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is handle on the law marginal legal advice, where.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I tell you you have no case.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
There was a lawyer by the name of Tom Girardi,
disbarred celebrity lawyer who I ran into. Every year I
am see something called the Lawyer's Philharmonic every year. That
are lawyers and judges who are in a philharmonic. A
guy named Gary Green, also a lawyer by the way,
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is the founder and the conductor. And these are all
practicing lawyers, judges, paralegals who decided that instead of going
into music, I mean they're world class musicians, that instead
of going into music, they wanted to make a living.
So every year there is this concert and it's a
benefit concert, and I amc it every year and it's
a real highlight.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Of my year.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Tom Girardi, very famous, very high end, very rich lawyer,
was always sponsor. So I'd see him up on stage
and we sit in the back in the green room
and we would talk and boy, that's Tom Girardi. Well
it turns out that he was stealing millions upon millions
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of dollars from his clients trust accounts. He would settle
major cases and instead of giving the money to his clients,
he would just keep it and spend it chartering private jets.
His wife was one of the women on the house
of Beverly Hills, and it was he funded this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
In any case, he was sort of suffered.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
From some kind of dementia, and so his argument when
he was arrested he couldn't be tried because he didn't
have the capacity to defend himself.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That's one of the requirements of a trial.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, a judge later held that he does have the
capacity to understand what he's doing, and that's one of
the requirements. And he went ahead and went to trial
and was convicted. And the people he ripped off I'm
talking about people that were so vulnerable who trusted him.
It's not just business stealings. I mean these were people
who needed the money to pay for the wheelchairs because
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they suffered a medical malpractice or major injury, So I
mean a real slee's Well. In any case, he was
found guilty of stealing millions of dollars and at trial
usually at point the other finger augate the homework. So
his lawyers wanted to blame the thefts on the firm's
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chief financial officer, Chris karam Common, who's charged separately, and
that Girardi was a mere figurehead, had a valuable name
and had no idea what was going on. Okay, well,
jury didn't buy it in any case, down he went
and is that an unusual Yeah. The problem with lawyers
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they have such immense power. And I'm not talking as
societally speaking. I'm talking about they're the ones that settle.
They're the ones that get the money. You have a
lawyer settles a major case, the lawyer gets the money
and then divvy's it up, and so that leaves a
lot of room for vulnerability and a lot of.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Room for screwing people.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Frankly, all right, phone calls here we go. Is that
Lecai or lacai? What syllable is that lakai? Do I
have that right?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We just lose la Kai. Now go figure David, Hello, David, welcome,
But yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Okay, my son was involved with an assault and I
involved the mother and boyfriend. And this was the first
day before they were going off to school the next
day and she calls me and she wants me to
come pick him up, and I am screaming in the background,
talk about being choked. At this point it's ten o'clock.
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I just said, you know, put him in his room
and have him go to bed. Well, she's got a
rental house and she's got property, and she actually had
the boys in a fifth wheel trailer, you know, stay
in the night. The first night before school. Well, I
let her go and she called the cops, and the
police officer called me, said, hey, there's a mutual fight
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between my eleven year old, sixty three pound kid into adults,
basically how he put it. And then he told me that,
you know, he's an eleven year old kid and he
doesn't have an eleven year old mind, which kind of
really upset me. But he brings him out hits about
eleven forty five, and I put him in bed. I said,
let's just go to bed. He got school the next day.
They took one kid out of the domestic situation but
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left my other son. You know, that was my first
problem with it. So the next day I get up
and I noticed there's bruising on his right side of
his face to his ear. He's got cut underneath of
his eye, good scratch underneath of his right ear. And
I basically I take him to school, and I'm just
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I mean, I'm deciding myself. So I'm trying to think,
you know, what do I do do I file an
order of protection and that's what I decided to do.
I take him, I brought this school, pick him up,
take him to in front of a judge, because I
knew if I would have went, they probably would have
gotten this face. Get them from the judge. He looked
his face. Did you mon did this to year? He's like, yes,
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So this is this is a a Tuesday, first day
of school. Wednesday goes by. I don't hear anything Thursday
or Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I go back to the courthouse.
I'm like, hey, I submitted these photos to you. I
want to file charges against these people. I haven't heard anything.
I haven't heard anything from DCNFS, no, no services available
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to my son, victims wise, and you know, I'm just
wondering what's going on. They've been giving me numbers to
the State Attorney's office. I've been calling this number, calling them,
and we've been leaving.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
All right, got it?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So David, what's your question? So they're not going to
help you.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The authorities are not doing anything, and they're not going
to go in and arrest the boyfriend or the mother,
even after you've shown the kid was beaten up. Uh,
and then taken to school. I'm surprised the school didn't
call the police, right there. Uh, that's kind of it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Actually, yeah, I actually called the school after getting the
order of protection because yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I okay, all right, so what's your question.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Well, since I've involved d CFS, I'm getting all the
services myself, going through myself. I take them to the
er er confirmed, confirmed truck.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Okay, all right, what's your question? I got it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
We've established that your kid was hurt by mother, boyfriend
or both.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What is your question?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, I'm just I see a change in the pattern
of response.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Now I see by who, by your pattern?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Change in the pattern of by who the defeat Department
of Protective Services, the authorities, the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Who where's the change? The authorities? They don't want to
do anything.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And now, well, the State Attorney's office says that we
have to take it back down to the the Sriff's
department and the Sheriff's department. They you know what, they
knew that I involved the CFS, I got an er.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They decided they.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Were going to be a lot of it and let
the let the department take care of all right, what's
your question?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
What's your question.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I'm just wondering. I'm just wondering, what what I don't
you want to mess up this process. I just want
to make sure that I'm doing everything right.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, he sounds like you're doing everything right.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You contacted all the authorities, and two things are happening.
Either they are so busy that this is not a
big enough case, which doesn't seem correct, or it's fallen
through the cracks, or you have people there that don't
care enough.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
You're doing everything right, and you just have to keep on.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Pushing and pushing and pushing. And this is the squeaky Wheel.
I'm kind of surprised it went that far and no
one's been arrested yet. A kid goes into school after
a protective order and he is beat up, bruising, etc.
So yeah, you're doing everything right. Yeah, there's nothing more
you can do. Maybe kill the mother. I don't know
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fifth wheel. I didn't understand where the connection with a
fifth wheel came in.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
This is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Hi, Sue, you're up, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Hi Handle, I'm calling about a debt collector who's been
calling me about my dad's medical debt and he died
about more than two years ago, the debt collector.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
How's he still calling it? How's a debt collector call
you when he's dead?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
They're calling me because somehow, because your dad died.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Okay, I conflated.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I thought there was the debt collector that died and
still calling you, because that'd be a greatest Yeah, all right, Okay,
So the debt collector is calling you about your dad's
medical debt and your dad has been how long has
your dad been dead?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
In June twenty twenty two, Okay, a couple.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Of years ago, all right. Uh, and he wants, uh,
I guess you to pay.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Has a debt collector specifically said you're responsible?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
No, they just didn't know he died. They want me
to send it in his death certificate, and then.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They yeah, you have no duty to send in a
death certificate. Uh, you can tell the collector. Look it
up yourself. You know it's the county records. Pull it
out yourself. It's been a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You have absintely all of them.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, you have no duty. Oh no, no, you don't
just ignore them. You have a ripper in good time,
is what you do.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Unless there is an estate or a trust of which
you are the trustee or you are an executor of
the of the estate, then that's a different story. Was
there a will, was there or is there a trust?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
There was a trust and me and my stepbrother were
in charge of it. I disbursed the money from my
half the family eight months ago. Okay, still procrastinated and
did not.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Okay, Now it's that's Sue. That's a different story because
you are representing. You are the trustee of a trust
and the trust on behalf of your dad.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
If there's money in the.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Trust, ohs, medical bills, ohs money, So you have to
now deal with it.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, we didn't get to the second part. Get the
desert to.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Close the account out real fast.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, get the get the death certificate and send it
to them.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
And cause you just close out the account, my stepbrother
and not worry about it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
No, no, no, no, you don't just close out an
account because if there's money, if it's money has been
dispersed while it is due for medical bills, the trustee
or the executor has a duty to pay those medical bills.
If the debt collector just wants a death certificate, send it.
Just send it and hopefully it goes away. How big
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of a medical bills? Do you have any idea how
much money is owed?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
They won't tell me until I send it in.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Okay, go ahead and send it. Yeah, go ahead, send
it in. Just send it in and see what happens. Yeah,
you cooperate, because at this point you're not. You don't
agree to anything. You do not agree, You do not
sign nothing. If they just want a death certificate, go ahead,
send them a death certificate.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Okay, start with that, all right, that's how you start. Now.
If there isn't.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
A will or a trust and it's only the trustee
or the executor that has a duty, you don't have
a duty to parents medical bills, adult children's medical bills, sisters, brothers, uncles, ants.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You just don't.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
And debt collectors will never tell you that ever, ever, ever, ever.
All Right, David, I thought we already did that. Yeah,
I thought we already did that. Okay, yeah we did,
all right, David, nice talking to you.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
We had an account. Hello, William, welcome.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Yes, I have a neighbor who wants to put solar
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or take down a tree that's shading his roots. Okay,
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Speaker 1 (14:43):
That well, you can make him pay for it, but
you know it's your neighbor. Let's say you do trim it.
How much in the way of your view, your enjoyment
of your property? Is it going to be if you
trim the place so he can get this solar is
solar system working.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Oh, I don't care that the tree is a tree,
it's not any Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Then just you know what, here's what I would do.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You know, you have no obligation, you have no obligation.
Here's what I would do, okay. And this is not
a legal piece of advice. Is I would say, sure,
you pay for the trimming, and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And he's never going to say no to.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
That, okay.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
And then the second question is should I have him
sign a liability waiver for any workers he has on
my property?
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Sure, you know why not?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I mean it's you know, yeah, I mean you have
homeowners insurance for casual labor. But it doesn't hurt, It
doesn't hurt, it's not a liability waiver. He's just responsible
for any damages workers, cause that's all.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's a good question.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Actually I didn't even think about that, you know, all right,
you know I wouldn't have bothered. But you know you're
actually you're ahead of me on that one.
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This is handle on the law.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
You're listening to bill handle on demand from kf I
A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
This is the hat trick, Lockai. If we don't do
it this time, we've tried it twice, not your fault.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
The line didn't work well.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Then clearly God does not intend for us to connect Lokai.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Let's go for it.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yes, well, how's that pronounced? By the way, is kai?
Is it lackaye? Where's the syllables here?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Loki l akai?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Okay? And that is what a Hawaiian name, Hawaiian correct okay?
Got it?
Speaker 8 (18:00):
I had I have three discs pinching my spinal cord
where they call final synosis with mylopathy. I had surgery
May third of this year. So I didn't have balance
and I kept falling, so I had to have urgent surgery.
So I had surgery at USC. It was seven and
a half hour surgery. I have sixteen screws, a plate,
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and two rods holding my neck together, so I couldn't
lift over five pounds. They sit after the surgery on
June sixth, I tried to get into this business that
usually had to have those glass walls and the tall
glass doors. So there's a resistance opening those doors because
they don't want the doors to open on windy days. Anyway,
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I had my cane on my right hand and tried
open the door with my left hand. My knees buckled
and I fell on my back in my head. They
called nine one one. They called nine one one. Make
a long story short that you got to talk to
your surgeon. Your surgeon ordered an MRI with contrasts the
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radiologist interpretation of the The MRI said, there is forget
the medical name as softening of the spinal cord that
was not there on previously.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Okay, so there's so.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
There's additional injury basically, and there's no issue as to that.
I mean, there is medical proof, yep, there it is
before and after pictures?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 8 (19:28):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Okay, so we've established.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
That I but I've been having problems trying to find
an attorney that handles with the ADA community.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Okay, what does the ADA? But what does the IDEA
have to do with this?
Speaker 8 (19:42):
It's uh. One attorney did talk to me. He said,
you have a good case, but you need an attorney
that the handles uh the disabled.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, I don't know what. Let me ask me what
does the ADA have to do with this?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I'm just curious. What does the attorney say that this
was an a DA case.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Because a lot of I've called a lot of places
that I prefer attorneys and none of them will take it.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
No, I understand.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
What do you think why would you think the Americans
with Disabilities Act would be involved in this case? The
attorney who told you you have a case, give you
any basis of saying the ADA.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Applies because none of the regular attorneys will take the case.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Okay, you need it. No, I understand, I know, I
get it.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
So the attorney wouldn't tell you why the ADA applies?
All right, So let me ask you this, what do
you think the store did wrong by having a door
that is difficult to open.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Up because they don't have electric doors for the handicap.
They always have the big, big glasses.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Okay. I And by the way, and I don't do
a DA law.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So what you're saying is every business should have an
electric door opener that you press and the door opens up.
Is that your position?
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Yeah? Active CALLI when we have the strict laws for
the handicap.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, Well let me ask you. Have you gone into
a business.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Have you seen any business where every single one of
them has those doors?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Yeah, Macy's, a lot of the majors Macy's.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Okay, all right, how about nordstrooms? Do they have them?
I don't remember saying that they just have They just
have the doors that open up.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Right, But some of them don't.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Okay, I understand.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
But that indicates that there's probably no law that mandates
that you have to have.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
One of those.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You push the button and the doors open up automatically.
I don't think that falls under the ADA, that's my guess,
because your argument is is that every business that has
a front door should have a device that allows handicapped
people to open the door automatically. I mean every business
and and the ones that don't are not in compliance
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with the law.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, I don't think that's correct. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I don't think that's correct unless it can be argued
in the case that it is negligent not to do that,
and I'm not aware of that.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I mean, businesses are going to get a little upset,
to say the least.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Now, it did happen, by the way, with elevators, City
of La mandated every single elevator the panel will be
brought down so people in a wheelchairs can press buttons.
So it's not that it hasn't happened before, but I
have I don't think ada is gonna fly. And if
you can't find the lawyer because you have some pretty
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good damages, I mean, let me tell you injuries under
what you've gone through, and you can show that it
was exacerbated by the way I had back surgery and
I have screws in my back and I was falling
down and I know where you're coming from.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It is no fun.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But the only argument I can think of is maybe
medical malpractice, but that's gonna fly. Not gonna fly. What
do the doctors do wrong? So I mean, you can
keep on looking. But unless you've got a mandate where
those doors have to open automatically when there's a person
who is handicapped, which I don't think it exists. There
may be a court case out there, but certainly not
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an appeals court.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I don't think there's much there.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, and the ADA is pretty firm on their requirements.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I don't think that one flies. I mean, think about it.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
How many businesses that you walk in the front door
have these those what are they those panels that you
press all the hospitals have, for.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Example, Bruce, Hi, Bruce, you're up. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
There's a will and probate. Party A is entitled to
the funds in the bank account. Party D gets the
house and contents. Party C gets the cars in stocks
and bonds. Should party be at the end of the probate,
expect to get the house plus personal effects.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
In that everything in the house. If it says it's
everything in the house, was ever in the house? Personal effects,
non personal effects.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You know, dining room set, kitchen, silverware, everything that's in
the house. Yeah, it's pretty you're telling me it's pretty specific,
you know.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Party B.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's kind of interesting, by the way, is now these
are actual names of people.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Party A, Party B, Party C. No, they're not.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
These people will have names other than that, Okay, just
just asking that question.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
And if the house has been picked over thoroughly, that's
a problem.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Then you have a Party B.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Find out who picked the house over thoroughly and say
I want all this stuff back, and then litigation starts,
and then the issue is nope, I didn't take it.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Well you got to prove it. You took it.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
And by the way, okay, I took it, but you
can't prove it with even there, or yes, I took it.
And you want five thousand dollars for that piece of jewelry,
well you never had it appraised. It's worth two hundred dollars.
Here's two hundred bucks. And someone gets away with a
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Piece of jewelry. It's not that easy.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So what Party B should have done right upon death
is throw up locks on everything. And even right you've
seen that supermarkets where they take those palettes and they
wrap them with that saran wrap, with that cellophane stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You've seen that, Yes, that's what they should have done
with the house.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
He's just wrap the whole thing up with that you
know that to sell paper certainly changed all the locks
padlocks on there. I mean, people don't think about that.
Who do you think clean the place out?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well, we don't know if it's Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
We won't find out.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Someone is very disigned. Yeah, very disigners.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
And by the way, when I'm telling you someone should
have done that, who the hell does that?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
You know?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Nobody does, you know? So it's not like anybody's done
anything wrong. It's just that there's someone who is rather dishonest.
So you've got to beat him up. If you find
out who it is, you're not you forget about suing
and just take a baseball back.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You know, It's that simple. That's what I would do.
This is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Handle on the Law Marginal Legal Advice. Frank. Hello, Frank,
welcome to Handle on the Law. Good morning, sir, good
to hear you. Yes it is. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
All right?
Speaker 9 (26:43):
So, I'm a contract security guard for Ali Metro Transit System.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I've been there for about a year now.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
And I've been seeing a lot of changes in the
Metro system safety and guidelines that they have, and uh,
just within the last six months, I've been you know,
feeling a lot of stress, taking some time.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Off for mental health.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
You know issues, and I've exhausted my time on that. So, uh,
I think it's time that I see a doctor. My
doctor is planning on taking me off for short term.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Disability based on short term disability. Okay, short term disability
based on disability based on what what is?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Would your disability? Mental health? Stress? P all right? All right?
Uh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Oh yeah, so you know, she says she's gonna, you know,
have me evaluate it within the month's time, see what
goes from there. But uh, I don't know what my
next step would be.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
If your next step is uh, first of all, you
contact a disability attorney or camp disability attorney who will
tell you what to do. And that's super specially onto
its own and uh, they're because there's certain steps you
have to take. By the way, does the Metro still
had the have the ads on the buses say that
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say take the Metro you will die?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Are those still up there? They changed it up?
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Okay, I'm glad I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
La Metro.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
By the way, if for those of you that are
not familiar with La Metro, a lot of us wouldn't
get near La Metro. There's attack after attack after attack,
which is why people like Frank are hired as security guards.
And if I were an administrate of law judge and
I asked you where do you work and you say
La Metro.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Go, oh yeah, yeah, I could see.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Uh there are some mental issues anyway, you need a
you need a work comp disability attorney.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Work comp attorney, you'll help you out on there.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And there's a zillion of them out there, and uh
that's uh, that's where you go and you talk to
any of the other people that were equipment on disability people.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Have been hurt. So uh yeah, man, and that's what
you do. I mean, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Sometimes you get and this one probably you'll certainly have
an attorney certainly talk to you. It's not like do
I have a case. Maybe you don't, but I would
think that there is one. Okay, David, you're up, Let's
see if we can do this one.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yes, I am here.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Oh you know what, David, Oh you know, David, let
me do this.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Let me stick you on hold because I want to
give you enough time because I would be cutting you
off in about thirty seconds.
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Okay, so hang on.
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remind you that the top of the hour is always
the best time to call. That's the best chance you
have of getting in. Also the first hour, the top
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this is at the top of the heap. Now, a
couple of things about phone calls coming in. There are
times when you will not hear me give the phone number.
I can go an hour and a half without being
a phone number, which means all the lines are jammed,
and if you do call in, the lines are busy.
There are times when people don't call, and I'm sitting
(01:09):
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a real dearth the phone calls, I then will have
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And by the way, is this Sam or Elmer who's
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Sam? Okay? Sam, I didn't recognize your voice for a moment. Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Phone number eight hundred five to zero one five three four.
That's eight hundred five two zero one five three four.
Same rules always apply. If you cannot be understood at all,
you have a good chance of getting in better than most.
If you have are a special needs person, and the
more special needs you are good.
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life about you, good good combination. If you have an
incredible handicap, that's always good. For example, no arms, no legs,
and basically a head on top of a torso also
very strong in any combination of those works. Phone number
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eight hundred five two zero one five three four. That's
eight hundred five two zero one five three four. This
is handle on the law marginal legal advice, where.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I tell you you have no case.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
There was a lawyer by the name of Tom Girardi,
disbarred celebrity lawyer who I ran into. Every year I
am see something called the Lawyer's Philharmonic every year. That
are lawyers and judges who are in a philharmonic. A
guy named Gary Green, also a lawyer by the way,
(03:04):
is the founder and the conductor. And these are all
practicing lawyers, judges, paralegals who decided that instead of going
into music, I mean they're world class musicians, that instead
of going into music, they wanted to make a living.
So every year there is this concert and it's a
benefit concert, and I amc it every year and it's
a real highlight.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Of my year.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Tom Girardi, very famous, very high end, very rich lawyer,
was always sponsor. So I'd see him up on stage
and we sit in the back in the green room
and we would talk and boy, that's Tom Girardi. Well
it turns out that he was stealing millions upon millions
(03:45):
of dollars from his clients trust accounts. He would settle
major cases and instead of giving the money to his clients,
he would just keep it and spend it chartering private jets.
His wife was one of the women on the house
of Beverly Hills, and it was he funded this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
In any case, he was sort of suffered.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
From some kind of dementia, and so his argument when
he was arrested he couldn't be tried because he didn't
have the capacity to defend himself.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That's one of the requirements of a trial.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, a judge later held that he does have the
capacity to understand what he's doing, and that's one of
the requirements. And he went ahead and went to trial
and was convicted. And the people he ripped off I'm
talking about people that were so vulnerable who trusted him.
It's not just business stealings. I mean these were people
who needed the money to pay for the wheelchairs because
(04:43):
they suffered a medical malpractice or major injury, So I
mean a real slee's Well. In any case, he was
found guilty of stealing millions of dollars and at trial
usually at point the other finger augate the homework. So
his lawyers wanted to blame the thefts on the firm's
(05:06):
chief financial officer, Chris karam Common, who's charged separately, and
that Girardi was a mere figurehead, had a valuable name
and had no idea what was going on. Okay, well,
jury didn't buy it in any case, down he went
and is that an unusual Yeah. The problem with lawyers
(05:26):
they have such immense power. And I'm not talking as
societally speaking. I'm talking about they're the ones that settle.
They're the ones that get the money. You have a
lawyer settles a major case, the lawyer gets the money
and then divvy's it up, and so that leaves a
lot of room for vulnerability and a lot of.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Room for screwing people.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Frankly, all right, phone calls here we go. Is that
Lecai or lacai? What syllable is that lakai? Do I
have that right?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We just lose la Kai. Now go figure David, Hello, David, welcome,
But yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Okay, my son was involved with an assault and I
involved the mother and boyfriend. And this was the first
day before they were going off to school the next
day and she calls me and she wants me to
come pick him up, and I am screaming in the background,
talk about being choked. At this point it's ten o'clock.
(06:30):
I just said, you know, put him in his room
and have him go to bed. Well, she's got a
rental house and she's got property, and she actually had
the boys in a fifth wheel trailer, you know, stay
in the night. The first night before school. Well, I
let her go and she called the cops, and the
police officer called me, said, hey, there's a mutual fight
(06:53):
between my eleven year old, sixty three pound kid into adults,
basically how he put it. And then he told me that,
you know, he's an eleven year old kid and he
doesn't have an eleven year old mind, which kind of
really upset me. But he brings him out hits about
eleven forty five, and I put him in bed. I said,
let's just go to bed. He got school the next day.
They took one kid out of the domestic situation but
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left my other son. You know, that was my first
problem with it. So the next day I get up
and I noticed there's bruising on his right side of
his face to his ear. He's got cut underneath of
his eye, good scratch underneath of his right ear. And
I basically I take him to school, and I'm just
(07:37):
I mean, I'm deciding myself. So I'm trying to think,
you know, what do I do do I file an
order of protection and that's what I decided to do.
I take him, I brought this school, pick him up,
take him to in front of a judge, because I
knew if I would have went, they probably would have
gotten this face. Get them from the judge. He looked
his face. Did you mon did this to year? He's like, yes,
(07:58):
So this is this is a a Tuesday, first day
of school. Wednesday goes by. I don't hear anything Thursday
or Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I go back to the courthouse.
I'm like, hey, I submitted these photos to you. I
want to file charges against these people. I haven't heard anything.
I haven't heard anything from DCNFS, no, no services available
(08:20):
to my son, victims wise, and you know, I'm just
wondering what's going on. They've been giving me numbers to
the State Attorney's office. I've been calling this number, calling them,
and we've been leaving.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
All right, got it?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So David, what's your question? So they're not going to
help you.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The authorities are not doing anything, and they're not going
to go in and arrest the boyfriend or the mother,
even after you've shown the kid was beaten up. Uh,
and then taken to school. I'm surprised the school didn't
call the police, right there. Uh, that's kind of it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Actually, yeah, I actually called the school after getting the
order of protection because yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I okay, all right, so what's your question.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Well, since I've involved d CFS, I'm getting all the
services myself, going through myself. I take them to the
er er confirmed, confirmed truck.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Okay, all right, what's your question? I got it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
We've established that your kid was hurt by mother, boyfriend
or both.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What is your question?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, I'm just I see a change in the pattern
of response.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Now I see by who, by your pattern?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Change in the pattern of by who the defeat Department
of Protective Services, the authorities, the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Who where's the change? The authorities? They don't want to
do anything.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And now, well, the State Attorney's office says that we
have to take it back down to the the Sriff's
department and the Sheriff's department. They you know what, they
knew that I involved the CFS, I got an er.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They decided they.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Were going to be a lot of it and let
the let the department take care of all right, what's
your question?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
What's your question.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I'm just wondering. I'm just wondering, what what I don't
you want to mess up this process. I just want
to make sure that I'm doing everything right.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, he sounds like you're doing everything right.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You contacted all the authorities, and two things are happening.
Either they are so busy that this is not a
big enough case, which doesn't seem correct, or it's fallen
through the cracks, or you have people there that don't
care enough.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
You're doing everything right, and you just have to keep on.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Pushing and pushing and pushing. And this is the squeaky Wheel.
I'm kind of surprised it went that far and no
one's been arrested yet. A kid goes into school after
a protective order and he is beat up, bruising, etc.
So yeah, you're doing everything right. Yeah, there's nothing more
you can do. Maybe kill the mother. I don't know
(10:42):
fifth wheel. I didn't understand where the connection with a
fifth wheel came in.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
This is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Hi, Sue, you're up, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Hi Handle, I'm calling about a debt collector who's been
calling me about my dad's medical debt and he died
about more than two years ago, the debt collector.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
How's he still calling it? How's a debt collector call
you when he's dead?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
They're calling me because somehow, because your dad died.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Okay, I conflated.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I thought there was the debt collector that died and
still calling you, because that'd be a greatest Yeah, all right, Okay,
So the debt collector is calling you about your dad's
medical debt and your dad has been how long has
your dad been dead?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
In June twenty twenty two, Okay, a couple.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Of years ago, all right. Uh, and he wants, uh,
I guess you to pay.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Has a debt collector specifically said you're responsible?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
No, they just didn't know he died. They want me
to send it in his death certificate, and then.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They yeah, you have no duty to send in a
death certificate. Uh, you can tell the collector. Look it
up yourself. You know it's the county records. Pull it
out yourself. It's been a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You have absintely all of them.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, you have no duty. Oh no, no, you don't
just ignore them. You have a ripper in good time,
is what you do.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Unless there is an estate or a trust of which
you are the trustee or you are an executor of
the of the estate, then that's a different story. Was
there a will, was there or is there a trust?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
There was a trust and me and my stepbrother were
in charge of it. I disbursed the money from my
half the family eight months ago. Okay, still procrastinated and
did not.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Okay, Now it's that's Sue. That's a different story because
you are representing. You are the trustee of a trust
and the trust on behalf of your dad.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
If there's money in the.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Trust, ohs, medical bills, ohs money, So you have to
now deal with it.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, we didn't get to the second part. Get the
desert to.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Close the account out real fast.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, get the get the death certificate and send it
to them.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
And cause you just close out the account, my stepbrother
and not worry about it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
No, no, no, no, you don't just close out an
account because if there's money, if it's money has been
dispersed while it is due for medical bills, the trustee
or the executor has a duty to pay those medical bills.
If the debt collector just wants a death certificate, send it.
Just send it and hopefully it goes away. How big
(13:24):
of a medical bills? Do you have any idea how
much money is owed?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
They won't tell me until I send it in.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Okay, go ahead and send it. Yeah, go ahead, send
it in. Just send it in and see what happens. Yeah,
you cooperate, because at this point you're not. You don't
agree to anything. You do not agree, You do not
sign nothing. If they just want a death certificate, go ahead,
send them a death certificate.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Okay, start with that, all right, that's how you start. Now.
If there isn't.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
A will or a trust and it's only the trustee
or the executor that has a duty, you don't have
a duty to parents medical bills, adult children's medical bills, sisters, brothers, uncles, ants.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You just don't.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
And debt collectors will never tell you that ever, ever, ever, ever.
All Right, David, I thought we already did that. Yeah,
I thought we already did that. Okay, yeah we did,
all right, David, nice talking to you.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
We had an account. Hello, William, welcome.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Yes, I have a neighbor who wants to put solar
on their roof. And he's asking me to either trim
or take down a tree that's shading his roots. Okay,
am I obligated to do that.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
That well, you can make him pay for it, but
you know it's your neighbor. Let's say you do trim it.
How much in the way of your view, your enjoyment
of your property? Is it going to be if you
trim the place so he can get this solar is
solar system working.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Oh, I don't care that the tree is a tree,
it's not any Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Then just you know what, here's what I would do.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You know, you have no obligation, you have no obligation.
Here's what I would do, okay. And this is not
a legal piece of advice. Is I would say, sure,
you pay for the trimming, and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And he's never going to say no to.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
That, okay.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
And then the second question is should I have him
sign a liability waiver for any workers he has on
my property?
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Sure, you know why not?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I mean it's you know, yeah, I mean you have
homeowners insurance for casual labor. But it doesn't hurt, It
doesn't hurt, it's not a liability waiver. He's just responsible
for any damages workers, cause that's all.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's a good question.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Actually I didn't even think about that, you know, all right,
you know I wouldn't have bothered. But you know you're
actually you're ahead of me on that one.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Uh what is.
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This is handle on the law.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
You're listening to bill handle on demand from kf I
A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
This is the hat trick, Lockai. If we don't do
it this time, we've tried it twice, not your fault.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
The line didn't work well.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Then clearly God does not intend for us to connect Lokai.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Let's go for it.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yes, well, how's that pronounced? By the way, is kai?
Is it lackaye? Where's the syllables here?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Loki l akai?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Okay? And that is what a Hawaiian name, Hawaiian correct okay?
Got it?
Speaker 8 (18:00):
I had I have three discs pinching my spinal cord
where they call final synosis with mylopathy. I had surgery
May third of this year. So I didn't have balance
and I kept falling, so I had to have urgent surgery.
So I had surgery at USC. It was seven and
a half hour surgery. I have sixteen screws, a plate,
(18:25):
and two rods holding my neck together, so I couldn't
lift over five pounds. They sit after the surgery on
June sixth, I tried to get into this business that
usually had to have those glass walls and the tall
glass doors. So there's a resistance opening those doors because
they don't want the doors to open on windy days. Anyway,
(18:47):
I had my cane on my right hand and tried
open the door with my left hand. My knees buckled
and I fell on my back in my head. They
called nine one one. They called nine one one. Make
a long story short that you got to talk to
your surgeon. Your surgeon ordered an MRI with contrasts the
(19:07):
radiologist interpretation of the The MRI said, there is forget
the medical name as softening of the spinal cord that
was not there on previously.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Okay, so there's so.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
There's additional injury basically, and there's no issue as to that.
I mean, there is medical proof, yep, there it is
before and after pictures?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 8 (19:28):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Okay, so we've established.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
That I but I've been having problems trying to find
an attorney that handles with the ADA community.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Okay, what does the ADA? But what does the IDEA
have to do with this?
Speaker 8 (19:42):
It's uh. One attorney did talk to me. He said,
you have a good case, but you need an attorney
that the handles uh the disabled.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, I don't know what. Let me ask me what
does the ADA have to do with this?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I'm just curious. What does the attorney say that this
was an a DA case.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Because a lot of I've called a lot of places
that I prefer attorneys and none of them will take it.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
No, I understand.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
What do you think why would you think the Americans
with Disabilities Act would be involved in this case? The
attorney who told you you have a case, give you
any basis of saying the ADA.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Applies because none of the regular attorneys will take the case.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Okay, you need it. No, I understand, I know, I
get it.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
So the attorney wouldn't tell you why the ADA applies?
All right, So let me ask you this, what do
you think the store did wrong by having a door
that is difficult to open.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Up because they don't have electric doors for the handicap.
They always have the big, big glasses.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Okay. I And by the way, and I don't do
a DA law.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So what you're saying is every business should have an
electric door opener that you press and the door opens up.
Is that your position?
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Yeah? Active CALLI when we have the strict laws for
the handicap.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, Well let me ask you. Have you gone into
a business.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Have you seen any business where every single one of
them has those doors?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Yeah, Macy's, a lot of the majors Macy's.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Okay, all right, how about nordstrooms? Do they have them?
I don't remember saying that they just have They just
have the doors that open up.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Right, But some of them don't.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Okay, I understand.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
But that indicates that there's probably no law that mandates
that you have to have.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
One of those.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You push the button and the doors open up automatically.
I don't think that falls under the ADA, that's my guess,
because your argument is is that every business that has
a front door should have a device that allows handicapped
people to open the door automatically. I mean every business
and and the ones that don't are not in compliance
(21:58):
with the law.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, I don't think that's correct. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I don't think that's correct unless it can be argued
in the case that it is negligent not to do that,
and I'm not aware of that.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I mean, businesses are going to get a little upset,
to say the least.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Now, it did happen, by the way, with elevators, City
of La mandated every single elevator the panel will be
brought down so people in a wheelchairs can press buttons.
So it's not that it hasn't happened before, but I
have I don't think ada is gonna fly. And if
you can't find the lawyer because you have some pretty
(22:35):
good damages, I mean, let me tell you injuries under
what you've gone through, and you can show that it
was exacerbated by the way I had back surgery and
I have screws in my back and I was falling
down and I know where you're coming from.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It is no fun.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But the only argument I can think of is maybe
medical malpractice, but that's gonna fly. Not gonna fly. What
do the doctors do wrong? So I mean, you can
keep on looking. But unless you've got a mandate where
those doors have to open automatically when there's a person
who is handicapped, which I don't think it exists. There
may be a court case out there, but certainly not
(23:15):
an appeals court.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I don't think there's much there.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, and the ADA is pretty firm on their requirements.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I don't think that one flies. I mean, think about it.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
How many businesses that you walk in the front door
have these those what are they those panels that you
press all the hospitals have, for.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Example, Bruce, Hi, Bruce, you're up. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
There's a will and probate. Party A is entitled to
the funds in the bank account. Party D gets the
house and contents. Party C gets the cars in stocks
and bonds. Should party be at the end of the probate,
expect to get the house plus personal effects.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
In that everything in the house. If it says it's
everything in the house, was ever in the house? Personal effects,
non personal effects.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
You know, dining room set, kitchen, silverware, everything that's in
the house. Yeah, it's pretty you're telling me it's pretty specific,
you know.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Party B.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's kind of interesting, by the way, is now these
are actual names of people.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Party A, Party B, Party C. No, they're not.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
These people will have names other than that, Okay, just
just asking that question.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
And if the house has been picked over thoroughly, that's
a problem.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Then you have a Party B.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Find out who picked the house over thoroughly and say
I want all this stuff back, and then litigation starts,
and then the issue is nope, I didn't take it.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Well you got to prove it. You took it.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
And by the way, okay, I took it, but you
can't prove it with even there, or yes, I took it.
And you want five thousand dollars for that piece of jewelry,
well you never had it appraised. It's worth two hundred dollars.
Here's two hundred bucks. And someone gets away with a
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Piece of jewelry. It's not that easy.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So what Party B should have done right upon death
is throw up locks on everything. And even right you've
seen that supermarkets where they take those palettes and they
wrap them with that saran wrap, with that cellophane stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You've seen that, Yes, that's what they should have done
with the house.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
He's just wrap the whole thing up with that you
know that to sell paper certainly changed all the locks
padlocks on there. I mean, people don't think about that.
Who do you think clean the place out?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well, we don't know if it's Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
We won't find out.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Someone is very disigned. Yeah, very disigners.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
And by the way, when I'm telling you someone should
have done that, who the hell does that?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
You know?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Nobody does, you know? So it's not like anybody's done
anything wrong. It's just that there's someone who is rather dishonest.
So you've got to beat him up. If you find
out who it is, you're not you forget about suing
and just take a baseball back.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You know, It's that simple. That's what I would do.
This is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Handle on the Law Marginal Legal Advice. Frank. Hello, Frank,
welcome to Handle on the Law. Good morning, sir, good
to hear you. Yes it is. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
All right?
Speaker 9 (26:43):
So, I'm a contract security guard for Ali Metro Transit System.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I've been there for about a year now.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
And I've been seeing a lot of changes in the
Metro system safety and guidelines that they have, and uh,
just within the last six months, I've been you know,
feeling a lot of stress, taking some time.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Off for mental health.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
You know issues, and I've exhausted my time on that. So, uh,
I think it's time that I see a doctor. My
doctor is planning on taking me off for short term.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Disability based on short term disability. Okay, short term disability
based on disability based on what what is?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Would your disability? Mental health? Stress? P all right? All right?
Uh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Oh yeah, so you know, she says she's gonna, you know,
have me evaluate it within the month's time, see what
goes from there. But uh, I don't know what my
next step would be.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
If your next step is uh, first of all, you
contact a disability attorney or camp disability attorney who will
tell you what to do. And that's super specially onto
its own and uh, they're because there's certain steps you
have to take. By the way, does the Metro still
had the have the ads on the buses say that
(28:12):
say take the Metro you will die?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Are those still up there? They changed it up?
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Okay, I'm glad I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
La Metro.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
By the way, if for those of you that are
not familiar with La Metro, a lot of us wouldn't
get near La Metro. There's attack after attack after attack,
which is why people like Frank are hired as security guards.
And if I were an administrate of law judge and
I asked you where do you work and you say
La Metro.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Go, oh yeah, yeah, I could see.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Uh there are some mental issues anyway, you need a
you need a work comp disability attorney.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Work comp attorney, you'll help you out on there.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And there's a zillion of them out there, and uh
that's uh, that's where you go and you talk to
any of the other people that were equipment on disability people.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Have been hurt. So uh yeah, man, and that's what
you do. I mean, that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Sometimes you get and this one probably you'll certainly have
an attorney certainly talk to you. It's not like do
I have a case. Maybe you don't, but I would
think that there is one. Okay, David, you're up, Let's
see if we can do this one.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Yes, I am here.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Oh you know what, David, Oh you know, David, let
me do this.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Let me stick you on hold because I want to
give you enough time because I would be cutting you
off in about thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Okay, so hang on.
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