We wonder what having Judge Judy as a roommate would be like? Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the “Judge Judy” litigants who made us want to swear off roommates/landlords forever.
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00:00Your Honor, if she would have not moved out the way that she had, we would have not moved out either.
00:03I don't care.
00:04You should though.
00:05I know, I know, listen to me.
00:07I don't care.
00:09Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the Judge Judy litigants
00:14who made us want to swear off roommates or landlords forever.
00:17I think that you overstepped it and you abused the system.
00:23Number 10.
00:24Odd Man Out.
00:25The slippery defendants, Oscar and Eduardo,
00:28subleased a bedroom to the plaintiff in a three-bedroom apartment.
00:31Well, in reality, they subleased a living room for him to sleep in.
00:35Where did you sleep?
00:36I agreed to stay in the living room on the couch.
00:39But they still charged him.
00:41What already sounds like an unfair situation got worse when the defendants' relatives moved
00:45into the same living room they rented to the plaintiff.
00:48Mr. Saavedra, after you signed the lease, at any point did any other people move in
00:53to the apartment?
00:54Yes, Your Honor.
00:54Who?
00:55My brother, Miguel Saavedra and Anna.
00:57Their roommate didn't just sit down and take this, and they think he's in the wrong.
01:02Did you give him his rent back for January?
01:04We did not because he's still on the lease.
01:07I don't care.
01:08You got a lot of nerve moving in additional relatives to stay in his bedroom.
01:12Their entitlement speaks volumes.
01:14Judge Judy is not impressed with these defendants from the jump.
01:18Even one of them going to pour himself some water irritates her.
01:22Do you really need water?
01:23Yes.
01:24Yes.
01:269.
01:27Watch Your Mouth
01:28Two college students move into an apartment together.
01:31When did the two of you move in together, Ms. Williams?
01:33We moved in together February 3rd.
01:35Of this year?
01:36Yes.
01:36Judging by the amount of eye-rolling, it unsurprisingly did not end well.
01:41Plaintiff Raven Miyamoto loaned defendant Daisha Williams money to cover her rent.
01:46She's in court to collect that and additional costs.
01:49Instead of legal arguments, interpersonal drama takes center stage,
01:53with personal slights being made on both sides.
01:56She was dealing with past traumas and asked me to move in with her.
02:01She's not your mother.
02:02Oh, I know.
02:03Pay your own rent.
02:04The judge is predictably annoyed.
02:06But when Miyamoto decides to literally call BS, she seals her own fate.
02:11We had been having issues beforehand,
02:14and there's already tension in the house due to Daisha's attitude towards me.
02:18Or because you were jealous.
02:18Whatever it was.
02:19You weren't getting along.
02:20And?
02:22Okay.
02:24Swearing in the courtroom is not advised.
02:27When she repeats herself without a hint of shame,
02:30the judge knows all she needs to know about these two.
02:33What did you say?
02:34I said bye.
02:36Case is dismissed.
02:37We're done.
02:37The only one who calls BS in Judge Judy's courtroom is Judge Judy.
02:42Number 8.
02:43Wet cereal on her clothes.
02:45Servers at the same restaurant moved in together.
02:47And Miss Morgan worked at the same place.
02:49She offered you to come to stay with her, and you would split the rent.
02:52But the two started having arguments about cable costs,
02:55and plaintiff Paige Morgan's boyfriend living there without paying his share.
02:59When the judge directly asks him where he lives,
03:02Morgan's partner stutters and stammers into an answer.
03:04What's your permanent address?
03:06I'm sorry, ma'am?
03:07Your permanent address.
03:09It's, uh, in Douglasville, Georgia.
03:11One road over from her.
03:12Although she is the one being sued,
03:14the defendant's countersuit over the plaintiff breaking open her bedroom door
03:17and pouring wet cereal on her property rings true.
03:20Your clothes were spread out, and...
03:22All over the floor, and there was cereal, wet cereal dumped all over my clothes.
03:26Morgan does get her rent money because of a lack of evidence,
03:29but she and her significant other don't come off too well in the end.
03:32Number 7.
03:33Stop interrupting.
03:34Laken Pickrell sues her former roommates after being unfairly forced out of her apartment.
03:39She was thrown out, and a false restraining order was issued against her.
03:43Uncross your arms.
03:44It didn't work out in an almost unseemly way.
03:48But defendant's Francesca Ortega and her boyfriend, Martin Torres,
03:52can't get their story straight.
03:53Ortega's body language actually offends the judge immediately.
03:57Her constant interrupting and shady logic buries her credibility even further.
04:02But the next day, she came back to the residence on the 28th.
04:07Stop! No, no, no, no, no! Sit!
04:09Once Torres is left to his own devices and can't tell the story she wants him to tell,
04:13Ortega tries to insert herself into the proceedings multiple times.
04:17She actually gets kicked out eventually.
04:20Put her out.
04:20Explain her story for two minutes because I feel like you're manipulating.
04:23Out!
04:24Their behavior in the courtroom does more for Pickrell's case than even the evidence does.
04:29Number 6.
04:30A relationship inflames.
04:32These two were together for nearly a decade,
04:34but this case is more about who owns a shared property.
04:38You purchased a house.
04:39Yes, ma'am.
04:40And the house was purchased with all of your money.
04:43Correct.
04:44And the mortgage on the house is in your name.
04:46Correct.
04:47Jesse Williams Jr. and Michelle Emmerich level
04:50all sorts of allegations once they get in front of the cameras.
04:52He's lying again.
04:54Just a second.
04:54Did you file an order of protection against him?
04:56After the fact, he threatened when I caught my daughter in the bedroom behind the door,
05:00when I put laundry in the washer that was downstairs where his room is.
05:04The thing is, Judge Scheindlin isn't interested in petty and melodramatic squabbles.
05:08She also isn't interested in their using orders of protection
05:12to try getting each other thrown out of their shared house.
05:14Whose house is this?
05:15It's both of ours.
05:17Well, unfortunately, you are correct.
05:20That would be your fault.
05:21Yes, ma'am.
05:22I understand this.
05:23Emmerich's belligerence even gets her removed from the court.
05:26Your case is dismissed.
05:27Get out.
05:28Your counterclaim is dismissed.
05:30Get out.
05:30Unfortunately, Judge Judy can't undo their bad decisions.
05:34And has to send the plaintiff out without a satisfying resolution.
05:38Number five.
05:38You're a fibber.
05:40Right away, this case begins with a lie.
05:42You and your two children moved in with him.
05:44What was the rent?
05:45500 a month.
05:46When did you move in?
05:47July.
05:47When did you move out?
05:48July 15th.
05:49The defendant attests she didn't even live in the apartment she shared with the plaintiff
05:53for most of the time he says she did.
05:55So the judge has to do what she does best and scare the truth out of her.
05:59If I may, when I did leave Washington State, I moved in with my mother.
06:04You're a fibber.
06:05I'm a what?
06:06Fibber.
06:07Scheindlin starts pressing her about where she was living during the unaccounted months.
06:10And her shaky story starts to crumble.
06:13I'm asking you, if you were still at the same job, where were you living?
06:18You weren't living with your mother.
06:20Because your mother lives in Tampa.
06:22You lived in Orlando.
06:23You keep saying I lived in Orlando and I worked in Orlando.
06:26I'm telling you I did not.
06:27She doesn't even have the good sense to panic either.
06:30Instead, she becomes smug with the judge and just smirks as she happily contradicts
06:35her own answer to the complaint.
06:36Number 4.
06:37So egregious.
06:39Denise Silva moved into Charlotte Caron's condo, paying some rent in advance.
06:43How much money did she give you?
06:44I think it was $1,000.
06:46How much money did you give her for January?
06:48On December 1st, I gave her another check for $950.
06:52But Caron had Silva removed via restraining order and kept the money for the time she
06:57didn't or legally couldn't stay.
06:59Caron seems okay at the start, but as she gets going, she makes some strange statements
07:05that give us a window into what it might be like to share a place with her.
07:08She lived there for seven weeks.
07:09She paid you for more than seven weeks.
07:11You had her removed from the house.
07:13You're going to tell me why in a second.
07:15But she didn't live there, so you have to give her back money.
07:18Do you understand?
07:19I understand that my time is certainly worth a lot.
07:22Once she actually explains why she filed a restraining order,
07:25the judge isn't just unconvinced, she's offended.
07:29Behavior, her conduct with utilizing the courts in an inappropriate,
07:34an unfair way, is so egregious.
07:36Judge Judy thinks it's such an egregious overreach and misuse of the law that she
07:41awards Silva the small claims general maximum of $5,000.
07:453. The law doesn't give a
07:47It's rare to hear Judge Judy swear.
07:50She's someone who holds courtroom decorum in high esteem.
07:53But defendant Joshua Sumrow pushes the limit of her patience.
07:56I returned $250 of his security deposit back.
08:00Why?
08:01I withheld $100 for outstanding bills from the months that he had lived there.
08:05I've never seen a dollar.
08:05Just a second.
08:06Sorry.
08:07What bills?
08:08Sumrow kept part of the security deposit from his co-worker and roommate, withholding the
08:12money as he saw fit.
08:13However, things escalated months later when the plaintiff sued him.
08:17In response, Sumrow filed a protective order that would have gotten the plaintiff essentially
08:21barred from their shared job.
08:23The day after I was served with a small claims case,
08:25it was in my belief that he was going to continue to harass me while I was at work.
08:29It's such a clear and inappropriate abuse of the system that the judge
08:33roasts him with the fire of a thousand suns.
08:36The law doesn't give a rat's ass how you feel.
08:392. Boiling water attack
08:41In one of the saddest, most outrageous cases heard on the show, plaintiff Kylie Jones accuses
08:47defendant Octavia Camby of pouring a pot of boiling water on her while she slept.
08:51Do you have a police report?
08:53Yes, I do.
08:53I'd like to take a look at it.
08:55Camby, of course, asserts she didn't attack her roommate.
08:58It comes out through the police and medical records that substance use on the night in
09:02question made Jones an unreliable witness to her own attack.
09:05That's what you told the doctor.
09:07No, that's not what I told the doctor.
09:08So you mean the police officer got it wrong and the doctor who
09:12admitted you to the hospital got it wrong?
09:14Judge Judy is uncharacteristically empathetic towards the end of the case.
09:17She believes Jones' story.
09:19She just couldn't advocate for herself in her impaired state.
09:22But part of the reason they didn't take you seriously is because you were your own worst
09:26enemy. Well, that's it.
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09:451. Tupperware Lady
09:47Karina Roy is a legend to any Judge Judy fan.
09:51The eponymous Tupperware Lady is on her own wavelength throughout this case.
09:55Just get to the point.
09:56So I said, look, if I don't get my Tupperware back, I'll just take it off my rent.
09:59And she said, well, don't you dare! And she threw her blankets off her, which every morning...
10:05Just a second. Are you telling me you went into her bedroom?
10:07Yes.
10:08Her testimony concerning an argument with her ex-roommate over food storage receptacles
10:12is a stunning tour de force. She recreates the moment the defendant allegedly perpetrated a
10:17vicious Tupperware attack like she's going for an Emmy.
10:20And she ran to the door and slammed it open. She said, I ate it! And she stormed into the kitchen.
10:25It almost makes us forget she's talking about plastic food containers.
10:29Scheindlin's patience is kind of astounding here.
10:31Let me explain something to you. Don't get dramatic with me.
10:34This eccentric plaintiff would probably be thrown out of the courtroom today.
10:39Then again, Judge Judy didn't get this far by not knowing what good TV looks like.
10:43What's she saying?
10:44The babies. The babies.
10:48Hey!
10:49Which of these cases had you reliving your worst roommate situation? Tell us in the comments.
10:54And she sell drugs.
10:56Oh, wow.
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