- 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 Ms. Pat.
I know the inside of a courtroom.
I went to jail for selling cocaine.
Now here I am, sitting on this side of the bench.
- Put my faith in your hands.
- I ain't God. I don't love you.
These are real cases
with real money on the line.
What you do with the $5,000?
- I-I'll let you know.
- Well, I'm here. Let me know.
- Let's just wrap this up
'cause 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,
'cause he got more patience with you, okay?
[gavel bangs]
- When she settles it,
that's that.
All rise
for Ms. Pat.
[intriguing music]
- Please have a seat.
♪ ♪
How you doing, jury? Y'all awake?
all: Yeah. - Barely.
- Well, I need you to wake up 'cause I need your energy, OK?
- OK, let's go.
- All right, bailiff. You ready?
- Let's go. - Go on and do it then.
- This is the case
of Green versus Frucel.
- Plaintiff Iasha Green is suing her ex-mentee,
Taylor Frucel, for $3,000.
Iasha claims she showed Taylor how to start
her now-successful real estate business,
so she needs to pay Green some green.
Defendant Taylor Frucel says
that Iasha mentored her briefly
and never brought up money.
They may live in Scam-lanta,
but she refuses to get scammed by Iasha.
- Before we get started, I'd just like to tell you,
this is a jury of my peers.
Don't pay any attention to them.
They just like Taco Tuesday.
It ain't real.
[laughter]
- What?
- I went last night.
- No, it's made up by other people.
- You celebrate it every t--
you give gifts and everything.
[laughter]
- Iasha Green?
- Yes.
- And Taylor Frucel?
- Frucel, that's right. How are you, queen?
- When Black women say "queen," they full of shit.
- Uh-huh. [laughter]
- I'm glad somebody knows it. Go ahead.
- Mm-hmm. - All right.
- All right, Iasha, can you please
tell me why we're here today?
- So I am here to sue Taylor
because she owes me $3,000
for a mentorship on real estate.
I teach people how to buy properties
or, in her case, rent them...
[audience oohs]
And do short-term rentals.
- And you charge people for that?
- Absolutely.
My time and expertise.
- What make you so great at real estate
and all of these other things that you said you did for her?
- I'm very successful. I have seven rental properties
currently. - OK.
- And I own nine properties in total.
- Ooh. - What's up?
- OK. Well, Taylor,
tell me about this conversation
you and Ms. Green had.
- Well, first of all, we never had a conversation
about mentorship, OK?
One thing that we discussed is both of us
elevating ourselves and our business.
In this industry here, it is all about your image,
and that was something that she didn't have.
Yeah, she had her construction hat
and her construction gloves,
but she had no image.
I was trying to bring her a beautiful image.
- So she was giving "Bob the Builder,"
and you made her sexy?
- Period.
I've been here for three years,
and I realized Atlanta got a lot of scamming going on,
and this is the product of Scam-lanta.
[audience oohs]
- There was no contract that said,
"You're gonna have to pay me to mentor you"?
- Yes. I have an invoice.
It is right here. - Wait a minute.
Let me ask you this before you give me this invoice.
- OK. - Was Taylor aware
of this invoice that she was running up?
- Yes.
- OK, give it to me.
- There you go. - Judge, may I?
- Yes. - So the invoice came
a year and a half later.
- OK. - She approached me
first on the phone,
and I laughed it off.
We ended up at an event together.
She approaches me in front of everybody,
gets physical... [audience oohs]
Pulls my ponytail off
literally in front of everybody in the party.
After I got my-- - It's not real,
so was it your ponytail? - Girl, it doesn't matter.
You should've never took it that far.
- You should've got a better ponytail.
[laughter]
- Then she told me I couldn't get my ponytail back
until I paid her the money.
- [chuckling]
- You held her ponytail hostage?
- Held it hostage for a payment.
That's how petty she is.
- But my thing is, y'all was friends about a year?
Y'all was going to-- - Mentee.
- Huh? - Mentee.
- Now it's mentee. - Well, see, let me say this
to you, Iasha. - Mm-hmm.
- Nobody just walks around and call nobody "my mentee."
- They do, but they changed the name.
It used to be pimp.
[laughter]
- Did you tell Taylor that your relationship came
with a price tag?
- I never wanted to be her friend.
[audience oohs]
- Bitch, you gonna say, back up,
'cause there's a fee to talk to Iasha.
- I waived that fee because usually,
you do have to pay a fee to talk to me.
If you go on my website... - Oh, my God.
I can't take it. - You'll see it.
Consultation fee. - So if you waived the fee,
why are we here? - Girl, stop.
- For us to do mentorship and for her to come
out in the field with me, that was the fee.
- Can I please see the price sheet
for your mentorship, for you talking to people?
Lord have mercy. - You have it.
[laughter]
- "Business Start-up, 300 and up.
Corporate Staff Coaching Solution, 2000 per hour."
I want to see the "Chick That Went to the Club With You" fee.
Where that fee at?
- Took you to all the events.
- All right, jury, help me settle this, OK?
- Well, me and Ms. Pat toured together for many years,
and I taught her a lot of stuff.
And now that you just made me think about it,
I never charged her for it.
So all while y'all talking, I'm pretty much thinking--
- Pull out that calculator, baby.
- No, I just got it in my mind.
I think we smiled together once.
That counts, 'cause you didn't know how to smile.
- Absolutely. - You didn't know how to smile
before me, Ms. Pat. - Pull out that calculator.
- And now that you mention it, Ms. Pat,
you know, you've done so much for me.
You came to LA; you helped me with my set.
At the end of the day, I think I owe you
my ponytail and my left boob, all you did for me.
This is ridiculous. [laughter]
- Taylor, I hope you learn one thing from this situation.
When you meet somebody in this industry,
the first thing you need to ask them,
am I being charged to hang out with you?
[laughter] - That's right.
- 'Cause I didn't even know you pay people to tell you
that there was a house for sale down the street.
[laughter]
Iasha, when you're selling stuff,
the price comes first.
Not one time she knew she was on the clock
'cause you didn't tell her.
If you had told that girl you was mentoring her,
she would've went on and found her another victim,
I guarantee you that, 'cause I can see it in her face.
She thinks she's the plug.
- I'm glad somebody know it.
- Both of y'all think y'all the plug.
I've heard enough, and I'm gonna settle it right now.
[suspenseful music]
I'm ruling in favor of...
♪ ♪
The defendant, Taylor.
- What?
- If it's your business,
you tell people your price up front.
You didn't tell her.
And you should give her back her ponytail.
- Or I can take yours now. Can I?
- No.
[laughter]
That settles it.
- You are dismissed.
- Y'all don't want to make up y'all friendship?
- No.
- I want this ponytail.
[audience oohs]
- If I don't get this one first.
- Even a prostitute tells you the price
before she get in your car and go down.
- Sometimes.
[laughter]
- Was you expecting to be paid?
- Yes, the verbal agreement was $100 an event.
- And it wasn't sex?
- It wasn't sex. - Thank you.
Nobody works for sex.
- Well, some people do 'cause, uh--
- Are you crazy?
Where you been at?
- I'ma need y'all to stay alert
'cause I need y'all to be "juror-ing."
- That's a word?
- Today.
[laughter]
All right, bailiff.
Let's get this party started.
- This is the case
of Hughes versus Rawls.
- Plaintiff Esa Hughes is suing
his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Latoya,
for $3,752 for never paying him
for working at her lemonade stand business.
- Hello. - Hello, Your Honor.
- How you doing? - Doing good. How you doing?
- Defendant Latoya Rawls said the money they profited
was spent to grow the business,
and Esa is barking up the wrong lemon tree
if he thinks she's gonna pay him that much money.
- All right, let's get this party started.
So tell me why we're here, uh, "Eh-sa."
Is it "Eh-sa"? - Esa.
- "Esa" like,
"I'll Esa now, Esa later."
- OK. [laughter]
That should be easy for my big ass.
[laughs] Thank you, DeRay.
Esa? - Yes.
- Tell me why we're here.
- We're here today 'cause I'm suing my girlfriend
for $3,752 in unpaid wages.
I worked for her for about seven years.
I put in $752, and I worked over 35 events.
And our verbal agreement was,
she was supposed to pay me $100 each event.
- Did she pay you? - No.
- OK, Latoya, give me your side of the story.
- Well, I've been selling lemonade
for about five years, not seven.
You know, I do a lot of events, fairgrounds, carnivals,
and I started everything alone.
I don't think Esa deserves any money from me.
[audience oohs]
I don't even know why Esa would even think that.
- Was you together when you started this business?
- Off and on.
Sometimes.
- Was you off or was you on?
- Both.
Sometimes we on. Sometimes we off.
You know, sometimes it just-- it goes that way.
- So y'all on when he working,
but off when it's time to pay him?
[laughter]
- Is that the situation?
- No.
- Did you ever have a payment agreement?
- We had a verbal agreement
that she was supposed to pay me $100 each event.
- So you never got paid $100 ever?
- I ain't never get it 'cause she always said
she needed it for things, like, personal.
[audience oohs] - That's not true.
- Do you have any photos of this lemonade stand?
- I mean, I have a few photos.
- Is it liquor in it?
- No, it's not spiked.
- No liquor? - It's not spiked.
[laughter]
- That's a nice lil' stand.
That's a nice lil' lemonade stand.
- Is this both of y'all together?
- Yes, it is; that's at Tower City, Cleveland, Ohio.
- What was y'all bringing in? Just--
- Anywhere between 3,000 to 4,000.
- So $3,000 to $4,000?
- Yeah. - In, like, two days.
- In two days? - Yeah.
- And you couldn't pay $100?
- No.
- I'm not paying Esa anything...
- She didn't pay me nothing. - Because we were
actually living together.
While we're living together, all the money
that was profited-- - Stop.
Let me say this to you.
- Mm-hmm.
- I used to do the same thing,
right there at the Georgia Dome, with hot dogs.
When my husband clocked in, I had to pay his ass,
'cause if I didn't pay my husband for pouring that beer,
he was gon' quit.
- [laughs]
- He thought he was gonna get paid.
He didn't want to be paid in snatch.
[laughter]
Was you expecting to be paid?
- Yes, the verbal agreement was $100 an event.
- And it wasn't sex?
- It wasn't sex, no. - Thank you.
Nobody works for sex.
- Well, some people do 'cause, uh,
if you want to be technical about it...
- Are you crazy?
Where you been at?
- There was never an agreement for Esa to get paid
to do anything, because all of the money
that was made went towards everything that we were doing.
- Now, she's supposed to pay you $100
for each event, right?
- Mm-hmm. - She owes you 3,700.
It took you 37 times to figure out
this lady wasn't gonna give you no money?
[laughter]
- She got that Beyoncé lemonade, huh?
[laughter]
- Esa, I wouldn't take it.
If I was you, I would go work for Home Depot.
You already got the uniform on right now.
[laughter]
- I have to say this, Latoya.
What you did was very selfish.
$3,700, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
But you show weakness.
- Yeah. - You allow her to control you,
and that was your control.
She fed you, she kissed you, she loved you
so she wouldn't have to pay you.
[audience oohs]
- Man, you should've already knew
what kind of person she was
'cause kids have lemonade stands,
and she wanted to go up against them.
- Exactly. [laughter]
- Look at the market she entered.
- That's wrong.
- After hearing all of this, I'ma settle it right now.
[suspenseful music]
I'm ruling in the favor...
♪ ♪
Of the plaintiff, Esa,
for the full amount--$3,752.
[applause] - Thank you so much.
Thank you so much, Your Honor.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
I needed that.
- If you want your business to grow,
you're gonna need other people to help you.
You think if I stop paying this bailiff,
he gonna put on that ugly-ass uniform?
- Nope.
- But you're selfish.
It's all about you.
And when you like that,
your business is not gonna grow, girlfriend,
'cause he gonna tell the next person
not to fool with you because you don't pay.
Now that settles it.
- You are dismissed.
- Thank you. All right, jury.
- All right, Sweet and Sour.
- DC, what would you do
if a woman tried to pull that on you?
- I'd put some liquor in that lemonade.
Don't put no liquor, then somebody's gonna--
there's gonna be some liquor going on.
[laughs]
- I'm suing my cousin Kyle for $1,000
for damages to the rented vehicle.
- I don't know where the damages came from.
- Are you a good driver?
- I'm a very good driver. I drive professionally.
- Uber or Lyft?
[laughter]
- Y'all good, jury? - Yes.
- Yes, yes, ma'am.
- Don't y'all forget you got one job and one job only, OK?
Make me look good and laugh.
[laughter]
All right, baby. Do what you do.
- This is the case
of Strange versus Land.
- Plaintiff Jamal Strange is suing
his cousin and best friend, Kyle, for $1,000,
after he says Kyle damaged the car he rented.
Jamal wants Kyle to admit he put a dent
in both the car and their relationship.
- Them pants wanna be shorts bad as hell.
- They capris.
He got on knickerbockers.
- Defendant Kyle Land said he didn't cause any damage.
- Dressed strange too.
- He hopes Ms. Pat will dismiss the case.
It was probably a hit-and-run.
- There's two naked mannequins at Macy's.
[laughter]
- Order in my court.
- Swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
- Yes. - Jamal, can you please
tell me why we're here today?
- I'm suing my cousin Kyle for $1,000
for damages to the rented vehicle.
- 1,000? - Yes, ma'am.
So I was in Atlanta,
visiting my cousin Kyle, handling some business.
I rented a vehicle, and earlier that day,
we were out, went to the gym,
ran some errands or what have you.
And I was tired, so I kind of just laid down.
And later on that evening, I heard, like,
the keys jingling and stuff, and I was like,
oh, all right, well, he about to take the car.
I'm like, all right, that's cool.
So the next day,
I went to go return the car,
and I noticed all these scratches and dents on the car.
I had a $1,000 deductible,
so my insurance company will cover the rest.
I just had to cover the 1,000.
I get back home; I call him.
I'm like, did you notice the dents and scratches on the car?
"I didn't do nothing. I didn't do nothing."
I ain't said you did nothing yet.
So we're here so I can reclaim my $1,000 back.
- All right, Kyle,
can you please tell me your side of the story.
- My cousin and I, we were supposed to be
meeting up with some friends at the club.
I took the keys, and I went to the club.
I didn't drink or anything, you know what I'm saying,
because I did know that he had a rental car,
and I wanted to be responsible.
- Did you give the car to valet?
- No. I just parked the car.
I parked the car in the parking lot.
- You took the car out, and while you had the car parked,
it could have got some damage.
- Yes. - So that makes you responsible
for the car 'cause you the one took the car to the club.
- I don't know where the damages came from.
I didn't see them. I don't know.
[scattered laughter]
- Are you a good driver?
- I'm a very good driver.
I drive professionally.
- Uber or Lyft?
[laughter]
- Obviously NASCAR.
[laughter]
- All right, juror.
Can I see this damage, please?
- Absolutely.
[intriguing music]
- Oh, that's a lot of damage for a rental car.
- Damn.
You would know that happened.
- So when you found out he wrecked your rental car,
would you say that really "Hertz"?
[laughter]
- Good one, DeRay.
That's a good one.
- Did he ruin your "Enterprise"?
[laughter]
- Stop it!
- That $1,000 got you on a "Budget."
[laughter]
- I need y'all to stop.
- And those pants are inter-"National."
[laughter]
- OK.
- All right, sorry. - Enough of that.
[laughter]
- Plaintiff Jamal Strange is suing his cousin Kyle
for $1,000 for damage to his rental car.
But Kyle says he didn't do it.
Ms. Pat is looking to settle this
before these cousins hit-and-run up on each other.
- When you took this car back to him,
you gonna tell me you didn't notice this?
- I didn't see that.
[groans and laughter] - What?
- Do you feel like you had anything to do with this?
- I don't feel like I had anything to do with it
because when he parks his car in front of my house,
when I look out my window, the passenger side is
facing my house, so I would have seen it,
or he would have seen it walking to the car.
- So are you saying between him going
to fill the car up and return the car,
somewhere, somehow, somebody hit him?
- Had to be, 'cause I didn't hit him.
- He should write movies.
[laughter]
This story is amazing.
- DeRay, what you think?
- Dude crashed the car.
He just don't got $1,000 right now.
And I can tell by the way he crashed into that outfit.
[laughter]
- DC, what do you think?
- Where is your car, man?
- He wrecked it.
- Did he?
He wrecked his car. - Do you have a car?
- No, I don't. - What happened to it?
- But you a professional driver with no car?
[laughter]
- Carmen, what do you think?
- Judge, I think if you award him the $1,000,
you need to put a little asterisk
that he gotta buy looser pants with this money.
[laughter]
That's the only way you win this case tonight.
- That cover the ankle part...
- Yeah. - 'Cause if we turn
the air conditioner on the floor in here,
both of them gonna start sneezing.
- OK?
[laughter]
- I hate to see cousins this close fighting,
and I hope you guys still love each other.
After hearing this case,
I'ma settle it right now.
[suspenseful music]
I'm ruling in favor of...
♪ ♪
The plaintiff, Jamal.
You two is gonna split this down the middle, $500,
and I want you to patch up this relationship.
But Kyle?
- Yes, ma'am?
- I ain't gonna say you did it,
but we know you did it.
[laughter]
And that's not how you treat family,
'cause that is your first
or second or third or sixth cousin.
OK?
So I need a dap, a hug.
Come on, Black men, put this thing back together.
- Yeah, come on. - Nipple to nipple, baby.
- No, a hug.
- Aww. - Squeeze him tight.
[applause]
- OK. Now that settles it.
- Thank you. - Make sure you're
the one driving, Jamal.
- Absolutely, y'all. - Thank you.
- Can y'all be easy on these people?
- They wearing them out. - They walked in the door,
and you told them their pants were nut-huggers.
[laughter]
Keep your family close
and your pants closer.
[laughter]
- He left me stranded. - She ended up
sleeping with my brother.
[audience oohs]
- Now, had that been the uncle,
that would have been a little bit of, you know,
break in the family.
It's the brother.
- I'm suing my daughter because I took her to the Bahamas,
and she didn't pay me my money.
- I plan family vacations all the time,
but them suckers pay me.
You don't trust nobody, especially your kids.
[laughter]
So she stole your man and your purses
and your shoes and your perfume?
- It was on the Ring cam.
- What? - If he do it to her,
he gonna do it to you.
Personally, I think he's a piece of shit.