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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
The followings up pre recorded program.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
There is a Texas company that built this huge battery
storage plant at Moss Landing and it burned. I mean,
we saw this on the national news. It was covered
and it was a big deal. It burned in a
major fire last month. Twelve hundred people were evacuated. Highway
one was closed for three days. It was completely crazy
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out there. And what they're accused of doing, the Texas
company is rushing to build a plant cutting corners and
that resulted in unsafe conditions.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And this is part of a lawsuit of course. Now.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
The company, Vistra, is one of the largest electricity providers
in the US. It stacked one hundred thousand batteries in
an aging concrete building at a former PG and E
natural gas plant. It was a nineteen fifties era and
they built this facility five years ago inside or part
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of the plant and used a type of battery at
higher risk for runaway fires than other available technologies, according
to the lawsuit. Joe Katchit, who is an attorney fouled
a lawsuit, said it's an environmental tragedy that didn't have
to happen. Had they done a proper job, this would
never have happened. Had they set up a system for
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stopping any fire that could happen, this would never have happened.
This is a combination of errors. The officials for Vistra,
the company have no comment. Now people think, think when
a company has no comment or an individual has no comment,
that there's something wrong. They would say if they were innocent,
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they would say it not true. Once someone files a lawsuit,
your lawyer, their lawyer, especially in any criminal accusation, you
just shut up, no comment.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You simply have no comment and let them think what
they want to think. I mean, the last thing anybody
wants is a video of I didn't do it, and
you're nervous.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
No, no one needs that.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So companies are told by their PR people there is
no comment. They did, however, release a statement which happens
all the time on their website. We are committed to
doing everything we can to do right by our community
and are working in concert with federal, state, and local
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agencies to ensure public health and safety. Yeah, that's the comment,
is you do the We are looking at safety as
our primary point of our business. Whenever there's an incident
with a plane an air plane, the airline says, the
safety of our customers, of our passengers are number one priority.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Your plane just fell out of the sky.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The safety of our passengers is our number one priority.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
All right, let's hit some phone calls. Kate, You've been
sitting there and I know the way I'm going.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
To answer this, so I'm going to give it to you.
Even though I'm going to answer it the way everybody knows.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Okay? So this just happened within the last two weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
That don't know if that's important or not, but we
own a travel trailer and we were in the process
of selling it. The fridge that worked in the summer
wouldn't work, so my husband called out a mobile RV
tex who we had previously used a few years ago,
had no issues. ARB Tech lives in the same city
as we do. He said, oh, I'm on my way home.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I'll stop by. He did.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
The panel to the fridge is on the outside of
the trailer, so my husband was watching him as he's working.
He broke a fuse.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
As he removed the fuse, he said, it would either
be the cause of the trailer of the cause of
the fridge not working is either the fuse or it
could be a circuit panel, or it could be this, or.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It could be that.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
He said, I'll come back tomorrow, and he said, I
have to get the parts, so I'll get what I need.
Husband stayed home all day Thursday, all day Friday, stayed
by his phone. He didn't come or make contact. Husband
text him Friday PM to see if he was coming
Saturday because our buyers of the trailer were going to
come Saturday see if the fridge was working. He said
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he didn't, so he did not come or make contact
with us Saturday or Sunday. Monday of this week, we
texted him early in the morning, close to nine, Good morning,
hope you're okay. Can you please contact us if you're
too busy, let me know and I'll move on to
another service tech.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I hope you're okay.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
No contact from him, so we we call someone else.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, all right, So now what happened, By the way,
that could have been done in fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay, what happened?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What's up next?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
So he sends us a text the next day parts
will be returned, will send bill for service call and diagnosis?
What am I obligated to pay him?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I think maybe for his service call coming out? And
that's it?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Okay, I wouldn't even do that, Okay, you know, just
say no, sue me and say here. So he says
you just well, claims court for service call seventy five,
one hundred hundred and twenty five bucks whatever he charges you. Go, hey,
three days my husband sat over here. I'd sue him.
Did your husband take off from work?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Okay, so you know it's it worth sitting by the
phone for three days not being able to go any place?
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, just say no, you know, and see what happens. Boy,
that was worth a phone call, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I knew that was way, But she was waiting for
over an hour, So you know what do you do
with that? That's me being a decent guy. Wow, you
know what, I'm running a temperature. Clearly I have to
get a thermometer. Something's wrong with me this morning, Tom,
Hello Tom, welcome, Oh Bil, Yeah, you got to speak
louder Tom.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
I just just discovered, thanks to DNA analysis, that I
have a daughter from an affair from fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh musseltov. Good for you.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Too, thank you. The mother has passed on. I'm communicating
with this daughter via email through the system, and I
want to she's thirty some. I guess, oh, fifty some.
I'm sorry. I can't do the mad right.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So she's fifty years old? Okay, Tom, go ahead. I
guess we lost Tom. God, that was going to be
a good call. Fifty years ago, I had a love
child from an affair. Just found out about it. Okay,
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good call. Whatever the question was going to be. I
appreciate the story. This is handle on the law, marginal
legal advice. Right, so you we have absolutely no case.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Hello, John, you're up. Welcome to the show. I love this.
Hello John, Yes.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I can?
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Okay, great, I'll just get right into it. It's a
little bit embarrassing, but I think it's kind of a
big mess up on the okay point, I had surgery
rotator cuff surgery on the thirtieth of October, and it
came out of the surgery. You know, you're all loosy,
you don't know what hell's going on. You got your
arm in a sling. And I tell the nurse, hey, man,
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I gotta go, and she's like, well, we won't give
any details about when, what kind of a gender of
the personals about it?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Okay, wait, wait, wait, it doesn't matter, but I just uh,
just you know, kicks and giggles male nurse, female nurse,
somewhere in between a male nurse, male nurse.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay, and so, uh, you gotta go. You have to
pee or beyond that, I gotta go.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
I gotta go pee, like you know, like I had
a cups of something like okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
That bath all right, so you gotta pee, all right?
Speaker 9 (08:42):
Now what he puts the.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Urinal under my gown. He's like, all right, there it is, go,
I can go for it. And I'm like, yeah, it's sorry,
it's still not happening. And then he says, well, why
don't there's a bathroom over there, Why don't you go
to the bathroom and use the bathroom? So you know,
I'm bumble stumble like a drunk man who in the
bathroom and still got the arm in a sling. It's
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still not happening. Nothing's happening. I can't go, trying hard.
You know, I'm surprised I didn't blow something up, but
I'm still trying. And I come back and tell him
the guy, you know, hey, man, I still can't go,
and then he's like, you're right here. And then I
go home. And then about four hours later, when I'm
like a cat on a hot tin roof, go back
to er. You had to put the catheter in. And
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I don't think ever in my life I would have
looked at a Catherine and thought to myself, oh my god,
I want that so bad.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
But that's how it was.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Okay, so, uh you know what, Now, let me ask you,
you try to if you had succeeded in peeing in
the bathroom. Of course, because your hands in his sling,
you're gonna miss and you were gonna make the bathroom
a god awful mess. Uh So okay, so you can't
pee uh. And then finally and you're yeah, and you
can't pee in a urinal you know those little plastic
things they put you could you could?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I don't understand.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
You couldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I understand, but you couldn't. Okay, I understand. So now
you move into the emergency room.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Why you'd go in the emergency room, the nurse can
put a catheter in. I've had catheters in when I
had surgery. You know, I've had a couple of surgeries
in the last five six years.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Catheter until I got out of bed.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
They put me in a car, sent me home. I
went home. I was walking around the house.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Did you have the sec Did you have your catheter
with you? Was it still in your body?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
No, no, no.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
They didn't put the catheter in until I went back
to the emergency room.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay, I don't get the emergency room for a catheter.
I mean that one is beyond me. Okay, So you
go into the o R to put a catheter in,
and and what happened.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
When it's like ten o' talk to me. You don't
just find the doctor's it's late.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You don't need a doctor to put a catheter in.
Nurses do it.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Okay, Well, probably a nurse did do it. But I'm
just telling you. The point of the story is is
they sent me home and I couldn't. I couldn't key
and then and then I had to go back to
the r Okay, Okay, couldn't they just put put one
in when I'm getting discharged? That's my point.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Because normally with catheter or they don't send you home
with the catheter, uh, you know, walking down the hallway
and into a car with the cafeter.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But okay, what's your question, John?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
My question is did they did they mess up?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Maybe? Maybe? But let me ask you something. Okay, Uh,
so there they go.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
They send you home with a catheter, which or they
should have sent you home with the cather I guess.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Okay, it's money. Now, how much money is that worth?
What do you think? Because all you could do is money.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
I had to pay the emergency room bill. They should
at least take that off the bill.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Okay, I mean that's fair, that's fair. How much was
the emergency room bill?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Who knows? At least two thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Could they?
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I know emergency rooms were dragged. Yeah, okay, you know
I'm gonna I'm not going to disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
If you had to go back because they did something
wrong by either putting or not putting in the CAF,
they're going to say, we did exactly what we're supposed
to do. And the problem is, you know who's going
to pick up the case for a two thousand dollars bill?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Nobody? Do you have insurance?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Do you have medical?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Hold on a minute, do you have medical insurance?
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Okay? How much is the medical insurance paying towards your
er bill?
Speaker 8 (12:24):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay? So now you have twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Out of two thousand dollars bill, and you've got four
hundred dollars left, and you want the hospital to pick
up the costs or.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Simply ignore the costs. Chances are you just ask for it, but.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, a small claims judge is going to give you
that because a small claim judge doesn't know medicine.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
So all someone has to go in and say, this
is what we do. Okay, do you want more than
the twenty percent?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
I want at least what they owe me, because then
I had to go to urgent care to have a Rebokay,
what O what do they owe?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You had to go to urgent care to do what.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
To have it removed?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You said you went to the emergency room.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
To have it installed.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh man, okay, I just I don't get this. I
really don't. I mean, I know, I'd love to talk
to you some more, but I just don't understand any
of it. But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Uh, Stevie, Hi, Stevie, welcome. Oh you know what, Stevie,
let me put you on hold. Okay, hell yeah, yeah yeah,
let me put you on hold.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Let me put you on hold.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I'll pick you up after the break because you have
a pretty interesting question. Okay, So I'll go back to
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Handle on Demand from k f I A M six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Welcome back, Handle on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice Stevie.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
All right, welcome to Handle on the Law.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
Yes, sir, so yeah, I'm an arm chair lawyer in
Oregon and and in Oregon it's very interesting. You can
you can do your thing. But in California, can I
just say, hell?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
What what?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
What does you can do your thing? Mean?
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Well, okay, that means that I can become a lawyer. Okay,
look for a firm. Okay, and because Oregon meets lawyers
right now, got it big time. But but I want
to practice in California. Ah, and I want to know
what the stipulations are here CALIFORNI.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Okay, Well we start with law school.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay, that's three years, and then you have the bar
exam to take, which is great fun having done that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Uh, and then you start to practice.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Now there's a very interesting exception to law school, and
it literally it goes back to the days of Abraham Lincoln.
You can actually apprentice to a lawyer and become licensed.
But that is years to do it is I've known
one person to do that just for the hell of it.
It is a very difficult process and so nobody does it.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
So it's basically like you said, it's an apprentice. It's
an apprentice. So once you become an apprentice, yes, then
do you qualify to take the bar exam after you
you No, I.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Don't think so. I think it's an I think it's
an apprentice process. But I'm only on one person. It's
almost impossible to do. You have to have you have
to work for a lawyer for years. There's all. I think.
There's a bull. You have to stand in front of it.
It's almost impossible. You have to go to law school
and take the bar. That's what you have to do.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
That's it, right, Because let's see, let's share one who
just takes the bar on the internet. You can't do it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So you can't take the bar.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
First of all, you can't take the bar on the internet.
You have to take it in person. For starters, they
don't let you take it on the internet.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
So what website would I go to to? Kind of like, yeah, no,
that's kind.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
No, that's good. Let me give it to you. And
that is I'll never be a lawyer dot com. Okay,
that's your that's your website.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
Why not?
Speaker 10 (17:36):
Mary?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Hello, Mary, welcome.
Speaker 11 (17:39):
Yes. I was exiting on off ramp waiting for the
light to turn green with other traffic. The light turn green,
I proceeded to make the left turn and a car
came sailing through on the red from the other direction.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Her.
Speaker 11 (17:57):
Now the insurance company is saying I pulled the video
from the city, and the insurance company is saying because
they couldn't see the green light, that I was ninety
percent of fault.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (18:12):
Green light was facing the off ramp where the camera
and the camera was on the same poles through.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
So let me ask, okay, so can you see the
green light on the camera, on the photo or the video?
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay? So you have no proof at this point that
in fact your light was green unless you have witnesses.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Right.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
The perf I have is that I have a video
showing all the traffic stopped and then all the traffic moving.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Okay, all right, so okay, okay, so if you okay,
so by deduction you can argue that look at the
way the traffic is flowing.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
The only way it can flow, the way it shows
is if there was a green light. Do I have
that correct?
Speaker 11 (18:57):
Correct? Okay? God? And there is with the off ramp.
There's all the dreen light faces the off ramp.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Okay, understood, understood.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
What's your question?
Speaker 11 (19:07):
What's your question?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Mary?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
What's your question?
Speaker 11 (19:09):
Yeah? Okay? Who do I shoot the driver or the
other driver of the car, the driver of the car
insured or the owner of the insurance.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You can do both, but you sue. You can pull
a license plate. Did you get the information?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
No?
Speaker 11 (19:23):
I got everything?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
All right?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, both you see the owner of the car. You
can see the driver of the car usually is the
driver of the car.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
And I'm eighty eight years old.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, okay, so you do that. Well, you're gonna do
that in the court. You're gotta go.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'm eighty eight years old, and you're the fact that
you're eighty eight years old.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
It has significance only in two ways.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
One is, whatever court situation, you can have it expedited
because you're considered elderly. And by the way, you sound
pretty sharp for eighty eight and you're still driving, which
is really.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Kind of neat.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Then the other issue about being eighty eight years old
is the assumption is that you are blind, you can't drive,
and you're basically demented, of which none of those things
you sound because you sound sharp as help.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You sound sharp at hell for eighty eight. So how
much damage to the car? Mary?
Speaker 11 (20:21):
Four dollars?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Okay, there's a small it's a small claim suit. It's
a small claimsuit. It's a small claim suit against the driver.
That's where it is the driver, not the driver. Sure,
why not? I'd see that you know what som both
what the hell the owner of the car and the driver.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And based on what you say, if if I'm the
judge and I'm looking at the case as you describe it,
and by the way, okay, let me I understand. I mean,
you'd have to bring the video because you can't just
say yeah. And based on the fact that and you're arguing,
let's deduce this, your honor.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Here is what's happening A, A, B, C.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
D and E.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It's almost like it's almost like a geometry question.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
If this happens, and this happens, then you have to
assume or you have to come up with the answer
of this.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
If A and then B, then it's going to be C.
So you got it.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I would give it to you for a couple of reasons.
One is, if that information is what you say and
approves the case. Number two, you're eighty eight, and man,
I'm impressed the hell out of you. I'm super impressed.
So it's small claims court.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I don't usually get that I usually make fun of
old people. Matter of fact, making fun of old people.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Let's do it again. Hi, Carolyn, welcome to handle on
the law.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yes, Bill, Yes, can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I can?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Now let me ask you how old you are? Carolyn?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I'm maybe seven?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Jeez, whoa boy? Worry? You know we're in the jackpot today. Okay,
and you sound great, by the way, Carolyn, all right,
what can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Okay? My daughter was visiting oh the weekend for my birthday,
and she said, I think I should read the living
trust so I know what to do in case she died.
So she was going through it, and she knew this beforehand.
When I did the will of the trust in twenty
twenty one, I divided my assets to my assets between
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her and my four grandchildren. So she had a fit
and said, Mom, why would you give them anything? What
if they grow up become drug addicts or shoot somebody?
And I said whatever her name. I said, that money
is for them, and she said, but what if I
get a divorce. When I heard that word divorce, my
heart jumped for dry. So I can't stand. I can't
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stand her husband have had different jobs and whatever here's
my question. She is the executor, and she wanted to know,
so I dropped dead. She comes here, she owns a book.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
What does she do?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay, first of all, based on what you say already,
she doesn't want to give the money to your grandkids.
And if she is a trustee, based on what you said,
get another trustee, Get another trustee. I'll tell you why,
because already she is a beneficiary as well as the grandkids.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Fifty to fifty I'm assuming, And she already has told
you she doesn't want to give the money to the grandkids.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
All right, And if she gets a divorce, by the way,
you can set it up where she gets nothing unless
she gets a divorce. I mean that you can do
anything you want with a trust. And it's your money.
It's your money, Carolyn. She has no business telling you
what to do with your money. You can distribute it
any way you want. Yeah, my trust, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'm sorry. No, let's go back to the original question.
Let's say everything was perfect between us. Okay, she's the executor.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
She's a trustee.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
What to do?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It says it in the trust, It's specific in the trust.
That's the way a trust does it.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Describes in specifice, idiot should uh what what she does
with the money.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
If it's a property, does she sell the property?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Does she transfer the property?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
If it's uh money, if it's stocks or whatever, then
they're to be sold or distributed whatever the trust says.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
That's what she has to do.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Okay, But does she need to get a lawyer?
Speaker 9 (24:23):
To you?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I would, yeah, I would. How much money have you
got in there?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Well, the house is worth close to two million.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And yes, yeah, yeah, you should get a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You should, yeah, because there's enough money there, just the
house alone, just the house alone.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I would get a lawyer.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yet absolutely, And we can go on and on on,
but yes, you get a lawyer. But but no, you
get a lawyer. This is handle on the.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Law exactly, or handle on the law marginal legal ad advice.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Daniel, Hi, Daniel?
Speaker 11 (24:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes, Hello? What can I do for you? Daniel? What
can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
My question is I've got a traffic ticket Illinois.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Everyone, and I'm wondering, can this affect me for getting
a passport?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
No, no, they don't care. Not a traffic ticket. How
how old a traffic ticket? Daniel?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Years old?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Oh? Yeah, that yeah, that's yeah, you'll get arrested.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
They're going to extradite you from California to Illinois for
a thirty five year old traffic.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
For you if they okay, if I went back to Illinois, well, uh,
I mean yeah, they can always arrest you, you know
and throw you uh you know, I mean put handcuffs
ers on you and then throw you in jail, you know,
pending a here in front of a judge for uh,
(25:57):
not paying a traffic ticket or showing up.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Daniel, are you gay by any chance?
Speaker 5 (26:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, well you will be after your stint there. No,
they're not going to throw you in jail, Daniel, they
are not. You are fine, go back to Illinois all
you want.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You'll be just fine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I mean if Daniel's case is a little bit different
because it was what you say, thirty five years forty five,
one hundred years ago. If it's a few years ago,
a couple of years ago, when you fail to appear,
then there's a there's a bench warrant, and of course
no one goes after you, but.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
They'll run it.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
You ever have noticed when you're ever stopped for a
traffic violation, right the cop pulls you over.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Can I see your driver's license? Please? Your registration? Then
the cop takes your driver's license.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I'll be right back, goes back to his or her
car and spends a few minutes in the car, and
then comes back.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And if you have a warrant, you're.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
In handcuffs and off you go. And yeah, it's not
the end of the world, but it's no fun. I mean,
you're not going to throw you in jail for five months.
And if you don't, you know, if you're clean, I'll
hand you back the ticket. Either write you or your license.
Either write you a ticket, or if you're lucky, just
say you know, this is a warning, get out of here.
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So uhum, thirty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
No, I don't think so. I don't think so. By rude, Hello, rude, Welcome, Good.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Morning, sir. My question is I have to explain. I
went to a small clan court for twelve hundred for
twelve five hundred in California. The judge was a substitute judge,
commissioner and experienced. He accepted the life from the defendant.
The lad didn't have a license to do the extra
car on plembing, and I had the cashier. I had
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the check that he cashed for both of them, and
he asked the defendant, are your licensed? He said yes.
He said, okay, that's done. I would like to know
is there any power beyond the judge?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Now you're basically done?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Unfortunately, I mean small claims court is almost a summary
judgment where judges get really weird.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You know, you can't appeal them.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I mean you can now not in those cases, just
didn't believe you and didn't want to see the documentation.
I mean what the judge should have done is he
doesn't have a license, and you know, and ask the judge.
You know, he should show his license. The judge says no,
I just believe him. There's not much you can do.
And unfortunately, commissioners, these guys are when you talk about commissioners,
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are actually lawyers.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
For the most part, you.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Could have asked for I think I think you could
say I want a judge or used to be that way.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
So you lost the case. Where are you from, by
the way, be rude.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
I've been listening to you for over twenty five years.
I'm getting my license for paralegal. I was born in
Persa Police got PhD from Michigan on the stage.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh my god, wow, got a piece. Where are you from?
By the way, one more?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
I was born in Perspoli.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Oh iran, Okay, I have to go really quickly.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Yes, sir, okay, I can I go after he's bond?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Uh no, no, you can't. You lost a small claims
court case. I mean no, you can't.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Unfortunately, if he's not licensed, then where's the bond, because
licensed contractors put up bonds, all right.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
There is a Texas company that built this huge battery
storage plant at Moss Landing and it burned. I mean,
we saw this on the national news. It was covered
and it was a big deal. It burned in a
major fire last month. Twelve hundred people were evacuated. Highway
one was closed for three days. It was completely crazy
(00:51):
out there. And what they're accused of doing, the Texas
company is rushing to build a plant cutting corners and
that resulted in unsafe conditions.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And this is part of a lawsuit of course. Now.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
The company, Vistra, is one of the largest electricity providers
in the US. It stacked one hundred thousand batteries in
an aging concrete building at a former PG and E
natural gas plant. It was a nineteen fifties era and
they built this facility five years ago inside or part
(01:27):
of the plant and used a type of battery at
higher risk for runaway fires than other available technologies, according
to the lawsuit. Joe Katchit, who is an attorney fouled
a lawsuit, said it's an environmental tragedy that didn't have
to happen. Had they done a proper job, this would
never have happened. Had they set up a system for
(01:48):
stopping any fire that could happen, this would never have happened.
This is a combination of errors. The officials for Vistra,
the company have no comment. Now people think, think when
a company has no comment or an individual has no comment,
that there's something wrong. They would say if they were innocent,
(02:09):
they would say it not true. Once someone files a lawsuit,
your lawyer, their lawyer, especially in any criminal accusation, you
just shut up, no comment.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You simply have no comment and let them think what
they want to think. I mean, the last thing anybody
wants is a video of I didn't do it, and
you're nervous.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
No, no one needs that.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So companies are told by their PR people there is
no comment. They did, however, release a statement which happens
all the time on their website. We are committed to
doing everything we can to do right by our community
and are working in concert with federal, state, and local
(02:57):
agencies to ensure public health and safety. Yeah, that's the comment,
is you do the We are looking at safety as
our primary point of our business. Whenever there's an incident
with a plane an air plane, the airline says, the
safety of our customers, of our passengers are number one priority.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Your plane just fell out of the sky.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The safety of our passengers is our number one priority.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
All right, let's hit some phone calls. Kate, You've been
sitting there and I know the way I'm going.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
To answer this, so I'm going to give it to you.
Even though I'm going to answer it the way everybody knows.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Okay? So this just happened within the last two weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
That don't know if that's important or not, but we
own a travel trailer and we were in the process
of selling it. The fridge that worked in the summer
wouldn't work, so my husband called out a mobile RV
tex who we had previously used a few years ago,
had no issues. ARB Tech lives in the same city
as we do. He said, oh, I'm on my way home.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I'll stop by. He did.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
The panel to the fridge is on the outside of
the trailer, so my husband was watching him as he's working.
He broke a fuse.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
As he removed the fuse, he said, it would either
be the cause of the trailer of the cause of
the fridge not working is either the fuse or it
could be a circuit panel, or it could be this, or.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It could be that.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
He said, I'll come back tomorrow, and he said, I
have to get the parts, so I'll get what I need.
Husband stayed home all day Thursday, all day Friday, stayed
by his phone. He didn't come or make contact. Husband
text him Friday PM to see if he was coming
Saturday because our buyers of the trailer were going to
come Saturday see if the fridge was working. He said
(04:47):
he didn't, so he did not come or make contact
with us Saturday or Sunday. Monday of this week, we
texted him early in the morning, close to nine, Good morning,
hope you're okay. Can you please contact us if you're
too busy, let me know and I'll move on to
another service tech.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I hope you're okay.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
No contact from him, so we we call someone else.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, all right, So now what happened, By the way,
that could have been done in fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay, what happened?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What's up next?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
So he sends us a text the next day parts
will be returned, will send bill for service call and diagnosis?
What am I obligated to pay him?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I think maybe for his service call coming out? And
that's it?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Okay, I wouldn't even do that, Okay, you know, just
say no, sue me and say here. So he says
you just well, claims court for service call seventy five,
one hundred hundred and twenty five bucks whatever he charges you. Go, hey,
three days my husband sat over here. I'd sue him.
Did your husband take off from work?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Okay, so you know it's it worth sitting by the
phone for three days not being able to go any place?
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, just say no, you know, and see what happens. Boy,
that was worth a phone call, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I knew that was way, But she was waiting for
over an hour, So you know what do you do
with that? That's me being a decent guy. Wow, you
know what, I'm running a temperature. Clearly I have to
get a thermometer. Something's wrong with me this morning, Tom,
Hello Tom, welcome, Oh Bil, Yeah, you got to speak
louder Tom.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
I just just discovered, thanks to DNA analysis, that I
have a daughter from an affair from fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh musseltov. Good for you.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Too, thank you. The mother has passed on. I'm communicating
with this daughter via email through the system, and I
want to she's thirty some. I guess, oh, fifty some.
I'm sorry. I can't do the mad right.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So she's fifty years old? Okay, Tom, go ahead. I
guess we lost Tom. God, that was going to be
a good call. Fifty years ago, I had a love
child from an affair. Just found out about it. Okay,
(07:24):
good call. Whatever the question was going to be. I
appreciate the story. This is handle on the law, marginal
legal advice. Right, so you we have absolutely no case.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Hello, John, you're up. Welcome to the show. I love this.
Hello John, Yes.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I can?
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Okay, great, I'll just get right into it. It's a
little bit embarrassing, but I think it's kind of a
big mess up on the okay point, I had surgery
rotator cuff surgery on the thirtieth of October, and it
came out of the surgery. You know, you're all loosy,
you don't know what hell's going on. You got your
arm in a sling. And I tell the nurse, hey, man,
(08:09):
I gotta go, and she's like, well, we won't give
any details about when, what kind of a gender of
the personals about it?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Okay, wait, wait, wait, it doesn't matter, but I just uh,
just you know, kicks and giggles male nurse, female nurse,
somewhere in between a male nurse, male nurse.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay, and so, uh, you gotta go. You have to
pee or beyond that, I gotta go.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
I gotta go pee, like you know, like I had
a cups of something like okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
That bath all right, so you gotta pee, all right?
Speaker 9 (08:42):
Now what he puts the.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Urinal under my gown. He's like, all right, there it is, go,
I can go for it. And I'm like, yeah, it's sorry,
it's still not happening. And then he says, well, why
don't there's a bathroom over there, Why don't you go
to the bathroom and use the bathroom? So you know,
I'm bumble stumble like a drunk man who in the
bathroom and still got the arm in a sling. It's
(09:05):
still not happening. Nothing's happening. I can't go, trying hard.
You know, I'm surprised I didn't blow something up, but
I'm still trying. And I come back and tell him
the guy, you know, hey, man, I still can't go,
and then he's like, you're right here. And then I
go home. And then about four hours later, when I'm
like a cat on a hot tin roof, go back
to er. You had to put the catheter in. And
(09:27):
I don't think ever in my life I would have
looked at a Catherine and thought to myself, oh my god,
I want that so bad.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
But that's how it was.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Okay, so, uh you know what, Now, let me ask you,
you try to if you had succeeded in peeing in
the bathroom. Of course, because your hands in his sling,
you're gonna miss and you were gonna make the bathroom
a god awful mess. Uh So okay, so you can't
pee uh. And then finally and you're yeah, and you
can't pee in a urinal you know those little plastic
things they put you could you could?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I don't understand.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
You couldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I understand, but you couldn't. Okay, I understand. So now
you move into the emergency room.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Why you'd go in the emergency room, the nurse can
put a catheter in. I've had catheters in when I
had surgery. You know, I've had a couple of surgeries
in the last five six years.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Catheter until I got out of bed.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
They put me in a car, sent me home. I
went home. I was walking around the house.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Did you have the sec Did you have your catheter
with you? Was it still in your body?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
No, no, no.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
They didn't put the catheter in until I went back
to the emergency room.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay, I don't get the emergency room for a catheter.
I mean that one is beyond me. Okay, So you
go into the o R to put a catheter in,
and and what happened.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
When it's like ten o' talk to me. You don't
just find the doctor's it's late.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You don't need a doctor to put a catheter in.
Nurses do it.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Okay, Well, probably a nurse did do it. But I'm
just telling you. The point of the story is is
they sent me home and I couldn't. I couldn't key
and then and then I had to go back to
the r Okay, Okay, couldn't they just put put one
in when I'm getting discharged? That's my point.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Because normally with catheter or they don't send you home
with the catheter, uh, you know, walking down the hallway
and into a car with the cafeter.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But okay, what's your question, John?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
My question is did they did they mess up?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Maybe? Maybe? But let me ask you something. Okay, Uh,
so there they go.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
They send you home with a catheter, which or they
should have sent you home with the cather I guess.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Okay, it's money. Now, how much money is that worth?
What do you think? Because all you could do is money.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
I had to pay the emergency room bill. They should
at least take that off the bill.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Okay, I mean that's fair, that's fair. How much was
the emergency room bill?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Who knows? At least two thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Could they?
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I know emergency rooms were dragged. Yeah, okay, you know
I'm gonna I'm not going to disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
If you had to go back because they did something
wrong by either putting or not putting in the CAF,
they're going to say, we did exactly what we're supposed
to do. And the problem is, you know who's going
to pick up the case for a two thousand dollars bill?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Nobody? Do you have insurance?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Do you have medical?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Hold on a minute, do you have medical insurance?
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Okay? How much is the medical insurance paying towards your
er bill?
Speaker 8 (12:24):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay? So now you have twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Out of two thousand dollars bill, and you've got four
hundred dollars left, and you want the hospital to pick
up the costs or.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Simply ignore the costs. Chances are you just ask for it, but.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, a small claims judge is going to give you
that because a small claim judge doesn't know medicine.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
So all someone has to go in and say, this
is what we do. Okay, do you want more than
the twenty percent?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
I want at least what they owe me, because then
I had to go to urgent care to have a Rebokay,
what O what do they owe?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You had to go to urgent care to do what.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
To have it removed?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You said you went to the emergency room.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
To have it installed.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh man, okay, I just I don't get this. I
really don't. I mean, I know, I'd love to talk
to you some more, but I just don't understand any
of it. But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Uh, Stevie, Hi, Stevie, welcome. Oh you know what, Stevie,
let me put you on hold. Okay, hell yeah, yeah yeah,
let me put you on hold.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Let me put you on hold.
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I'll pick you up after the break because you have
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Welcome back, Handle on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice Stevie.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
All right, welcome to Handle on the Law.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
Yes, sir, so yeah, I'm an arm chair lawyer in
Oregon and and in Oregon it's very interesting. You can
you can do your thing. But in California, can I
just say, hell?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
What what?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
What does you can do your thing? Mean?
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Well, okay, that means that I can become a lawyer. Okay,
look for a firm. Okay, and because Oregon meets lawyers
right now, got it big time. But but I want
to practice in California. Ah, and I want to know
what the stipulations are here CALIFORNI.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Okay, Well we start with law school.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay, that's three years, and then you have the bar
exam to take, which is great fun having done that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Uh, and then you start to practice.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Now there's a very interesting exception to law school, and
it literally it goes back to the days of Abraham Lincoln.
You can actually apprentice to a lawyer and become licensed.
But that is years to do it is I've known
one person to do that just for the hell of it.
It is a very difficult process and so nobody does it.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
So it's basically like you said, it's an apprentice. It's
an apprentice. So once you become an apprentice, yes, then
do you qualify to take the bar exam after you
you No, I.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Don't think so. I think it's an I think it's
an apprentice process. But I'm only on one person. It's
almost impossible to do. You have to have you have
to work for a lawyer for years. There's all. I think.
There's a bull. You have to stand in front of it.
It's almost impossible. You have to go to law school
and take the bar. That's what you have to do.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
That's it, right, Because let's see, let's share one who
just takes the bar on the internet. You can't do it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So you can't take the bar.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
First of all, you can't take the bar on the internet.
You have to take it in person. For starters, they
don't let you take it on the internet.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
So what website would I go to to? Kind of like, yeah, no,
that's kind.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
No, that's good. Let me give it to you. And
that is I'll never be a lawyer dot com. Okay,
that's your that's your website.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
Why not?
Speaker 10 (17:36):
Mary?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Hello, Mary, welcome.
Speaker 11 (17:39):
Yes. I was exiting on off ramp waiting for the
light to turn green with other traffic. The light turn green,
I proceeded to make the left turn and a car
came sailing through on the red from the other direction.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Her.
Speaker 11 (17:57):
Now the insurance company is saying I pulled the video
from the city, and the insurance company is saying because
they couldn't see the green light, that I was ninety
percent of fault.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (18:12):
Green light was facing the off ramp where the camera
and the camera was on the same poles through.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
So let me ask, okay, so can you see the
green light on the camera, on the photo or the video?
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay? So you have no proof at this point that
in fact your light was green unless you have witnesses.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Right.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
The perf I have is that I have a video
showing all the traffic stopped and then all the traffic moving.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Okay, all right, so okay, okay, so if you okay,
so by deduction you can argue that look at the
way the traffic is flowing.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
The only way it can flow, the way it shows
is if there was a green light. Do I have
that correct?
Speaker 11 (18:57):
Correct? Okay? God? And there is with the off ramp.
There's all the dreen light faces the off ramp.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Okay, understood, understood.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
What's your question?
Speaker 11 (19:07):
What's your question?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Mary?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
What's your question?
Speaker 11 (19:09):
Yeah? Okay? Who do I shoot the driver or the
other driver of the car, the driver of the car
insured or the owner of the insurance.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You can do both, but you sue. You can pull
a license plate. Did you get the information?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
No?
Speaker 11 (19:23):
I got everything?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
All right?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, both you see the owner of the car. You
can see the driver of the car usually is the
driver of the car.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
And I'm eighty eight years old.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, okay, so you do that. Well, you're gonna do
that in the court. You're gotta go.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'm eighty eight years old, and you're the fact that
you're eighty eight years old.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
It has significance only in two ways.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
One is, whatever court situation, you can have it expedited
because you're considered elderly. And by the way, you sound
pretty sharp for eighty eight and you're still driving, which
is really.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Kind of neat.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Then the other issue about being eighty eight years old
is the assumption is that you are blind, you can't drive,
and you're basically demented, of which none of those things
you sound because you sound sharp as help.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You sound sharp at hell for eighty eight. So how
much damage to the car? Mary?
Speaker 11 (20:21):
Four dollars?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Okay, there's a small it's a small claim suit. It's
a small claimsuit. It's a small claim suit against the driver.
That's where it is the driver, not the driver. Sure,
why not? I'd see that you know what som both
what the hell the owner of the car and the driver.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And based on what you say, if if I'm the
judge and I'm looking at the case as you describe it,
and by the way, okay, let me I understand. I mean,
you'd have to bring the video because you can't just
say yeah. And based on the fact that and you're arguing,
let's deduce this, your honor.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Here is what's happening A, A, B, C.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
D and E.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It's almost like it's almost like a geometry question.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
If this happens, and this happens, then you have to
assume or you have to come up with the answer
of this.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
If A and then B, then it's going to be C.
So you got it.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I would give it to you for a couple of reasons.
One is, if that information is what you say and
approves the case. Number two, you're eighty eight, and man,
I'm impressed the hell out of you. I'm super impressed.
So it's small claims court.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I don't usually get that I usually make fun of
old people. Matter of fact, making fun of old people.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Let's do it again. Hi, Carolyn, welcome to handle on
the law.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yes, Bill, Yes, can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I can?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Now let me ask you how old you are? Carolyn?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I'm maybe seven?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Jeez, whoa boy? Worry? You know we're in the jackpot today. Okay,
and you sound great, by the way, Carolyn, all right,
what can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Okay? My daughter was visiting oh the weekend for my birthday,
and she said, I think I should read the living
trust so I know what to do in case she died.
So she was going through it, and she knew this beforehand.
When I did the will of the trust in twenty
twenty one, I divided my assets to my assets between
(22:19):
her and my four grandchildren. So she had a fit
and said, Mom, why would you give them anything? What
if they grow up become drug addicts or shoot somebody?
And I said whatever her name. I said, that money
is for them, and she said, but what if I
get a divorce. When I heard that word divorce, my
heart jumped for dry. So I can't stand. I can't
(22:41):
stand her husband have had different jobs and whatever here's
my question. She is the executor, and she wanted to know,
so I dropped dead. She comes here, she owns a book.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
What does she do?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay, first of all, based on what you say already,
she doesn't want to give the money to your grandkids.
And if she is a trustee, based on what you said,
get another trustee, Get another trustee. I'll tell you why,
because already she is a beneficiary as well as the grandkids.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Fifty to fifty I'm assuming, And she already has told
you she doesn't want to give the money to the grandkids.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
All right, And if she gets a divorce, by the way,
you can set it up where she gets nothing unless
she gets a divorce. I mean that you can do
anything you want with a trust. And it's your money.
It's your money, Carolyn. She has no business telling you
what to do with your money. You can distribute it
any way you want. Yeah, my trust, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'm sorry. No, let's go back to the original question.
Let's say everything was perfect between us. Okay, she's the executor.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
She's a trustee.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
What to do?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It says it in the trust, It's specific in the trust.
That's the way a trust does it.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Describes in specifice, idiot should uh what what she does
with the money.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
If it's a property, does she sell the property?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Does she transfer the property?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
If it's uh money, if it's stocks or whatever, then
they're to be sold or distributed whatever the trust says.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
That's what she has to do.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Okay, But does she need to get a lawyer?
Speaker 9 (24:23):
To you?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I would, yeah, I would. How much money have you
got in there?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Well, the house is worth close to two million.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
And yes, yeah, yeah, you should get a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You should, yeah, because there's enough money there, just the
house alone, just the house alone.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I would get a lawyer.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yet absolutely, And we can go on and on on,
but yes, you get a lawyer. But but no, you
get a lawyer. This is handle on the.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Law exactly, or handle on the law marginal legal ad advice.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Daniel, Hi, Daniel?
Speaker 11 (24:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes, Hello? What can I do for you? Daniel? What
can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
My question is I've got a traffic ticket Illinois.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Everyone, and I'm wondering, can this affect me for getting
a passport?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
No, no, they don't care. Not a traffic ticket. How
how old a traffic ticket? Daniel?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Years old?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Oh? Yeah, that yeah, that's yeah, you'll get arrested.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
They're going to extradite you from California to Illinois for
a thirty five year old traffic.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
For you if they okay, if I went back to Illinois, well, uh,
I mean yeah, they can always arrest you, you know
and throw you uh you know, I mean put handcuffs
ers on you and then throw you in jail, you know,
pending a here in front of a judge for uh,
(25:57):
not paying a traffic ticket or showing up.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Daniel, are you gay by any chance?
Speaker 5 (26:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, well you will be after your stint there. No,
they're not going to throw you in jail, Daniel, they
are not. You are fine, go back to Illinois all
you want.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You'll be just fine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I mean if Daniel's case is a little bit different
because it was what you say, thirty five years forty five,
one hundred years ago. If it's a few years ago,
a couple of years ago, when you fail to appear,
then there's a there's a bench warrant, and of course
no one goes after you, but.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
They'll run it.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
You ever have noticed when you're ever stopped for a
traffic violation, right the cop pulls you over.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Can I see your driver's license? Please? Your registration? Then
the cop takes your driver's license.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I'll be right back, goes back to his or her
car and spends a few minutes in the car, and
then comes back.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And if you have a warrant, you're.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
In handcuffs and off you go. And yeah, it's not
the end of the world, but it's no fun. I mean,
you're not going to throw you in jail for five months.
And if you don't, you know, if you're clean, I'll
hand you back the ticket. Either write you or your license.
Either write you a ticket, or if you're lucky, just
say you know, this is a warning, get out of here.
(27:17):
So uhum, thirty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
No, I don't think so. I don't think so. By rude, Hello, rude, Welcome, Good.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Morning, sir. My question is I have to explain. I
went to a small clan court for twelve hundred for
twelve five hundred in California. The judge was a substitute judge,
commissioner and experienced. He accepted the life from the defendant.
The lad didn't have a license to do the extra
car on plembing, and I had the cashier. I had
(27:50):
the check that he cashed for both of them, and
he asked the defendant, are your licensed? He said yes.
He said, okay, that's done. I would like to know
is there any power beyond the judge?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Now you're basically done?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Unfortunately, I mean small claims court is almost a summary
judgment where judges get really weird.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You know, you can't appeal them.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I mean you can now not in those cases, just
didn't believe you and didn't want to see the documentation.
I mean what the judge should have done is he
doesn't have a license, and you know, and ask the judge.
You know, he should show his license. The judge says no,
I just believe him. There's not much you can do.
And unfortunately, commissioners, these guys are when you talk about commissioners,
(28:40):
are actually lawyers.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
For the most part, you.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Could have asked for I think I think you could
say I want a judge or used to be that way.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
So you lost the case. Where are you from, by
the way, be rude.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
I've been listening to you for over twenty five years.
I'm getting my license for paralegal. I was born in
Persa Police got PhD from Michigan on the stage.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh my god, wow, got a piece. Where are you from?
By the way, one more?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
I was born in Perspoli.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Oh iran, Okay, I have to go really quickly.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Yes, sir, okay, I can I go after he's bond?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Uh no, no, you can't. You lost a small claims
court case. I mean no, you can't.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Unfortunately, if he's not licensed, then where's the bond, because
licensed contractors put up bonds, all right.
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