Awesome / The People's Court

• One for Curt Chaplin. Typically, the defendant and plaintiff are given time for a brief Q&A afterwards, with whoever lost going first. One rude losing defendant insulted Judge Milian's intelligence right out of the gate with a misogynistic comment, to which Chaplin dismissed him immediately.
  Defendant: I think the judge sided with her [the plaintiff] because she's a woman. I don't know what she's talking about–
  Curt Chaplin: [cutting him off and showing him the exit] Okay, you can just head on out.
• October 15, 2007: Judge Marylin's epic meltdown when a University of Miami law student dismisses her ruling as as "your opinion".
• One for Judge Marylin. She was disputing a case between a landlord and a tenant when the landlord started acting up and demanding she address him as "Dr." because he earned the right, which she quite possibly couldn't care about. Then he, in an unsubtle manner, threatened her...
  Landlord: Watch yourself, your Honor.
  Judge Milian: GET OUT OF MY COURTROOM! GET OUT! OUT! Oh no, he's not moving fast enough Douglas.
  Landlord: If Douglas touches me you will not be happy, your Honor.
  Judge Milian: If Douglas beats you to a pulp, I'll be delighted. Get Out!!
• June 19, 2019: One case featured a man who was suing a friend of his dad's over a car sale. Milian first touts the rare fact that nothing is wrong with the car itself. The case is that the defendants do not have the title to the car. The defendants give the judge multiple excuses as to why they did not have the title until they admit that it is registered in another person's name (the wife's ex, according to the plaintiff) and are just as evasive as to why they can't pay him back, citing the husband's recently-discovered heart problems and having to live in a rental house. Judge Milian is absolutely gleeful as she announces rewarding the plaintiff the $450 he paid for the car, court costs, and pre-judgment interest going back to the day the plaintiff bought the car! Even Doug chuckles when the plaintiff exits.
  • Even better, the plaintiff barely had to talk due to Milian grilling the defendants over the title and calling the plaintiff's action (parking the car sideways in their driveway) "car-ma". The fact that the defendants simply broke into the car and moved it left Milian ecstatic over not having to deduct the plaintiff for the subsequent tow (since the tow did not cause damage in the process of removing the car).
• Another one for Judge Marylin when she oversees a case involving an auto repair. The defendant, who billed the plaintiff for the repair, gives her a copy of a receipt with an AS-IS price adjustment. She compares it to a duplicate of the same exact receipt where everything's the same... except the plaintiff whited out her signature.
  Plaintiff: No I didn't white it out. I think he did on them.
  Judge Milian: Oh, yes you did, honey. I am looking at it right here, she whited it out. She whited it out, get out of my court room, and verdict for the defendant. (bangs gavel) Unbelievable, she whited it out; not even well. It’s still right there.
• May 24, 2021: A case of tenant vs. landlord featured the plaintiffs suing a landlord they are sharing a house with. They are asking for the return of rent they had paid to her under the mistaken belief that they were due remuneration because she made an error in when they were supposed to pay their rent. This is in addition to an electric bill that was generated a month after the landlord moved out of the home, claiming that part of that bill was past due. Although Milian was critical of the defendant for not following the usual practices of moving in tenants (mainly not asking for first and last months' rent before move-in), her disgust fell upon the plaintiffs for suing for their rent back as well as an electric bill they could not provide evidence of. Such is her disgust that she does not even give her customary sign-off "Good luck, folks".
  Judge Milian: "So, Miss Jessmer and Mister Evans, on your lawsuit against Miss White, (to the defendant) no good deed goes unpunished, pal. Miss White, you need to assume, unfortunately, in this world, that complete strangers have their own agenda in mind. Okay? (to the plaintiffs) Here's a big fat surprise: I'm ruling in favor of the defendant." (bangs gavel once, then drops it and walks away)
• Circa 2003: The plaintiff brought the defendant to court for damaging her property during a move and for additional damage caused when the plaintiff's possessions were stored haphazardly in the defendant's garage, instead of in a controlled environment. Initially the plaintiff came to court with no evidence at all, claiming the defendant had not allowed her into the garage so she could gather evidence, and began screaming back when Judge Milian told her she couldn't hear the case without evidence. Despite the plaintiff's lack of decorum, Judge Milian, instead of dismissing the case outright, dismissed the case without prejudice and told the plaintiff to come back when she had evidence. The plaintiff did so, but then was busted by the judge for faking said evidence: she tried to pass off two different pictures of the same brass flowerpot as two different flowerpots. After roasting the plaintiff for staging her case, she awarded the plaintiff only a tiny fraction of what she'd sued for, making it clear the plaintiff had zero credibility due to the faked evidence and would have gotten nothing if the defendant hadn't done the wrong thing by storing the property in her garage. The defendant's frivolous counterclaim - for storage fees for storing the property in her garage, and for the costs of moving the property from the garage to a legitimate storage unit - was, unsurprisingly, dismissed in its entirety, and the defendant was ejected from court for talking - or more accurately, yelling - over the judge during her ruling. The plaintiff, meanwhile, was so upset that she angrily stormed out without even talking to Curt Chaplin.
• 2017: A woman is suing her son's girlfriend for rent and babysitting, among other things. Judge Milian points out two or three different times that, while the girlfriend may have made agreements to pay her, her son seems to just stand idly by (on the defendent's side) and let things happen when he could be just as liable for these cost. The woman does not dispute it but seems to simply ignore the logic in favor of her targeting the girlfriend and mother of one of her grandchildren. In the end, Judge Milian rules in favor of the plaintiff for around $4000 (part of the rent, babysitting, and gas bill). Then she adds this to her ruling:
  Judge Milian: "I gotta tell you (the plaintiff), I hope you enjoy that money and do something fabulous with it. Because, um, pretty much everybody else has figured out that money's probably gonna cost you your grandkid."