
Many popular court shows are on TV. How can the genre improve? How about using a three-judge panel? That's the concept of "Hot Bench," created by Judge Judy Sheindlin. After hearing each case, the judges discuss it among themselves before rendering a verdict. The show's title comes from a term describing a court action in which a judge frequently interrupts lawyers with questions.
A truck sale drives two former friends into a legal ditch; one claims payments stopped, but the buyer claims the truck broke down, and he's done paying.
In a tense parking lot standoff, a woman says, a safety instructor kicked her car; he argues that he acted heroically to shield his wife and himself from the plaintiff's reckless driving!
A husband and wife claim they were unfairly evicted from a home that froze because it had no heat.
A young man's grandmother took $4,000 from his duffle bag because she believed he'd stolen it from her daughter, but he says it was his own money, which he'd planned to spend on his shoe business.