- You ain't never met a judge like me.
- Your Honor, Your Honor!
- Shut the hell up, and let me
get this thing together.
Hey, y'all. I'm Miss Patty.
I know the inside of a courtroom.
I went to jail for selling cocaine.
Now here I am 25 years later,
sitting on this side of the bench.
- I put my faith in your hands.
- Don't put your faith in my hands.
I ain't God. I don't love you.
I'm using everything I learned on the streets...
Don't nobody owe you nothing.
To solve disputes that are tearing
real family and friends apart.
- I ain't care if he find out. What's his is mine.
- We ain't married. - We brothers.
- Hey.
These are real cases with real money on the line.
What you do with the $5,000?
- I'll let you know.
- Well, I'm here. Let me know.
And I'm bringing my own family and friends
to court as my jurors.
Their opinions are like diarrhea.
It belongs in the toilet.
- You out of order.
Matter of fact, this whole damn courtroom
is out of order.
- Y'all may have started it.
But I'm going to settle it.
- Let's just wrap this up because I'm
getting very irritated.
- You keep running your mouth,
you ain't gonna get nothing.
Court is now in session.
Baby, don't do me.
Do Jesus, because he got
more patience with you, OK?
[upbeat music]
- She's not a real judge, but she will sentence you
to life for being a fool.
All rise for the Honorable Ms. Pat.
♪ ♪
- Y'all can have a seat.
I don't know why she don't stand.
I guess she done lost her feet.
If I could put her ass in jail, I would.
[laughter]
- All right, jurors, y'all know why y'all here?
- We gon' get to the truth.
- The truth. - The "truf" with an F.
And, Bailiff, you know why you're here?
- Oh, yeah.
- Well, then, start doing your job then, Bailiff.
This is the case of Mitchell versus Wilson.
- Plaintiff Tomeka Mitchell is suing her best friend Tonia
for 350 bucks for a wig that she installed
that Tonia has not paid for.
Tomeka says her friend flipped her wig
when she was done styling it like she wanted
and ran out of the shop without paying.
Defendant Tonia Wilson is counter-suing for $200
for the wig that she said Tomeka butchered.
- Before we get started, I just want
to let y'all know that this is a jury of my peers, OK?
Only listen to me.
My opinion is the only one that matters, OK?
With that said, Tomeka Mitchell,
Tonia Wilson, that's you?
- Yes, Your Honor. - OK, you can smile.
This is court, baby.
Tomeka, tell me why we're here today.
- I am here today to sue Tonia for my $350.
- $350 for what?
- She asked me to do an install for her birthday.
- Which is a wig.
- But she bought me a cheap wig.
She did not pay for me to do her hair.
- Tonia, tell me your side of the story.
- So, first of all, it was my birthday.
And you only turn 56 one time.
So I said, OK, I'm going to trust in my friend to make me
feel fabulous for my birthday.
But that didn't happen, because by the time I put that wig on,
I looked like Joe Dirt.
I need to counter-sue her for my $200 for getting
the wig that she [bleep] up.
- Ooh.
- Tomeka, talk me through the day
that she brought her lovely wig over...
- OK, so-- - And had you to install it.
And I'm going to get with you in a minute, OK?
- Yes, ma'am.
- Girl, don't walk out to Jesus.
Just hold on. - Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am.
- 'Cause any time they start rocking like that,
they might be about to pull out something.
[laughter]
Just take a breath, girl.
I'm coming to you, OK? - OK.
- OK, so she comes over.
She pulls out the wig.
And I'm like, OK.
- Was it human hair?
- It was synthetic.
- Did you know that you brought her
a synthetic wig?
- When I got the wig, it was fabulous.
- Is the wig here today?
- Yes, it is.
- Can I get the wig? - So, Your Honor--
- [screams] - Oh, hell no.
- That's not the wig. That's not!
- Why would you do that?
- That is not my wig.
[laughter]
- I can't look at it. - Oh, hell no.
- Give it a spin so everybody can see the whole head.
[laughter]
- Oh, my God. - Dear God.
- I need you to be quiet.
Can I see the picture that you gave her,
how you wanted the wig cut.
Do you have any evidence? - No.
- So this is what you want.
- That is the look that it should have been.
And that's what I went for.
- And obviously, that's not what it is.
- And we only tapered the sides.
- Is this your Farrah Fawcett wig, ma'am?
- That's the wig I took, yes, ma'am.
- You did that.
- She bought a cheap wig.
- So this wig was so cheap, it couldn't even take a part.
- No, we didn't get the part.
But we did have the swoop with the feathers.
- Do you have a picture what her hair looked like after?
- So look at that.
- Now, tell her to put on the wig.
- That is the wig!
That is a picture of the wig.
- The resemblance is uncanny. - Look at that.
- Excuse me, is this the wig that she cut for you?
- That's that wig, right there!
- That's that wig right there? - Yes!
- OK, OK.
- Ain't no way in the world I'm going
to give you some damn money.
- She's very drama-ish.
- Ma'am, she got on a Jheri Curl wig today.
She can't be that much drama-ish.
- 'Cause she can't afford the real stuff.
That's why she look like that right now.
- Ooh!
- All right, jury, what we gon' do with this one?
Carmen, what you think?
- You can't even use it at the mortuary.
This will wake the dead, this wig is so horrible.
- That's the wig they were robbing people in
and set it off.
That look crazy.
[laughter]
- Tomeka, give me your final words
before I make my decision.
- I feel I should get the $350 because I did do the job.
I took my time out.
I supplied her with all of the things
that she requested to get her hair done.
And she ran out on me.
- What is your final word, Sonia?
- I feel that I don't have to pay her anything.
And I'm counter-suing for the money that I paid for the wig.
I grabbed my stuff and ran out because I was horrified.
You a hair stylist.
You should be able to fix anything.
- I'm talking about your final words.
Why are you arguing? - Because she's bothering me.
- I've heard enough, to the point where
this shit got me itching.
I'm going to settle this once and for all.
Tonia, you went out and bought a synthetic wig.
I don't know a synthetic wig that costs $200.
We all know, we ask for human hair or synthetic hair.
And usually synthetic hair is in a bin
because don't nobody want it.
Tomeka, I'm going to keep it real with you.
Now, you know damn well, you can't fix no hair.
You know you couldn't have gave that girl
a Farrah Fawcett, a Jiminy Cricket.
You are dangerous with scissors.
You destroyed her synthetic wig.
- That's all she bought anyway.
- We can't tell her what to buy.
But what we do know is, she's saying
she paid $200 for that thing.
And that thing ain't thinging right now.
- See?
- 'Cause that thing right there
is an undercover brother.
I'm going to settle this right now.
[dramatic music]
And I'm going to rule in favor of...
Tonia, the defendant,
for $100 of her Joe Dirt wig that she say
she paid $200 for.
And it's only because the trim she
gave on that thing was, what is it, Edgar Scissorhands?
- Edward Scissorhands. - Yeah, Edra Scissorhands.
- Edra Scissorhands?
- Not the real one, the one I'm talking about,
Edra Scissorhand.
[laughs]
And that settles it.
- OK. - You are dismissed.
- Thank you.
- And so is your wig.
- Don't cut no more hair.
That's what you shouldn't have done.
- Oh, my God, this thing thin.
I don't need no more wigs for today, OK?
Because I don't know where these people live at.
They must live in Alabama, child.
They can fight.
But they sure don't know how to buy hair.
Catfishing? - Catfishing me.
Let me show y'all what he told me that he looked like.
- Wait a minute, he sent you Ray J picture?
[laughter]
So you're making about a million a year?
- My face is on the truck.
- But I'm in the commercials.
- You can put money in one hand and give it to the other hand,
pimp and ho.
[laughter]
- All right, jury, let's get this thing started.
It is your job to render a verdict
until I decide you're wrong.
Bailiff, start them up.
- This is the case of Glover versus Abrams.
- Plaintiff Romeo Glover is suing his on again,
off again partner, Lanier, for $2,250
he spent on photography equipment
to help get his career started.
He says Lanier started blowing up in business,
but has been blowing off his loan.
Defendant Lanier Abrams says the money
was an investment, not a loan.
And if Romeo wanted the money back,
he should have let the relationship develop.
- Raise your right hand.
[dramatic music]
- Romeo Glover, that's you?
- Yes.
- Lanier Abrams, you, you?
- Yeah, you can call me Legend, though.
- Did you say Legend?
- Yes, ma'am.
- I'm going to call you Lanier.
Tell your mama to call you Legend.
- Ooh.
- So, Romeo, tell me why you're here.
- I'm suing my ex, Lanier, for money
that I loaned him for his photography business.
- Lanier, how do you see it?
- He definitely told me that it was a gift.
He really didn't start asking about this money
until we broke up.
That's kind of why I'm like, he doesn't even deserve it.
- Ooh, was you dating at the time of this loan?
Was y'all in a relationship?
- Yes.
- Which is why, even more so, it was a gift.
- You lost your mind.
What do you mean, that's a gift?
You crazy. I need my money back.
- I was going to ask you, was it a loan or a gift?
- That was a loan.
- You just turned into a whole dude in this [bleep].
[laughter]
- Well, he about to whoop on you.
So, Romeo, why did you give him the money?
- I gave him the money because at the time when we
was dating, like, I loved him.
He was so sweet and genuine.
And he was there for me when I was coming out.
- Coming out of where?
- Like, coming out of the closet, like, from being gay.
- Oh, OK, I thought you was getting out of jail.
I'm sorry. - Oh, no.
[laughter]
- So you guys had a connection.
- I thought we did and stuff.
So I just gave him a chance.
Like, I got you.
Like, just make sure you pay me within 30 days.
That's not no chump change.
That's a lot of money, you know what I mean?
- Is there evidence that Lanier was going to pay you back?
- I have receipts of me sending him the money.
- Bailiff, get that for me, please.
- And I told him that it's a loan.
I want my money back. - Oh, Cash App.
- Correct.
- It doesn't say if it was a loan or not.
- It also doesn't say, pay me back, under the notes.
- I'm not sure if this is a loan or a gift.
- He told me that it was a gift, so--
- I never said that. - It's not true.
- No.
- Can you please tell me how you and Lanier met?
- Me and him met through a dating app.
- Which one, honey?
- What you talking about, which one?
- Grindr.
- Tinder.
In the beginning, it was cool.
But then, as time went on, I've seen that he was a liar,
a manipulator, a narcissist.
- Does this look like a face of a liar, Your Honor?
Come on. - Yes.
- Thank you, mm-hmm.
He even catfished me in the beginning
when we first started talking.
- He catfished you? - He catfished me.
Let me show y'all what he told me that he looked like
because I keep receipts.
- Ooh!
- Now, you tell me if they look alike.
[laughter]
- Wait a minute.
- That don't make no sense.
- He sent you Ray J picture?
- Damn, I look good.
- Did you tell him that this was you, sir?
- I sure did.
I mean, I think I look like him.
Do you not?
- You don't like you can be this man's cousin.
Romeo, do you have anything to say for yourself
before I make my decision?
- Yeah, I just want my money back
that I loaned him, so he could just get out my life,
and he could just leave me alone.
He definitely has been having, like, a lot of big clients.
So he clearly got the money.
- Lanier, Legend, what do you have to say?
- Your Honor, this whole court case is spite.
He wasn't acting like this or asking for his money back
until we broke up, and he started seeing me
working with other clients.
- I broke up with you, Lanier.
- He told me to go pursue my dreams.
He wanted me to become this big photographer.
And I did just that.
- This is sad.
This relationship used to be good.
But looks like it, to me, Lanier,
you turned it into a bunch of lies.
You sounding like you're insecure because you sent him
a picture of something that you could
never look like, not even close,
not even if you got diabetes.
But seriously, you are enough.
And the right person is going to love you for who you are.
That person ain't Romeo, which is sad,
because I think y'all look good together
in the dark.
And, Romeo, two things you don't mix,
baby, is love and loans.
Bank of America ain't never asked you, do they love you?
But they ask you to pay back their loan.
I've made my decision.
I'm ruling in favor of...
Romeo for the amount of $2,250.
Lanier, leave that man alone.
Stay out of his inbox.
And stop calling him because he don't want you.
Y'all can go unless you waiting on an Uber.
[upbeat music]
- I'ma call you about some photos, though.
- This is a prime example that you do not
fund other people's dreams.
If they can go to sleep and dream it,
then they can wake up and work for it.
- Right. - That's true.
- This man is insane.
- Do you still work for him?
- Maybe not for long.
- [laughs]
- Shut your ass over there.
- Jury, you're here to talk when I tell you to
and laugh at my jokes.
- [chuckles]
That was funny.
- Shut your ass up.
[dramatic music]
Bailiff, you ready to start bailiffing?
- Let's get to it.
This is the case of Pruitt versus Cunningham.
- Oscar Pruitt is the CEO of a successful air conditioning
company, who's demanding 1,500 bucks in back tips
from his employee and friend, AC Cunningham.
But defendant Abanyeh "AC" Cunningham
isn't having any of it, and says
he earned the cash fair and square,
and that his boss should chill out.
- Can you raise your right hand for me?
♪ ♪
- Oscar Pruitt, that's you?
- Yes, ma'am.
- And Abeashe?
How the hell do you say your name?
- Abanyeh.
- Are you African?
- American. - Oh, definitely.
Well, I can see why they call you AC, Abanyeh.
All right.
- So, Mr. Pruitt, tell us why we're here.
- I'm the owner of OPACHS AC and Heating Service.
I'm here suing my employee for failing to split tips with me
on jobs that we were assigned to perform.
- OK, AC, what you got to say to this?
- This is ridiculous.
Yeah, he owns the company.
But he don't do no work.
He comes in and talks to people for a second,
and then goes and sits in the truck and gets cool air.
Why would you tip a waiter next to you that ain't did no work?
- So, Oscar, how long have you guys been friends?
- About 11 years.
- How did you go from being his buddy to being his boss?
- I was in need of help.
He was in need of a job. And I brought him on.
And I trained him up.
- He's a terrible teacher, too.
I learned most of the stuff off of YouTube.
- Oscar, let me ask you something.
If you're the CEO, why do you get tips?
- Somebody's got to do the thinking.
- Oh, no.
- This man is insane.
- Oscar, are you really crawling
around up under the house in your nice dry cleaned outfit?
- Well, ma'am, some of us can't get under the house.
- Come on.
- That was a low blow.
- I believe AC can get up under the house.
- I can get under some houses.
- Oscar, when you hired AC, was there any discussion
of splitting tips?
- Yes, there was, ma'am.
And we have a contract here
that says we have to split tips equally.
- Is this true?
- Yeah, I didn't know what I was signing.
- Don't nobody read them contracts.
- Bailiff, give me the contract.
So you're saying you didn't know what you was signing.
Could you not read?
- No, I could read.
It says, split between the people doing the work.
It don't say nothing about people there.
- What?
- All commission and tips are to be divided equally
between the numbers of field techs on job site
at the point of sale.
Oscar, are you a field tech?
- Sometimes, I am. I still turn screws.
- Do you still work for him?
- Maybe not for long. - Well, damn, killer.
- Air conditioning CEO Oscar Pruitt
is suing his friend and employee, AC Cunningham,
for $1,500 for cooling off on sharing the tips.
Ms. Patt is going to get to the bottom of this.
- What do you make a year from this company?
- Around about 90.
- A pretty good damn job to be not fitting
in some crawl spaces.
Oscar, how much are you bringing in a year?
I know you're getting paid.
- There's some nines in there.
- So you're making about a million a year?
- My face is on the truck.
- Your face is on the truck?
- But I'm in the commercials.
- Mm.
Bailiff, where's the remote?
Let's see this commercial.
♪ ♪
Oh, there you go.
Oh, you look good in the commercial!
- He owe you some residuals.
OK, he did good in the commercial.
- He walked, Carmen.
- We had to do that shot 12 times because he kept
messing up getting out of the truck.
- Because he used to being in the truck.
That's why. - Yeah.
- All right, jury, I need to hear what y'all think.
Chris?
- I worked on construction sites for 15 years.
- You're lying.
- I did.
You were telling the truth, that this man hasn't
touched a wrench in 15 years.
- But they signed a contract.
- But is he a field tech or the CEO?
- You can put money in one hand and give it to the other hand,
pimp and ho.
- All right, so who's with Oscar?
Who with AC?
Wait a minute, didn't you raise your hand twice?
- Yeah.
- Why? - I get it both.
I feel for both of them.
- I didn't ask you for both.
I ask you, who are you with?
I'm with them.
Judge, who do you want me to be with?
- Shut your ass up, Ray J.
Oscar, any final statement before I make my ruling?
- I do work.
I do run calls.
I'm only talking about tips, which I was on the job,
being active physically with the work.
- And, AC, you got any final statements?
- He don't really do no work.
- I'm trying to understand what he needs tips for, anyway.
He owns the company.
So everything I do, he get paid off of.
So now, he want to get paid off the tips, too?
- Answer that question, Oscar.
- Yes.
- OK, I've heard enough.
Oscar, I don't know why the owner of a company need tips.
I mean, it is greedy that you would
take from the people that's not making the same amount
of money that you are.
But, AC, he did have a contract.
And the contract stated that the field
workers would split the tip.
I'm ruling in favor of...
♪ ♪
AC.
♪ ♪
You don't have to give Oscar any of your tips.
- Thank you.
- I'm not as big as that dude.
So for him to go in that basement,
and you said you're behind in that truck.
And then you want half of the tip.
And you're the owner and the CEO.
It's not right.
Now, AC, go be cool somewhere else
and get yourself a four for four.
- You are dismissed.
- I still don't believe you get in there.
- [bleep] you.
- I'm here today to sue my friend Shonda
for breaking our contract on a girls trip.
No men were allowed in any of our rooms.
- They don't be opposed, Your Honor, when they be watching.
- Oh. - This took a turn.
- I'm suing for a valuable watch, broken.
- I don't know how it got broken.
- Your wrist choked it out.
- She ordered some tamales.
Once I started talking about the payment,
that's when it kind of went sideways.
- Ooh, she took a big bite.
- How were the tamales?
- Thumbs down.
- Not the way y'all were sucking them up.
- Yeah, yeah!
- OK, y'all, I got to settle this once and for all.