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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
The following is up pre recorded program. Here is something
that happened with the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
The Supreme Court passed on the chance to get rid
of protest free zones at abortion clinics.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And here's what's happening with anti abortion folks.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
They have not only have they successfully petitioned and finally
got the Supreme Court, a very conservative Supreme Court for
the first time in decades to overturn Row, but also
on a personal level, women going into legal abortion clinics.
Protests are outside and women are actually accosted. Anti abortion
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people get in front of them, they block sidewalks, they're
abused and screamed at.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So what a lot of states have done is.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Set up these protests free zones where there is a
certain number of feet where protesters cannot invade that zone,
cannot go that close to the front door of an
abortion clinic, for example, have to be one hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Feet away from any woman who is walking in the door.
And so.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That was a two thousand decision Hill versus Colorado that
upheld that protests restrictions around abortion clinics.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
All right, that was the Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And now the Court has been asked to allow the
overturning of that law by pro pro choice ti abortion folks.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And what did the Court do.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
They don't want to get involved, They said, we don't
want to hear it, which means that those abortion free
zones are upheld. That those laws by the states that
say you can demonstrate, but not within X number of
feet you can't. You can certainly talk to people, because
that's the first Amendment amendment issue, but not within X
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number of feet of the front door or the clinic itself.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And no surprise, because this is precedent.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Ledo, the two most conservative
members of the Court, said.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
They would have taken the cases.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
They have no problem and they would have voted to
overturn those laws, mainly because they're about as pro choice
as you can get, and they were the most anti
abortion and are the most anti abortion justices on the
Supreme Court. All right, let's go ahead and take some
phone calls. Hey Blake, welcome to Handle on the law.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Hey Handle, First time a caller, longtime listener.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I do.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
So.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I am a college student at a local nursing school
here in southern California. I am fully vaccinated. I've followed
all their mandates that they've required, and we just started
our last semester of school. And every semester they have
a checks and balance is to make sure that everyone's
vaccinated all that good stuff before they go to the
next semester. So where the problem happened is I was
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going through this process and they said, you don't have
a recent twenty twenty five vaccination. I said, yeah, I
just got it in November of last year. And my
doctor said I'm still in compliance. And they said, does
it matter, go get one now or your drop from
the program. And I told them medical exemption. I said, guys,
this is you know, my doctor's telling me this is
too soon. You guys clearly have my paperwork. They said, nope,
(03:53):
we don't care. So I went and did it, and
then afterwards they said, hope's just kidding.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
There was a.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Typo in our paperwork and it was over. It was
an oversight that we required, you know, a lot of
folks to get one when they didn't need one. So
my question is, do I have a case against them?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Even though yeah, no, I understand you got a vaccination
that you didn't need. As a result of getting that vaccination,
you didn't need. Anything happened to you not yet?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Okay, well great, so why wouldn't we wait? So let
me ask you this. You know, did they screw up?
They did?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Is?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Are they responsible? Yes? Are they responsible for what?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
At this point, Blake, you're gonna go I don't know
if it's gonna happen to me or not happen to me.
And what are You're not gonna wait long term implications
of having two of these vaccinations. So the point is
they screwed up. They're not good people. And what are
you gonna get out of this money? I mean literally,
that's all you can sue for is money, Blake, And
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how much does that work?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Gotcha?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, that's the problem. By the way, I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
In any way try to tell you that it wasn't
a genuine screw up, but it fell through the cracks.
And the good news is they didn't take off the
wrong leg in a surgery.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And I know you now.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Had they taken off the wrong leg and the surgery,
I would have been a lot more excited.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That is a good case for a medical provider. Carol, Hi, Carol.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Hi.
Speaker 9 (05:24):
Yesterday somebody called me and asked me if I were me,
and I said yes, And subsequently they also wheedled my birthday.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Out of me.
Speaker 9 (05:38):
And now I'm afraid that I'm put myself up for
a sam and I need to know how to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Maybe, but all they got was your birthday, which, Carol,
if I had your name, I can figure out who
you are because I know approximately where you live. You
know a city or estate, because that's out there. I
certainly have your phone number because I've just called you,
and so all right, so let's say you have a name,
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and I have an idea which county you were born in,
and I go to that county, I pull birth records,
and therefore now you have a date there. You know,
I think you're okay because you didn't give them all
the information, but they're gonna have it.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
They have it anyway, Carol.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
They have my information, they have your information, and all
you can do is make sure you don't give anybody
who calls you any information on the phone, because legitimate
people asking for information will not call you unless you know.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
They're calling you. I just got a call from the bank.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I just did something on a docu serve and I'm
a LifeLock I'm a member of LifeLock, I'm a customer
and they immediately contacted me and on text.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But all they said is yes or no. You know,
did you apply for this yes or no? Just confirmed.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Same thing with bank transfers. My bank will ask me
if it's a substantial transfer. Bottom line, Carol, is you're okay.
I don't think you are any more danger than you
were before the phone call, but it's a lesson or
let me go the other way. Do you have a
house Do you own a house?
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Okay, it's gone.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, because they have your phone number, You're going to
be living in a dumpster.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Okay. Do you have a car?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay, good, so they can't get your car. Do you
have any money in the bank? Lots?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay, come Monday morning. If you check, you won't have
any money left they've taken at all. Just kidding you, Carol,
don't worry about it. Okay, You're going to be fine, you.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Know, if Carol, you see, I told her, Just kidding now.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
If Carol was not one hundred and forty years old,
I would have gone right to the edge on that one.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But you know, today I have a heart. I mean,
can you imagine I actually have a heart? All right?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Talking about having a heart and caring about people who
live in chronic pain. And the reason I care is
I happen to live with someone who lives in serious
chronic pain. And she has a podcast about pain. It's
called The Pain Game Podcast, and it's about people who
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Speaker 3 (08:51):
This is handle on the Law, all right, Let's get
through more.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Handle on the law phone calls here Susan, Hello, Susan,
Hi Bill, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
There's always a pleasure listening to you. So I have
a question, please. I haven't established f corporation for over
ten years and also a revocable trust. So originally my
husband and I were going to put all the three
properties we own into the corporation, but it ended up
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putting them into the trust. But for years the accountant
filed our income tax as if the properties were in
the corporation. And now I wish to dissolve the corporation,
so I want to know where are there ramestications of
doing this.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
There are none.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
You can dissolve the corporation easily, and that's for one thing,
And you can taste take whatever property that you transferred
into the trust, since it is revocable, and change the
trust completely, so you've got complete power across the board.
So there really aren't anyifications. And to whatever tax ramifications
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there are, you're changing it from the property owned by
a business to a property owned by a trust or
not a trust or goes back in your name. I
think it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And you want to ask your if you own everything,
if you own everything.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
You're fine. There's not a problem at all on that one.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Laurie, Hi, Laurie, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
This is a difficult question that has to do with
the immunity of a judge who's not on the bench,
and the judge does not wear a black robe. That
doesn't matter, okay, okay, Well, if you have proof that
a judge is committing criminal acts that are not part
of the scope of their employment as a judge, tacking
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into websites, you know, can you see them for damages?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Sure in state or sure sure.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Immunity that a judge has that the bench has does
not include a judge committing crimes.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
That judge is held to whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Criminal acts as an individual, So that's not a problem.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Now did this happen to you?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Okay, so the court or federal.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Doesn't really matter. But let me ask what were you
in front of the judge for and what did the.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
Judge doug This judge was never my judge.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Okay, just a judge, all right, judge, all right? What
kind of criminal acts did the judge do?
Speaker 10 (11:35):
Posting phony websites about me under my name, tacking into
the online computer system changing.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and Uh okay, so yeah, you've got
criminal acts going on in his mind.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Have you been damaged? Have you been damaged? How have
you been damaged?
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Well, in my personal life, my professional life has been ruined.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
By your Okay, how is your professional life.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You've lost You've lost clients, you've lost business.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yes, you can prove that. That's a lawsuit. Yeah, that
is a lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
But the answer is yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
So yeah, so we hire a lawyer and go for it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, judges are not immune. What if a judge commits murder, Well,
I've got an immunity. That's I can do that. Or
rob a bank, Well I'm allowed to do that because
I'm a judge. Now it doesn't matter the judges in
a black robe or not.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Oh okay, alex Hi, alex Hi Bill.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Me and my girlfriend are big fan.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So thank you, thanks.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
For all you do.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Sure.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Yeah, yeah, So my I was involved in the Eaton fire.
I had an apartment. It didn't burn down, but it
was in the immediate evacuation zone.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Our our unit now.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Is deemed safe to you know, go back. The evacuation
order was dropped. But we don't don't have any running.
You don't have any electricity and the gas isn't on yet.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
I contacted our landlord, the management company, to see if
we're still if we can get the rent pro rated
for the amount that we were, you know, displaced and
like evacuated, and they said that, They said that we're
still going to have to pay the full rent. There
isn't going to be any credit because okay.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You're talking about the management company said that, all right?
So how long?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So how long it has a place been uninhabitable that
you couldn't get in at all?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And now how long.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Is it you're allowed in but you have no gas,
you have no electricity.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
It was uninhabitable I want to.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Say, probably for like five days or.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So, okay, and how long okay, then you move back in,
and how long is.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It that you don't have gas for electricity? How long
have you been in there since the seventh? Okay, so
you've got you've got a few weeks. Now is the
landlord post to collect rent? No? Because you can't live
there all right. So with that being said, the law
says that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
The landlord isn't collecting or cannot collect rent, and if
you stop paying the rent, then the landlord may end
up filing a three day notice to pay rent or quit.
The landlord will not win. You will win the case. Now,
let's get practical for a moment.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
If, per chance, one in one.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Hundred, the landlord does win, and now you are evicted,
and the landlord is going to be able to get
three times as much rent for the property or more rent.
I mean there's certain you know, the state says no
more than ten percent because that's price gouging.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
But how long does that continue on? I don't know.
So how much are you paying you rent? It's nineteen
hundred all.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Right, and let's say you're out for three weeks, okay,
before it comes back to your normal.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
So now.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Effectively you're only within one week, So one week out
of nineteen hundred wherever that is six hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Do you have any place to go?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Yeah, right now, I'm staying with family, just couching.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Okay. Now let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
If you don't have an apartment, you're not going to
get one, not in the Eating fire area, not in
the Palisades fire area.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And then you have to just.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Figure out a practical approach. And let's say you win,
which you will, Okay, you will prevail. Now you have
a landlord that hates you and wants you out. Yeah,
that's now, that's the practical. Do you suck it up
and pay twelve hundred bucks in rent, especially when it's
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not costing you any money because you're living with family legally.
I'm telling you you're on solid ground practically speaking.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
What do you do? Exactly? Yeah, so that is so
it's yeah, you're going to win.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But you know, winning may not be the best thing
in the world either either way, you're screwed, you.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Know, Yeah, yeah, either way.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But you know, the good news is you have your place.
You kept all of your belongings. You're not out there
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Speaker 3 (16:28):
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This is handle on.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
The law you're listening to bill Handle on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Back we go to handle on the law. Alicia, Hello Alicia,
A hi Bill.
Speaker 11 (18:18):
I have a question about my father and his wife
sold a property and kept the proceeds from the sale
of the house, and he didn't tell the adult executor
or the beneficiaries of the home.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Okay, I don't understand. Was the home and a trust?
Speaker 11 (18:42):
It isn't a trust, all right?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Who is the trustee? Is it your dad?
Speaker 11 (18:49):
Well, they were both listed as the trustees. Because this
is not the first marriage for them.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It doesn't matter. I just asked, was the property in
the trust name?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And what kind of power did they have under the trust?
Could they sell it and keep the money or who?
Let me ask you, who's the beneficiaries under the trust?
If they both die?
Speaker 11 (19:14):
Well, he had his beneficiaries listed as his children. She
had her beneficiaries listed as her children.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, So the property should go to the kids if
one dies. Well, if one dies depends on how the
property is held. But so they sold the property and
kept the money and you're one of the beneficiaries, yes, okay,
in violation of the trust instrument.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I'm assuming right, Okay? How much money do they keep
and how much did they sell it? For Alicia.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
About seven hundred and forty nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Okay, how much money do they put in their pocket?
Speaker 11 (19:57):
IM not sure the house was paid for?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Okay, then they put seven hundred and forty nine thousand
dollars in their pocket because it was one hundred percent equity.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, I would you know the particulars.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Since I don't do trust in a state, it's certainly
worth calling a trust in a state lawyer that there's
enough money there that the beneficiary is under the trust.
What he and his wife did is violate the terms
of the trust and kept money when they shouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Or if the money.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Is if the if the property is sold and the
money is put into the trust, as opposed to them
taking it personally, that they're allowed to do if the
trust allows them to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Do you have a cop Have you seen the trust?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
I have? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (20:46):
Okay, and say that specifically.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Okay, Well, it may allow them to do it, which
is why you want to talk to a trust and
a state lawyer and.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Show the lawyer of the trust, say here you go, and.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Here's what happened, and you'll get the answer pretty quickly,
and you may you may have a case and.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Uh, I don't know, Kelly, how unusual. I don't know. Hello, Kelly, welcome,
Hi Bill.
Speaker 12 (21:13):
I am the lead plaintiff in a privacy case against
a hospital for basically selling information from the hospital's websites
to Facebook and Twitter and Meta and all these different things.
So my question is that is where my medical group
is through that hospital as the lead plaintiff who's getting
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sued by you know, big law firm for big money
because it's a big hospital, would they say, oh, you
can't use us anymore so I lose my doctors and
my medical group and all the things that.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Okay, well, let me ask this. Do you have insurance
through that hospital? Do you have private insurance? Or they
just say we don't want you as a patient.
Speaker 12 (21:52):
No, I have private insurance.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But they say we don't want we don't want you
as a patient.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
Okay, yeah, that's what they're saying, we don't want.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
You as a patient.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I mean they have the right to say no to
any patient. That's not a problem.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
However, because they're being sued.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I don't know, you didn't do anything wrong, you didn't
act out, so I don't think they would say no.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I don't think they would.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It would just the optics of it are horrible, and
there may be some liability on that part if they
bounce you just for having filed a lawsuit, you using
your legal rights. So as far as I'm concerned, I
don't think so. But then again, do I practice that
kind of law?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Of course? How does that work? Greg? Hello? Greg? Welcome?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (22:45):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Oh ahead?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 13 (22:50):
Yeah, I am sixty five years old, officially certified handicap.
I have ploppy and the back issue post lamaectimyes syndrome. Anyways,
I decided to go to a get a pedicure here
like thirteen months ago, and then over roughly an eighteen
nineteen month period, I went maybe ninety ten times, and
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my feet to be bleeding every once in a while.
One time I got home, I felt pain. Later that
night I looked and saw that it looked like you
sugar grind me to it. Anyways, take a long story short,
I got infected and I had to go December first
to the prompt Care. I put on antibiotics. I had
(23:39):
just soaked my feet three times a day and it's
just starting to get better. Okay, and you have a case.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Here you have a case. All right. First of all,
my first question is are you straight? Just a curious.
Speaker 13 (23:58):
Question give me and my gay Oh well.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
No, okay, because I've never I've never seen a straight
man have a pedicure in my life.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
You know that, don't you.
Speaker 13 (24:10):
That's for starting.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well, then you can't know if you get pedicures. You
can't know.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
If you get pedicures, you can't be straight. I'm sorry,
I mean I think that's the.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
They even tried to hook me up with some girlfriends.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Oh, okay, I'm you're and you're the pedicure, the pedicures,
the manicures tried to.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Hook you up with a girlfriends?
Speaker 13 (24:30):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Uh do you speak Vietnamese?
Speaker 13 (24:33):
I'm telling too.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Okay, all right, fair enough. Uh, this is a little
bit problematic for.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You because as it gets infected, as it hurts, you
could put on antibiotics yourself. And you've got to connect
the what they did to the infection, which isn't hard
to do. And how long when we talk about it
got infected, how serious an infection? Because you're doing fine
(25:01):
now or starting to heal, how long were you not healed?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I got all right, Well, you know what I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
If you have a case. It's one of those things.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, hold on, I understand.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It's one of those things where, uh there may be
negligence and they this cause injury. UH don't know. But
even if they did, are the damages strong enough for
a lawyer to pick it up? Let me suggest go
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Speaker 3 (25:32):
They'll they'll tell you and they're very good. They're very honest.
They're very honest about saying, now you don't have a case.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Uh, I know them, and uh so go to handle
on the law dot com.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
And just just see where they go there.
Speaker 13 (25:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Uh, if you notice what he sure insisted that he
was straight a lot, didn't he? I mean, he was adamant.
Now protests too much? You got that. Now.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I want to tell you a little bit about pain.
If you hurt, or you know someone who hurt and
hurts all the time, chronic pain, let me suggest listening
to the Pain Game podcast. The Pain Game podcast is
about people living in pain or those that have trauma
that cause pain, and the guests have lived with, dealt
(26:17):
with treated these people and the host Lindsay Soprano deals
with chronic pain twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I've known her for seven years.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Now, and she has this hell of a pain Game podcast,
this podcast, and every episode ends with a message of hope.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Now I would tell you your life is over, just
suck it up. She doesn't.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
She actually gives a lot of hope and really does
a lot of help. Season three is about to happen,
So listen to the Pain Game podcast wherever you listen
to podcasts, the Pain Game podcasts.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
This is Handle on the Law, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Back, and this is on Marginal Legal Advice, where I
tell you you have absolutely no case. Jacob, you've been
up there for a bit. Hello Jacob, welcome.
Speaker 13 (27:09):
Hey Bill, how are you horrible?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
But let's go on with your question.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Okay, I was injured while working for the County of
Los Angeles. I fell off of a roof and sustained
some injury on my neck and so forth.
Speaker 13 (27:28):
I've taken to the hospital blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
They said my neck was up by six millimeters and
now I'm having trouble.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Okay, medical trouble.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
And originally when you went to the hospital the first
time out, the doctor diagnosed you with blah blah blah.
I got it, all right, what were you doing on
a roof working for the county? I'm just curious.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Well, I was a field engineer in some.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I was just wondering, that's it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I mean, just you know, make sure that it was
a legitimate county business that you were doing, which certainly
sounds like. All right, So this is years later, right,
and all of a sudden this thing goes south on
you correct?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, I think you definitely have an issue with the disability.
There's no question you need a disability attorney because that's
pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
How old are you?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh wow, well yeah, because you're ready. No, no, no, no,
I think that's great. No, no, don't misunderstand.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Are you working? Are you working now?
Speaker 5 (28:39):
No?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Okay, you're retired to see that is the oh wow part.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
And because you're disabled and you can't work is what
disability is about. Okay, either permanently disabled or you've got
a short term disability, workers comp.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Etcetera. But you're not working.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
So what you have and I will be employed by FEMA?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah well yeah, but if you're going to be employed,
you can't argue that you can't be employed.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
So I think the disability part is a little tough.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
And as far as any lawsuit, you can't because.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Disability at least this is federal, No, this.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Is county, right, and I don't know about the government
private industry.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
It's no fault where it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You can't sue, especially in this case for damages against
the state, which is workers cotton disability.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Theoretically you could see the.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Homeowner for the injury, but as far as the homeowner
or a previous roofing contractor or who screwed it up
and caused your injury, you know your way down the line,
the statue of limitations is over.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
So at the bottom line, you're kind of screwed. What
are you gonna do for FEMA, I'm.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Not sure yet, Just do so filled observations and damage assessment.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Okay, Well, here's okay legal advice to you.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Don't get involved in going on roofs because that's not
a good idea for you.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Paul, Hello, Paul, welcome.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Yes, Hi, this case is about identity theft and basically
someone stole my identity and actually my contractor's license, and
they went out and did a job project and they
basically stole seventy thousand dollars cash from the homeowner. Okay,
(30:41):
when I explained to the CSLB that this was I
didn't do this, that he stole my license, they didn't
believe me. Basically, they met the California State Attorney General,
so I went around around explaining to him. Then they
didn't buy it. They prosecuted me anyway.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Wow, hold on a minute, and so there it is.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
There is a contract, there's the license, and there is
the contract itself with the homeowner.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
That that signature was so close to.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
What your signature is that you can't easily prove that,
ain't you or you never did the job, or the
homeowner never met you and would say I don't know
who you are.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
None of that happened.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Yeah, my signature isn't even he didn't even fake my signature.
He used another company.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Okay, that's that's weird.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And how about the homeowner, the homeowner recognized you.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
The homeowner was in on it too.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh boy, yeah, you've got you've got you've got problems
if the homeowner was in on it too. Wait a minute,
the seventy dollars was stolen from the homeowner.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I don't understand how it turns out. That turns out
that the the rodster was duped her and me.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Okay, all right, well all right, so you were prosecuted.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Were you convicted? Were you convicted?
Speaker 6 (32:11):
There's more?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
No, I don't have time for more. I assumed.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Okay, I got it. It was all set up. Were
you convicted?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Yeah, it was all set up. So I appealed, I went,
I won.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Were you convicted? Were you convicted of a crime? No?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Okay, So it was an administrative decision made by the
Contractor's license Board.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
All right, you appealed it, and what happened?
Speaker 6 (32:34):
I won in superior court.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Good.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
So now what now? There? Now there because I had
to pay the seventy thousand to keep the license in Okay,
now what?
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (32:46):
So now I'm going after the Attorney General Contractors Board
for the money.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Okay, you can try it.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Crickets all right, so it wait, you meanus crickets on
their side. If you file a lawsuit against them, they
can't be crickets.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
They have to answer.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Yeah, that's what that's what's next now. But just trying
to make everyone.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, you're doing anything, You're doing everything you're supposed to do.
So what's your question, Paul.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Here's here's the key thing. I want everyone to know
of public awareness. The contractors Board falsifies information in order
to wait a second.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
As a general rule, they falsify.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
You know that in cases they falsified information.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Okay, in two cases they did. I don't know what
to tell you about that. So here, all right, you've
gone public and you've said the contractor's Board falsifies information.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
You've said that on the radio. I can't prove it.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Because this is an allegation you made.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
It could be true. By the way, I'm not arguing
it doesn't do you any good.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
When we went to Superior court, the judge call wrote
a whole Okay, I get it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
So that's that's what you go after. Okay, you see.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Them for that, and you take the judge's opinion. I mean,
you're doing everything you can do. Now, if you have
bad breath, there's not a whole lot you can do. Well,
that's not true. You can brush your teeth and you
can suck on a mint, but that goes away pretty quickly.
You know the bad breath is still there, and you
know within an hour or.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Two it's just horrific again.
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
The following is up pre recorded program. Here is something
that happened with the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
The Supreme Court passed on the chance to get rid
of protest free zones at abortion clinics.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And here's what's happening with anti abortion folks.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
They have not only have they successfully petitioned and finally
got the Supreme Court, a very conservative Supreme Court for
the first time in decades to overturn Row, but also
on a personal level, women going into legal abortion clinics.
Protests are outside and women are actually accosted. Anti abortion
(01:07):
people get in front of them, they block sidewalks, they're
abused and screamed at.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So what a lot of states have done is.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Set up these protests free zones where there is a
certain number of feet where protesters cannot invade that zone,
cannot go that close to the front door of an
abortion clinic, for example, have to be one hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Feet away from any woman who is walking in the door.
And so.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That was a two thousand decision Hill versus Colorado that
upheld that protests restrictions around abortion clinics.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
All right, that was the Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And now the Court has been asked to allow the
overturning of that law by pro pro choice ti abortion folks.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And what did the Court do.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
They don't want to get involved, They said, we don't
want to hear it, which means that those abortion free
zones are upheld. That those laws by the states that
say you can demonstrate, but not within X number of
feet you can't. You can certainly talk to people, because
that's the first Amendment amendment issue, but not within X
(02:25):
number of feet of the front door or the clinic itself.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And no surprise, because this is precedent.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Ledo, the two most conservative
members of the Court, said.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
They would have taken the cases.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
They have no problem and they would have voted to
overturn those laws, mainly because they're about as pro choice
as you can get, and they were the most anti
abortion and are the most anti abortion justices on the
Supreme Court. All right, let's go ahead and take some
phone calls. Hey Blake, welcome to Handle on the law.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Hey Handle, First time a caller, longtime listener.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I do.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
So.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I am a college student at a local nursing school
here in southern California. I am fully vaccinated. I've followed
all their mandates that they've required, and we just started
our last semester of school. And every semester they have
a checks and balance is to make sure that everyone's
vaccinated all that good stuff before they go to the
next semester. So where the problem happened is I was
(03:31):
going through this process and they said, you don't have
a recent twenty twenty five vaccination. I said, yeah, I
just got it in November of last year. And my
doctor said I'm still in compliance. And they said, does
it matter, go get one now or your drop from
the program. And I told them medical exemption. I said, guys,
this is you know, my doctor's telling me this is
too soon. You guys clearly have my paperwork. They said, nope,
(03:53):
we don't care. So I went and did it, and
then afterwards they said, hope's just kidding.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
There was a.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Typo in our paperwork and it was over. It was
an oversight that we required, you know, a lot of
folks to get one when they didn't need one. So
my question is, do I have a case against them?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Even though yeah, no, I understand you got a vaccination
that you didn't need. As a result of getting that vaccination,
you didn't need. Anything happened to you not yet?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Okay, well great, so why wouldn't we wait? So let
me ask you this. You know, did they screw up?
They did?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Is?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Are they responsible? Yes? Are they responsible for what?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
At this point, Blake, you're gonna go I don't know
if it's gonna happen to me or not happen to me.
And what are You're not gonna wait long term implications
of having two of these vaccinations. So the point is
they screwed up. They're not good people. And what are
you gonna get out of this money? I mean literally,
that's all you can sue for is money, Blake, And
(04:56):
how much does that work?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Gotcha?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, that's the problem. By the way, I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
In any way try to tell you that it wasn't
a genuine screw up, but it fell through the cracks.
And the good news is they didn't take off the
wrong leg in a surgery.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And I know you now.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Had they taken off the wrong leg and the surgery,
I would have been a lot more excited.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That is a good case for a medical provider. Carol, Hi, Carol.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Hi.
Speaker 9 (05:24):
Yesterday somebody called me and asked me if I were me,
and I said yes, And subsequently they also wheedled my birthday.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Out of me.
Speaker 9 (05:38):
And now I'm afraid that I'm put myself up for
a sam and I need to know how to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Maybe, but all they got was your birthday, which, Carol,
if I had your name, I can figure out who
you are because I know approximately where you live. You
know a city or estate, because that's out there. I
certainly have your phone number because I've just called you,
and so all right, so let's say you have a name,
(06:10):
and I have an idea which county you were born in,
and I go to that county, I pull birth records,
and therefore now you have a date there. You know,
I think you're okay because you didn't give them all
the information, but they're gonna have it.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
They have it anyway, Carol.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
They have my information, they have your information, and all
you can do is make sure you don't give anybody
who calls you any information on the phone, because legitimate
people asking for information will not call you unless you know.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
They're calling you. I just got a call from the bank.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I just did something on a docu serve and I'm
a LifeLock I'm a member of LifeLock, I'm a customer
and they immediately contacted me and on text.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But all they said is yes or no. You know,
did you apply for this yes or no? Just confirmed.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Same thing with bank transfers. My bank will ask me
if it's a substantial transfer. Bottom line, Carol, is you're okay.
I don't think you are any more danger than you
were before the phone call, but it's a lesson or
let me go the other way. Do you have a
house Do you own a house?
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Okay, it's gone.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, because they have your phone number, You're going to
be living in a dumpster.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Okay. Do you have a car?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay, good, so they can't get your car. Do you
have any money in the bank? Lots?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Okay, come Monday morning. If you check, you won't have
any money left they've taken at all. Just kidding you, Carol,
don't worry about it. Okay, You're going to be fine, you.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Know, if Carol, you see, I told her, Just kidding now.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
If Carol was not one hundred and forty years old,
I would have gone right to the edge on that one.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But you know, today I have a heart. I mean,
can you imagine I actually have a heart? All right?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Talking about having a heart and caring about people who
live in chronic pain. And the reason I care is
I happen to live with someone who lives in serious
chronic pain. And she has a podcast about pain. It's
called The Pain Game Podcast, and it's about people who
(08:24):
deal with treated people that live in pain all day long.
And she has pain all day long and deals with
it and heroically, and every episode ends with a message
of hope. I would do it differently, but she does
it in terms of there's hope for you, hope for
the people you know and love. So listen to The
(08:45):
Pain Game Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, The Pain
Game Podcast.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
This is handle on the Law, all right, Let's get
through more.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Handle on the law phone calls here Susan, Hello, Susan,
Hi Bill, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
There's always a pleasure listening to you. So I have
a question, please. I haven't established f corporation for over
ten years and also a revocable trust. So originally my
husband and I were going to put all the three
properties we own into the corporation, but it ended up
(09:24):
putting them into the trust. But for years the accountant
filed our income tax as if the properties were in
the corporation. And now I wish to dissolve the corporation,
so I want to know where are there ramestications of
doing this.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
There are none.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
You can dissolve the corporation easily, and that's for one thing,
And you can taste take whatever property that you transferred
into the trust, since it is revocable, and change the
trust completely, so you've got complete power across the board.
So there really aren't anyifications. And to whatever tax ramifications
(10:02):
there are, you're changing it from the property owned by
a business to a property owned by a trust or
not a trust or goes back in your name. I
think it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And you want to ask your if you own everything,
if you own everything.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
You're fine. There's not a problem at all on that one.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Laurie, Hi, Laurie, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
This is a difficult question that has to do with
the immunity of a judge who's not on the bench,
and the judge does not wear a black robe. That
doesn't matter, okay, okay, Well, if you have proof that
a judge is committing criminal acts that are not part
of the scope of their employment as a judge, tacking
(10:48):
into websites, you know, can you see them for damages?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Sure in state or sure sure.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Immunity that a judge has that the bench has does
not include a judge committing crimes.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
That judge is held to whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Criminal acts as an individual, So that's not a problem.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Now did this happen to you?
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Okay, so the court or federal.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Doesn't really matter. But let me ask what were you
in front of the judge for and what did the.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
Judge doug This judge was never my judge.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Okay, just a judge, all right, judge, all right? What
kind of criminal acts did the judge do?
Speaker 10 (11:35):
Posting phony websites about me under my name, tacking into
the online computer system changing.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and Uh okay, so yeah, you've got
criminal acts going on in his mind.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Have you been damaged? Have you been damaged? How have
you been damaged?
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Well, in my personal life, my professional life has been ruined.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
By your Okay, how is your professional life.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You've lost You've lost clients, you've lost business.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yes, you can prove that. That's a lawsuit. Yeah, that
is a lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
But the answer is yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
So yeah, so we hire a lawyer and go for it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, judges are not immune. What if a judge commits murder, Well,
I've got an immunity. That's I can do that. Or
rob a bank, Well I'm allowed to do that because
I'm a judge. Now it doesn't matter the judges in
a black robe or not.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Oh okay, alex Hi, alex Hi Bill.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Me and my girlfriend are big fan.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So thank you, thanks.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
For all you do.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Sure.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Yeah, yeah, So my I was involved in the Eaton fire.
I had an apartment. It didn't burn down, but it
was in the immediate evacuation zone.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Our our unit now.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Is deemed safe to you know, go back. The evacuation
order was dropped. But we don't don't have any running.
You don't have any electricity and the gas isn't on yet.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
I contacted our landlord, the management company, to see if
we're still if we can get the rent pro rated
for the amount that we were, you know, displaced and
like evacuated, and they said that, They said that we're
still going to have to pay the full rent. There
isn't going to be any credit because okay.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You're talking about the management company said that, all right?
So how long?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So how long it has a place been uninhabitable that
you couldn't get in at all?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And now how long.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Is it you're allowed in but you have no gas,
you have no electricity.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
It was uninhabitable I want to.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Say, probably for like five days or.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So, okay, and how long okay, then you move back in,
and how long is.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It that you don't have gas for electricity? How long
have you been in there since the seventh? Okay, so
you've got you've got a few weeks. Now is the
landlord post to collect rent? No? Because you can't live
there all right. So with that being said, the law
says that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
The landlord isn't collecting or cannot collect rent, and if
you stop paying the rent, then the landlord may end
up filing a three day notice to pay rent or quit.
The landlord will not win. You will win the case. Now,
let's get practical for a moment.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
If, per chance, one in one.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Hundred, the landlord does win, and now you are evicted,
and the landlord is going to be able to get
three times as much rent for the property or more rent.
I mean there's certain you know, the state says no
more than ten percent because that's price gouging.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
But how long does that continue on? I don't know.
So how much are you paying you rent? It's nineteen
hundred all.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Right, and let's say you're out for three weeks, okay,
before it comes back to your normal.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
So now.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Effectively you're only within one week, So one week out
of nineteen hundred wherever that is six hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Do you have any place to go?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Yeah, right now, I'm staying with family, just couching.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Okay. Now let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
If you don't have an apartment, you're not going to
get one, not in the Eating fire area, not in
the Palisades fire area.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And then you have to just.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Figure out a practical approach. And let's say you win,
which you will, Okay, you will prevail. Now you have
a landlord that hates you and wants you out. Yeah,
that's now, that's the practical. Do you suck it up
and pay twelve hundred bucks in rent, especially when it's
(15:51):
not costing you any money because you're living with family legally.
I'm telling you you're on solid ground practically speaking.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
What do you do? Exactly? Yeah, so that is so
it's yeah, you're going to win.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But you know, winning may not be the best thing
in the world either either way, you're screwed, you.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Know, Yeah, yeah, either way.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But you know, the good news is you have your place.
You kept all of your belongings. You're not out there
scrambling for a place to live. Some people homeless, some
people living in shelters. I mean people who have money
who would never live in a shelter.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I mean it was a disaster. So there is the answer.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
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(17:16):
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Speaker 3 (17:30):
Is this yours?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
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Speaker 3 (18:01):
This is handle on.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
The law you're listening to bill Handle on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Back we go to handle on the law. Alicia, Hello Alicia,
A hi Bill.
Speaker 11 (18:18):
I have a question about my father and his wife
sold a property and kept the proceeds from the sale
of the house, and he didn't tell the adult executor
or the beneficiaries of the home.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Okay, I don't understand. Was the home and a trust?
Speaker 11 (18:42):
It isn't a trust, all right?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Who is the trustee? Is it your dad?
Speaker 11 (18:49):
Well, they were both listed as the trustees. Because this
is not the first marriage for them.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It doesn't matter. I just asked, was the property in
the trust name?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And what kind of power did they have under the trust?
Could they sell it and keep the money or who?
Let me ask you, who's the beneficiaries under the trust?
If they both die?
Speaker 11 (19:14):
Well, he had his beneficiaries listed as his children. She
had her beneficiaries listed as her children.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, So the property should go to the kids if
one dies. Well, if one dies depends on how the
property is held. But so they sold the property and
kept the money and you're one of the beneficiaries, yes, okay,
in violation of the trust instrument.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I'm assuming right, Okay? How much money do they keep
and how much did they sell it? For Alicia.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
About seven hundred and forty nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Okay, how much money do they put in their pocket?
Speaker 11 (19:57):
IM not sure the house was paid for?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Okay, then they put seven hundred and forty nine thousand
dollars in their pocket because it was one hundred percent equity.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, I would you know the particulars.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Since I don't do trust in a state, it's certainly
worth calling a trust in a state lawyer that there's
enough money there that the beneficiary is under the trust.
What he and his wife did is violate the terms
of the trust and kept money when they shouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Or if the money.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Is if the if the property is sold and the
money is put into the trust, as opposed to them
taking it personally, that they're allowed to do if the
trust allows them to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Do you have a cop Have you seen the trust?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
I have? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (20:46):
Okay, and say that specifically.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Okay, Well, it may allow them to do it, which
is why you want to talk to a trust and
a state lawyer and.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Show the lawyer of the trust, say here you go, and.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Here's what happened, and you'll get the answer pretty quickly,
and you may you may have a case and.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Uh, I don't know, Kelly, how unusual. I don't know. Hello, Kelly, welcome,
Hi Bill.
Speaker 12 (21:13):
I am the lead plaintiff in a privacy case against
a hospital for basically selling information from the hospital's websites
to Facebook and Twitter and Meta and all these different things.
So my question is that is where my medical group
is through that hospital as the lead plaintiff who's getting
(21:33):
sued by you know, big law firm for big money
because it's a big hospital, would they say, oh, you
can't use us anymore so I lose my doctors and
my medical group and all the things that.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Okay, well, let me ask this. Do you have insurance
through that hospital? Do you have private insurance? Or they
just say we don't want you as a patient.
Speaker 12 (21:52):
No, I have private insurance.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But they say we don't want we don't want you
as a patient.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
Okay, yeah, that's what they're saying, we don't want.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
You as a patient.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I mean they have the right to say no to
any patient. That's not a problem.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
However, because they're being sued.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I don't know, you didn't do anything wrong, you didn't
act out, so I don't think they would say no.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I don't think they would.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
It would just the optics of it are horrible, and
there may be some liability on that part if they
bounce you just for having filed a lawsuit, you using
your legal rights. So as far as I'm concerned, I
don't think so. But then again, do I practice that
kind of law?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Of course? How does that work? Greg? Hello? Greg? Welcome?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (22:45):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Oh ahead?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 13 (22:50):
Yeah, I am sixty five years old, officially certified handicap.
I have ploppy and the back issue post lamaectimyes syndrome. Anyways,
I decided to go to a get a pedicure here
like thirteen months ago, and then over roughly an eighteen
nineteen month period, I went maybe ninety ten times, and
(23:17):
my feet to be bleeding every once in a while.
One time I got home, I felt pain. Later that
night I looked and saw that it looked like you
sugar grind me to it. Anyways, take a long story short,
I got infected and I had to go December first
to the prompt Care. I put on antibiotics. I had
(23:39):
just soaked my feet three times a day and it's
just starting to get better. Okay, and you have a case.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Here you have a case. All right. First of all,
my first question is are you straight? Just a curious.
Speaker 13 (23:58):
Question give me and my gay Oh well.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
No, okay, because I've never I've never seen a straight
man have a pedicure in my life.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
You know that, don't you.
Speaker 13 (24:10):
That's for starting.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well, then you can't know if you get pedicures. You
can't know.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
If you get pedicures, you can't be straight. I'm sorry,
I mean I think that's the.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
They even tried to hook me up with some girlfriends.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Oh, okay, I'm you're and you're the pedicure, the pedicures,
the manicures tried to.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Hook you up with a girlfriends?
Speaker 13 (24:30):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Uh do you speak Vietnamese?
Speaker 13 (24:33):
I'm telling too.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Okay, all right, fair enough. Uh, this is a little
bit problematic for.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You because as it gets infected, as it hurts, you
could put on antibiotics yourself. And you've got to connect
the what they did to the infection, which isn't hard
to do. And how long when we talk about it
got infected, how serious an infection? Because you're doing fine
(25:01):
now or starting to heal, how long were you not healed?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I got all right, Well, you know what I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
If you have a case. It's one of those things.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, hold on, I understand.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It's one of those things where, uh there may be
negligence and they this cause injury. UH don't know. But
even if they did, are the damages strong enough for
a lawyer to pick it up? Let me suggest go
to handle on the law dot com and these are
personal injury lawyers and they would handle this sort of thing, and.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
They'll they'll tell you and they're very good. They're very honest.
They're very honest about saying, now you don't have a case.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Uh, I know them, and uh so go to handle
on the law dot com.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
And just just see where they go there.
Speaker 13 (25:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Uh, if you notice what he sure insisted that he
was straight a lot, didn't he? I mean, he was adamant.
Now protests too much? You got that. Now.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I want to tell you a little bit about pain.
If you hurt, or you know someone who hurt and
hurts all the time, chronic pain, let me suggest listening
to the Pain Game podcast. The Pain Game podcast is
about people living in pain or those that have trauma
that cause pain, and the guests have lived with, dealt
(26:17):
with treated these people and the host Lindsay Soprano deals
with chronic pain twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I've known her for seven years.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Now, and she has this hell of a pain Game podcast,
this podcast, and every episode ends with a message of hope.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Now I would tell you your life is over, just
suck it up. She doesn't.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
She actually gives a lot of hope and really does
a lot of help. Season three is about to happen,
So listen to the Pain Game podcast wherever you listen
to podcasts, the Pain Game podcasts.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
This is Handle on the Law, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Back, and this is on Marginal Legal Advice, where I
tell you you have absolutely no case. Jacob, you've been
up there for a bit. Hello Jacob, welcome.
Speaker 13 (27:09):
Hey Bill, how are you horrible?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
But let's go on with your question.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Okay, I was injured while working for the County of
Los Angeles. I fell off of a roof and sustained
some injury on my neck and so forth.
Speaker 13 (27:28):
I've taken to the hospital blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
They said my neck was up by six millimeters and
now I'm having trouble.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Okay, medical trouble.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
And originally when you went to the hospital the first
time out, the doctor diagnosed you with blah blah blah.
I got it, all right, what were you doing on
a roof working for the county? I'm just curious.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Well, I was a field engineer in some.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I was just wondering, that's it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I mean, just you know, make sure that it was
a legitimate county business that you were doing, which certainly
sounds like. All right, So this is years later, right,
and all of a sudden this thing goes south on
you correct?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, I think you definitely have an issue with the disability.
There's no question you need a disability attorney because that's
pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
How old are you?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh wow, well yeah, because you're ready. No, no, no, no,
I think that's great. No, no, don't misunderstand.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Are you working? Are you working now?
Speaker 5 (28:39):
No?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Okay, you're retired to see that is the oh wow part.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
And because you're disabled and you can't work is what
disability is about. Okay, either permanently disabled or you've got
a short term disability, workers comp.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Etcetera. But you're not working.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
So what you have and I will be employed by FEMA?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah well yeah, but if you're going to be employed,
you can't argue that you can't be employed.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
So I think the disability part is a little tough.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
And as far as any lawsuit, you can't because.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Disability at least this is federal, No, this.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Is county, right, and I don't know about the government
private industry.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
It's no fault where it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You can't sue, especially in this case for damages against
the state, which is workers cotton disability.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Theoretically you could see the.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Homeowner for the injury, but as far as the homeowner
or a previous roofing contractor or who screwed it up
and caused your injury, you know your way down the line,
the statue of limitations is over.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
So at the bottom line, you're kind of screwed. What
are you gonna do for FEMA, I'm.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Not sure yet, Just do so filled observations and damage assessment.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Okay, Well, here's okay legal advice to you.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Don't get involved in going on roofs because that's not
a good idea for you.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Paul, Hello, Paul, welcome.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Yes, Hi, this case is about identity theft and basically
someone stole my identity and actually my contractor's license, and
they went out and did a job project and they
basically stole seventy thousand dollars cash from the homeowner. Okay,
(30:41):
when I explained to the CSLB that this was I
didn't do this, that he stole my license, they didn't
believe me. Basically, they met the California State Attorney General,
so I went around around explaining to him. Then they
didn't buy it. They prosecuted me anyway.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Wow, hold on a minute, and so there it is.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
There is a contract, there's the license, and there is
the contract itself with the homeowner.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
That that signature was so close to.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
What your signature is that you can't easily prove that,
ain't you or you never did the job, or the
homeowner never met you and would say I don't know
who you are.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
None of that happened.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Yeah, my signature isn't even he didn't even fake my signature.
He used another company.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Okay, that's that's weird.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And how about the homeowner, the homeowner recognized you.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
The homeowner was in on it too.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh boy, yeah, you've got you've got you've got problems
if the homeowner was in on it too. Wait a minute,
the seventy dollars was stolen from the homeowner.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
I don't understand how it turns out. That turns out
that the the rodster was duped her and me.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Okay, all right, well all right, so you were prosecuted.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Were you convicted? Were you convicted?
Speaker 6 (32:11):
There's more?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
No, I don't have time for more. I assumed.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Okay, I got it. It was all set up. Were
you convicted?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Yeah, it was all set up. So I appealed, I went,
I won.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Were you convicted? Were you convicted of a crime? No?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Okay, So it was an administrative decision made by the
Contractor's license Board.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
All right, you appealed it, and what happened?
Speaker 6 (32:34):
I won in superior court.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Good.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
So now what now? There? Now there because I had
to pay the seventy thousand to keep the license in Okay,
now what?
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (32:46):
So now I'm going after the Attorney General Contractors Board
for the money.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Okay, you can try it.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Crickets all right, so it wait, you meanus crickets on
their side. If you file a lawsuit against them, they
can't be crickets.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
They have to answer.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Yeah, that's what that's what's next now. But just trying
to make everyone.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, you're doing anything, You're doing everything you're supposed to do.
So what's your question, Paul.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Here's here's the key thing. I want everyone to know
of public awareness. The contractors Board falsifies information in order
to wait a second.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
As a general rule, they falsify.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
You know that in cases they falsified information.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Okay, in two cases they did. I don't know what
to tell you about that. So here, all right, you've
gone public and you've said the contractor's Board falsifies information.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
You've said that on the radio. I can't prove it.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Because this is an allegation you made.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
It could be true. By the way, I'm not arguing
it doesn't do you any good.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
When we went to Superior court, the judge call wrote
a whole Okay, I get it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
So that's that's what you go after. Okay, you see.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Them for that, and you take the judge's opinion. I mean,
you're doing everything you can do. Now, if you have
bad breath, there's not a whole lot you can do. Well,
that's not true. You can brush your teeth and you
can suck on a mint, but that goes away pretty quickly.
You know the bad breath is still there, and you
know within an hour or.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
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Speaker 3 (35:07):
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