy] No. - And then you ask for it back?
[Judge Judy] No, that's what you signed.
Oh, well, didn't you give it to me to read, right?
But you signed it, sir.
But I read it earlier. And earlier it's not what you--
what you're saying that's on there.
- Would you show it to him again? - [Khiry] All I'm just saying is that
- I'm suing him for just the video. - Quiet!
- Oh, go ahead. Okay. - Quiet!
Go ahead. Okay.
- Don't sound foolish. - Oh, I'm not sounding foolish.
- [Judge Judy] If you signed it... - Who's the real one sounding foolish?
You talking about I read it. You, you wanted me to read it.
[Judge Judy] Mr. Clark, either you read this before you signed it.
I did read it so why did you hand it to me
if you wanted me to read it again?
Oh well, I don't like your attitude, Mr. Clark.
[Khiry] I don't care.
[Judge Judy] So, Mr. Clark, I don't like your attitude.
I think your attitude is disrespectful so this is what...
And you're making any sense. You're telling me to read stuff
and you--and, and read stuff in 10 seconds.
What sense does that make? You want me to read stuff in 10 seconds?
So this is what I'm going to do.
Go do what you do.
I am dismissing your case without prejudice.
[Khiry] Yeah, because I'm not-- because you're a hater,
and you really are not intelligent at all.
You take it back to the court in which you originally filed it.
Guess what, baby girl? I really don't care.
We are done here.
- [Kevin] Court is adjourned. - I really don't care.
He messed me over because he stole the original idea that I came up with,
everything that I've been through in my life.
I'm not sure, like, we-- you know, after, after the shoot...
Stole my original idea and made sure they wasn't in my video,
then I paid him a backhand payment super early
when I really didn't have to.
And he was happy with everything.
After the--after he received the video, he was happy with it.
Business associates. I've never met him a day in my life
and he said--he was a videographer,
I've seen him on Facebook, and I liked his work.
That I didn't show the props that he wanted shown,
and that I didn't deliver on time.
But guess what? I did my part.
I did my part. I did my part.
The universe know all of that. I did my part.
After all the argument and text message, he tried to book me again.
I told him we wasn't doing that,
so that's probably what he mad about, that's probably why we're here today.
[Judge Judy] Sarah, you just saw an example
of courtroom television style,
because sadly, I don't have the ability to hold somebody in contempt,
- which I would have done. - We should look into that.
Yeah. Which I had-- which I have done very sparingly
over the course of my whole career.
But I gave this litigant every opportunity,
"Back up, let's try again.
This is what your case is about."
And once you see that someone is an obstructionist,
there's only one order in a courtroom,
and that order has to come from somebody.
If it's not from a judge, it's gonna come from a litigant.
And once you let a litigant take control of the process,
then the process gets all screwed up.
Anyway, good, good luck to him in another--in another forum. (chuckles)
Uh-hmm.
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