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Judge Faith Makes Lemonade Out of Lemons · Yo Gavel Gavel! - Court TV Commentary

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This week on your gabble gabble.
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  Speaker 3: If you sell someone a car that almost instantly kills them,
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  Speaker 3: or you to blame.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Faith determines who the lemon.
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  Speaker 3: Is and if a fork left hurts your heel, are
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  Speaker 3: you entitled to a boatload of money?
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  Speaker 1: Or is Judge Gino turning heel? Real people? Faith Justice?
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  Speaker 2: This is Joe Gabble. Wow, man, can I tell you this?
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  Speaker 2: What good is that? Wins?
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  Speaker 3: I wish I had said Judge Faith makes lemonade out
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  Speaker 3: of limits.
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  Speaker 1: That's good too.
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  Speaker 3: The car you see that would have been bad what
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  Speaker 3: I did. This is why we need to prep long
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  Speaker 3: Judge Faith, Judge Faith. I love Judge Faith. I almost
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  Speaker 3: went to Judge You want to tell anybody that judge
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  Speaker 3: just their first episode what to do?
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  Speaker 1: Here?
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  Speaker 2: Is that just for the last.
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  Speaker 1: One I could tell people, Yeah, this is your first time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell Dana Case of of TV Courtroom show
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  Speaker 1: that he has not seen. He's gonna try to figure
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  Speaker 1: out the verdict and then we're gonna do the exact
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  Speaker 1: same thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly I'm.
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  Speaker 1: In Judge Gino, which is personal injury courts, and we
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  Speaker 1: are talking a sum of money I've never seen on
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  Speaker 1: television before. H and Dan, you're going to judge faith,
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  Speaker 1: which is your standard standard situation sanduation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go first because I'm excited about this. Judge.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to give you the time. It is, okay,
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  Speaker 3: so let me go ahead and go first. Here, Carlton
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  Speaker 3: Henry is suing for thirty five hundred dollars of a
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  Speaker 3: car that he bought how much thirty five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 3: from Donald Gyram. Donald Gyram sold him the car, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's suing him for.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty five hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 3: So Carlton in twenty eighteen purchased a two thousand and
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  Speaker 3: nine Chevy Aveou from Dot Chevy.
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  Speaker 1: Chevy get gyrammed into Benson.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to it. That's really nicely does the too? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Donald Jyram says, this was my personal vehicle that I
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  Speaker 3: used to take my kids to school and go to
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  Speaker 3: work every day. I'm a regular person too, just like
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  Speaker 3: everyone And he says it just like that. He's He's like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a regular person too, just like everyone else. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: He's wants to make it clear you think he's a
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  Speaker 3: regular person. He is much older. Carlton is a young man.
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  Speaker 3: He's probably twenty. Carlton's like, I'm a regular person too,
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  Speaker 3: that almost lost his life. And Donald says, WHOA slow
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  Speaker 3: your role there, buddy, Wow, Just like that, fantastic Faith
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  Speaker 3: gabbles and calms everybody down. Tensions are heated. So Carlton
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  Speaker 3: says he saw an ad on Craigslist. He has the
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  Speaker 3: ad with him in court. He says, I want to
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  Speaker 3: be clear, this ad never specifically mentions as is in
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  Speaker 3: its description. It says it's in good condition. We have
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  Speaker 3: texts and email chain back and forth. Says the car
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  Speaker 3: is in good condition. Nowhere does it say as is.
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  Speaker 3: Faith says, I think you're trying to reemptively get out
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  Speaker 3: in front of this because you know that his argument
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  Speaker 3: is going to be the car is as is?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? And she says yes.
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  Speaker 3: He says yes, ma'am okay, and Faith says, but isn't
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  Speaker 3: that the default with car sales that are used cars?
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  Speaker 3: He says yeah, but he never he never said it.
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  Speaker 3: So the ads for forty two hundred. He buys it
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  Speaker 3: for thirty five hundred. Donald says, I bought this car
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  Speaker 3: because I need a reliable car to drive me to Flagstaff, Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're in Phoenix. I could be wrong. Why
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't I make and then uh, oh no, I'm sorry. Not,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Carlton scratched that flag. Hold on, everyone, scratch out from
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  Speaker 3: the record Bachshrad made read it back to me. Donald says, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I bought this car because I need a reliable car.
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  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't I make sure the car that I'm driving
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  Speaker 3: my kids in is in good condition. I would never
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  Speaker 3: knowingly sell a bad car to someone. And Faith, So
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  Speaker 3: at this point, pretty cut and dry. Right here comes
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  Speaker 3: the twist. Faith says, so you bought the car new.
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  Speaker 3: He says, no, I bought it this year. So this
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  Speaker 3: is a car and sold almost immediately after buying it.
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  Speaker 3: So then we find out that he's also a mechanic.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, he said I bought the car.
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  Speaker 3: It was broken and I bought it to fix up
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  Speaker 3: because that's what I do. And I thought he said
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  Speaker 3: that he drives his car. We don't get into this.
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  Speaker 3: Faith references this. He does not have a response to this.
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  Speaker 1: Whether or not he actually used his car on a
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  Speaker 1: daily basis.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't have a response. He is set on the record
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  Speaker 3: that he does. But he also bought it this year
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  Speaker 3: and sold it this year. Boy, So Faith says, did
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  Speaker 3: you have the car checked out by a professional before
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  Speaker 3: you purchased it? He said, the guy is a mechanic.
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  Speaker 3: I bought it from his shop. That was enough for me.
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  Speaker 3: He seemed like a nice man. He's a mechanic selling
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  Speaker 3: a car. He was willing to go down from forty
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  Speaker 3: two hundred to thirty five hundred, and so I trusted him.
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  Speaker 1: Do we know how much Donald Donald is not the car?
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  Speaker 2: For No, we do. Originally we don't.
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  Speaker 3: He and faces you didn't have another mechanic check it out.
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  Speaker 3: Carlton says, no, I didn't. Uh, she says, so what happened?
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  Speaker 2: He goes.
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  Speaker 3: I leave from there. Literally, I'm on my way to Flagstaff, Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: An hour after I bought the car. My car, the
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  Speaker 3: driver's side hits the rumble. He calls him a rumble stripe.
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  Speaker 3: We found out it was rumble strips from from a
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  Speaker 3: bry My car hits the rumble stripe. When it hits it,
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  Speaker 3: it immediately goes flying in the air like the car
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  Speaker 3: goes the car, the tire blows out, it goes tumbling over.
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  Speaker 3: It flips three times. I blacked out. Someone called nine
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  Speaker 3: to one one who saw the car and that saw
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  Speaker 3: the accident happen. I crawled as when I come to,
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  Speaker 3: I crawl out of the car, and witnesses say, I'm
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  Speaker 3: lucky to be alive.
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  Speaker 1: So he hits the rumble strip. The tire immediately bursts boom.
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  Speaker 2: And it just starts. The car got of air.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there's photos from the accident. Holy cow, it's brutal.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how he got out of the car.
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  Speaker 3: It's absolutely had a concussion, had two partially collapsed lungs.
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  Speaker 3: I am not in any way, shape or form suing
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  Speaker 3: this guy for any medical damage. I just the car
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  Speaker 3: was defective. And she said, how do we know the
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  Speaker 3: car was defective? That isn't good enough. And he says
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  Speaker 3: I took it to someone after the incident and a
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  Speaker 3: different mechanic.
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  Speaker 2: A third party says.
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  Speaker 3: That there was a faulty valves, that it could have
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  Speaker 3: been a faulty valve stilm on the tire could have
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  Speaker 3: done it.
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  Speaker 2: A faulty valve stim on the tire. Now, Donald's like.
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  Speaker 3: This is after the accident happened, your honor, I just
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  Speaker 3: want that on the record, and she's like, it's on
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  Speaker 3: the record. Were you aware of an issue with the tire,
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  Speaker 3: That's what he asked, Donald Jimar. Donald Jaymar says, your honor,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't aware. I drove this car every day with
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  Speaker 3: my kids. Judge Faith does not bring up again the
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  Speaker 3: fact that he just bought the car this year and
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  Speaker 3: sold it this year, and when he bought it it
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  Speaker 3: was inoperable.
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  Speaker 2: She does not even bring that up again. She just says, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready to rule.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's short. Correct, He's not getting any money. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: you bought a car, you started to drift off the road,
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  Speaker 1: hit the rumble strip. Now granted a rumble strip shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: cause you to flip all of all like that, but
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  Speaker 1: the tire tires, tires do things like that. Happens like
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  Speaker 1: a tire. Ah, I don't know. That's not a mechanical issue.
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  Speaker 1: In my mind, that is a tire potentially hitting all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of things that can be on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road, including in the rumble strip. Unfortunately, don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna get any money.
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  Speaker 3: So this is one of those cases where there's a
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  Speaker 3: secret law that changes everything.
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  Speaker 1: A secret law, and so.
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  Speaker 3: Judge faith says, So the thing about buying a car
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  Speaker 3: as is is that you buy it as is. Every
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  Speaker 3: used car sale, unless otherwise stated, is as is. There's
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  Speaker 3: nothing you can do about that. However, you in the
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  Speaker 3: state of Arizona. In the state of Arizona, there's something
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  Speaker 3: called an implied warranty of merchant ability, which means when
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  Speaker 3: you sell a car in Arizona, it applies directly to
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  Speaker 3: the safety and only the safety of a car, meaning
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  Speaker 3: that as is includes the safety of operating that vehicle
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  Speaker 3: unless otherwise stated, for fifteen days after the purchase of
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  Speaker 3: the vehicle. Wow, that is a law in Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: So if anything happens to the vehicle that could be
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  Speaker 1: traced to safe, could be safety.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't have it for an hour. We have evidence
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  Speaker 3: that suggests the car may have not been unsafe. That
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  Speaker 3: is enough for me to rule in favor of Carlton.
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  Speaker 3: This law supersedes and as is sell. He's getting every
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  Speaker 3: penny thirty five hundred dollars. Now, if you see these
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  Speaker 3: two people in the courtroom, you know why she does it.
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  Speaker 3: It's because it's clear this dude's a snake. It's clear
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  Speaker 3: that he is trying to turn profit on Lemon cars,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why she I.
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  Speaker 1: Think my only problem with this isn't that it just
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  Speaker 1: happened out of the blue. It happened with going off
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  Speaker 1: the road a little bit. That's right, when he got
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  Speaker 1: out through road. That's all sorts of if the laws
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  Speaker 1: in her favor or not.
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  Speaker 3: But she does doesn't because this guy clearly took advantage
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  Speaker 3: of this kid.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was clear as day that he did.
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  Speaker 1: Fair. Let's go to Judge Geno, to Judge g.
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  Speaker 3: Donna Wilson, Donald Wilson, Donna Dona Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: Is suing four. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: It's not shatman.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Suing four, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in past medical expensive
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  Speaker 1: got it. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars for future medical.
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  Speaker 2: Expension, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Two million dollars for scarring and disfigurements, oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: And two point seven million dollars for pain and suffering.
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  Speaker 1: Total of five point one million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. How is scarring in this memberment different than pain
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  Speaker 2: and suffering?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm here for Donna Wilson. Who is she suing?
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  Speaker 1: Donna Wilson is suing uh, Henry Henry Henry Atkins, Henry
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  Speaker 1: Henry Atkins. Donna Wilson Uh started working at a shipping warehouse.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and a few months later she gets promoted to
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  Speaker 1: the supervising manager position. So she is supervising the shipping warehouse.
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  Speaker 2: Got it? It's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Gino says women are changing the world, and.
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  Speaker 3: The craft goes I've never seen someone more behind on
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  Speaker 3: things that thinks he's ahead of them than Gina.
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  Speaker 2: Women are changing the world.
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  Speaker 1: Crowd loves it.
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  Speaker 3: Though Henry woman could be supervisor of a shipping room
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  Speaker 3: Unbelievablet's get into the legal song.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I will say she does bade him into that.
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  Speaker 1: She says, I was promoted to a supervisor position and
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  Speaker 1: a male dominated works. Okay, so it didn't come out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere, but women are changing the world. Henry Atkins
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  Speaker 1: is a truck driver. His company works for fifty different companies,
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  Speaker 1: so he provides shipping for fifty different companies, including the
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  Speaker 1: company that Donna works for. Donna explains that one afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: she goes back to the shipping room because everyone is
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  Speaker 1: on break Okay. She typically doesn't spend a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time in the shipping warehouse, so she has an office,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. But today, as she sends everybody to lunch,
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  Speaker 1: and she goes to check on a few things to
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  Speaker 1: make sure. I'm not entirely sure, I'm assuming she just says,
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  Speaker 1: to make things sure things are ready. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: She's checking boxes, see that things are where they're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be. Henry says, why would you send everybody lunch
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. Nothing gets done. I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the way she wants to do things. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know to tell you. So Donna's in the warehouse,
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  Speaker 1: she's checking on stuff. She looks at a few boxes,
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  Speaker 1: and she says, she starts to step back to get
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  Speaker 1: a bigger view of things, and she suddenly feels something
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  Speaker 1: clip her heel and she has extreme pain. She falls down.
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  Speaker 1: She says that Henry was driving a forklift, didn't see her,
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  Speaker 1: clips her heel. She falls to the ground. Okay, Henry says,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see her, but I felt that I hit something,
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  Speaker 1: so I stopped. I hear her screaming.
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  Speaker 2: So the guy in charge of the company was driving
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  Speaker 2: a forklift.
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  Speaker 1: The guy who drives the truck. Now it is his
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  Speaker 1: family business, but he is yes, we'll get to it.
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  Speaker 1: Ok So he stops. She's on the ground, she blacks out,
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  Speaker 1: she wakes up, she's in the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Henry says that this is a company that he's been
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  Speaker 1: working in relation with for four years now, and he
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  Speaker 1: had a load in his truck to drop off. So
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  Speaker 1: I show up and typically somebody is there to use
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  Speaker 1: their forklift to the truck. On this day, everybody's at lunch.
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  Speaker 1: So I decide I'm going to do it myself.
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  Speaker 2: Got it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a certified forklift driver, so I can do this now.
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  Speaker 1: Donna says policy is in place that says that he's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to wait for somebody on staff at our facility
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  Speaker 1: to unloaders. He's supposed to bring me the paperwork. I
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  Speaker 1: sign off that he brought the things that he's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to bring, and that is all that he is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do. Instead, today he got on a forklift and
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  Speaker 1: decide that he's going to do whatever you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: He explains that previous management told him that he could
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  Speaker 1: operate the forklift if he wants to. He knew the policy,
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  Speaker 1: but the previous management said he can go against the policy,
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  Speaker 1: and Donna says that that is the reason why this
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  Speaker 1: old management was fired in the first place. Wasn't following
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  Speaker 1: the policy I was put in place because safety is
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  Speaker 1: my number one priority, so all that I care about.
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  Speaker 1: So Donna explains that there is about a this much
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  Speaker 1: hole in her ankle. It's about three ashnches.
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  Speaker 2: This is the only part of her body that's hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Just hold on. So she explains that they had to
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  Speaker 1: take muscle out of her thigh to put in her
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  Speaker 1: heel to help balance. Never going to be the same,
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  Speaker 1: She's always going to have a limp. She'll never be
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  Speaker 1: able to wear heels again. My husband is sick. I'm
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  Speaker 1: the breadwinner of my family and this has severely impacted
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  Speaker 1: my life and will continue to severely impact my life. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Gino brings in a doctor as as he laism. The
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  Speaker 1: doctor does I saw plasma in the doctor they were
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  Speaker 1: fantastic as uh. He explains that basically the forklift took
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  Speaker 1: her heel off.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: There are multiple surgeries to fight against the infection, to
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  Speaker 1: try to help heal the heel, and sometimes this ultimately
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  Speaker 1: leads to amputating below the knee because you can't heal
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  Speaker 1: it now. In this case, the doctor luckily was able
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  Speaker 1: to do enough to where right now that's not necessary
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  Speaker 1: but the future good to Donna explains that she needs
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  Speaker 1: a scooter everywhere that she goes. We do get a
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  Speaker 1: picture Dan of not her exact heel, but of a
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  Speaker 1: of a illustration of what her heel looked like. And
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  Speaker 1: I am going to show this to you now. Oh my,
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  Speaker 1: that's her heel.
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  Speaker 3: That's that. That's her heel. Aeron, that's her heel. You
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  Speaker 3: can't see it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not good.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, her foot is almost cut in half essentially, so
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  Speaker 3: there's lots of surgeries that have already happened.
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  Speaker 2: Medical past.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly right. She has to use a scooter now
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  Speaker 1: everywhere that she goes.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Gino asked to see her on her scooter. Henry rolls
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  Speaker 1: his eyes. Can't believe that she's just going to be
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  Speaker 1: riding around in the court room on the scooter to
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  Speaker 1: just prove what it's like. And Gino says, I see
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  Speaker 1: that you're wearing a boot. Can you wear shoes? And
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  Speaker 1: she says no, And I'm not sure that I ever
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  Speaker 1: will be able to. Now the doctor is still there
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  Speaker 1: and explains that it takes about a year before you
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  Speaker 1: can start to put weight on that foot. The scooter
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  Speaker 1: may be a lifetime accessory that she's gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: wear or used to get around, and that she that
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  Speaker 1: she'll never like. It's basically always gonna be with Here's
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  Speaker 1: always gonna be a limp. She's never gonna be able
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  Speaker 1: to wear normal shoes again.
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  Speaker 3: So best case scenario, she limps the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 3: Worst case scooter or take her leg off below me.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he says, you're never gonna be wearing normal shoes again,
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  Speaker 1: to which Henry says, maybe she could wear flats or something. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: what is this guy trying to do? Is he trying money?
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  Speaker 1: Henry's annoyed. Henry's annoyed, and we'll get to why he's
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  Speaker 1: annoyed here in a minute. Gino bangs the gavel, says,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to be so insensitive you cause this injury.
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  Speaker 1: We're just trying to talk about what the injury is
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  Speaker 1: right now. Uh Gino says, our society puts a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pressure that a woman has to be perfect in
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  Speaker 1: the workplace and she has to look perfect, and I am,
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  Speaker 1: You're still beautiful. But I imagine that this is taking
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  Speaker 1: a toll on you, knowing that you know that this
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  Speaker 1: happened to you. And she says, she explains that she's
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: in therapy. There's disfigurement, there's scarring that's never gonna go away. Now,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Gino points out, you know you have the past medical expense.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: You have one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for future
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: medical expense. He asked a doctor, is that a reasonable
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: number to be asking for? And he says, it is
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: it reasonable? And now, listen, she's not out of the woods.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: She likely has more surgeries ahead. And oftentimes with an
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: injury like this, a patient will seem to be doing
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: well and then a few years down the road, things
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: will deteriorate and we up having to do a below
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: knee amputation.
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  Speaker 2: So why is she only asking for one hundred and
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: fifty thousand in future.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Medical Because that's how much it's that's a reasonable amount.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Man, I feel like it should be more than.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: That, okay, Henry says. Henry says, if they're professionals, they
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: should be able to save it.
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  Speaker 3: God, I like I man, I'm trying to like Henry
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: here and it's just not working.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Gino says, Oh, so you're a doctor. He says, no,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: but they're professionals.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: It's what they do. They should be able to save it.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Gino says, Henry, I know you're passionate about your job
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: and that you try to do a good job, but
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: you need to stay in your lane.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: You're not a doctor.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Henry explains, I'm not saying that this isn't my fault.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I'm saying that when it comes to doing my job,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I did everything correct. What she was in the wrong
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: place at the wrong time. She works in a factory.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: She sent all of her employees to work. She was
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: walking backwards in a danger zone. We go over to
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the plasma and there is a map of this facility
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: and the walkway. You know, there's racks and racks of boxes,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and the walkway has you know, the caution stripe on
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: either side to show you that if you're walking in
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: this area, you need to be aware of your surrounding
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: because there's gonna be things going across or down it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: This is called the danger zone of a shipping warehouse.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: But she wasn't walking backwards down there.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: She was on an aisle and step back into the
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: oncoming like it was perpendicular.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: So according to the map here we see her and
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: she is she's backed up, and then she's backing this
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: way down, straight down, zone down, and I'm not entirely
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: sure she's all. The question also is so he's basically
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: like she was in the danger zone. She sent everybody away.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: You need to be aware of your surroundings, especially if
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: you're in the danger zone. Uh. Gino asked her if
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: this is correct, and she says, yes, I was walking
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: backwards in the danger zone, but the zone was clear
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: at the time. Now, Gino says this, there's one thing
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I know about Forkliss. I don't know much, but it's
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that they're loud, and she says, yes, I was wearing
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: safety earphones at the time because it's loud in the factory. Gino,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: she brings the ears phones and he puts them on
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and he's like, okay, I can see how you would
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: not be able to hear that. Henry points out that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: everybody was at lunch. Why are you wearing the headphones
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: while everybody's gone, nobody's doing work. It's not loud in there,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and she didn't have an answer for that, and Gino
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: is ready to rule.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: So here's my issue is that that those are good points.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: But Henry is operating in a forklift in a building
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: he doesn't work in for a company he only works
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: for through contract work and is not by policy allowed
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: to do that.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: So he's certified, but he is.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: At least fifty one percent at fault. He has to be.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: He's operating forklift where he doesn't have permission to operate
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: a forklift. But she's not completely at fault because of
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: everything else, the headphones, the danger zone, the walking backwards.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Here's what I think. I think.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I think she's gonna get all the money for past
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: uh and future medical that's four hundred thousand dollars. Of
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: the other four point six million dollars, I'm gonna give
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: her one point one million. I'm gonna go one point
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: one million for the pain and suffering, none for the
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: starring indismemberment, and I'm gonna go one.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Point five out of the door. That's what I'm going with.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: So Gino says to uh to, to what's her name, Donna, Donna, Donna,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you can't be in the danger zone. Even if everybody
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: is at lunch. You can't be in the danger zone.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: But Henry, you came into a facility and you didn't
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: follow the policy. The policy trumps everything else. You are
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: one hundred fault. Awards her five million dollars.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: No, No, that's unbelievable.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I can't I don't know if I agree with judge
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Gino million dollars. This seems she's in the dangers. It
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: seems like he's just mad at Henry. I feel like
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: sometimes his judgments are like who he likes more. She
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: was in the date with headphones on. But I can
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: understand the frustration.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: For the reason why Henry was being a dankle is
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: because he's frustrated because she's doing all this stuff, getting
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: all this sympathy, when ultimately she was the one walking
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: backwards in a danger absolutely gotten.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: What would you give her? I would I would I.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Would have gone in your Yeah, similar, And it's just normal.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Gino gets us again.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable that man awarded five point one million dollars
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: with the swing of a gavel.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Just like that five point one gone Gino does it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I honestly don't even know how that works, because, like
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you know what we know about short the show. So
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: this network, that's five point one million dollars down on
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the hook for I guarantee you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: They have a budget for the year and they just
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: have to come under it.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: So he has to be the most expensive courtroom. Yeah,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that's probably why they don't do it. They do that
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: show anymore. I don't know who knows that's expensive. That's
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: an expensive afternoon episodes and episodes call. So we had
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: a five thousand dollars cap on these other shows, and
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: he's swinging around five point one million dollars.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Maybe they do have to pay it. I don't know.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: That's how you would that's crazy. Yeah, that's Christian insurance
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: companies involvedople.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: We'll try to find out. Yeah, I can hurt you,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you can hurt me.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: That will figure it out.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: There's millions we did.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Everybody.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Congratulations.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Another gavel is in the book the books, and we
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: are going to be back next time with another one.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Until then, all rise.
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• 24:14
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• 24:17
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• 24:21
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