{"id":2563,"date":"2011-08-11T06:19:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T11:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2011-08-11T06:19:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T11:19:21","slug":"judge-judy-runs-a-court-of-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/2011\/08\/11\/judge-judy-runs-a-court-of-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Judy Runs a Court of Equity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a “Judge Judy” video clip<\/a> being circulated where Judge Judy is deciding a case over unpaid rent. A young woman is the plaintiff, and is seeking several months of unpaid rent from a young man who shared an apartment with her. The young man is deeply confused about the concept of government aid for the purpose of rent, and Judge Judy unsuccessfully attempts to educate him about that. He asserts that because he could have paid for a hotel with the money, that he is justified in spending the money for other purposes.<\/p>\n

But what struck me was the conclusion to the clip. The young man asks whether the plaintiff paid the rent on the apartment, and Judge Judy tells him that is an excellent question. Judge Judy then determines that the plaintiff only actually paid the rent for one month out of the several months that she is suing the defendant over. Judge Judy abruptly dismisses the case.<\/p>\n

I’d appreciate feedback from the legally-oriented folks out there. It seems to me that Judge Judy is only justified in a dismissal like that if she is running (or simulating) a court of equity, not a court of law. So far as I can figure it, a court of law would hold it irrelevant to a claim whether the plaintiff was in violation of a contract with a third party. But in a court of equity, the plaintiff must be filing a case with “clean hands”, and it is that standard which the plaintiff in this case failed to meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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