High Capacity Magazines

Handel on the Law. Marginal Legal Advice.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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five three four. Eight hundred five two zero one five
three four. This is Handle on the law. Marginal legal
advice where I tell you have absolutely no case. The
Supreme Court, as as it is.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Comprised right now, pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Conservative six to three conservative, and you would think that
the Court would be so much in favor of the
Second Amendment. In a couple of surprise cases that were
filed with the court, the.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Court declined to hear arguments. They can do that.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
What happens the Appeals Court makes the decision, and then
it's appealed to the Supreme Court and the Court says, no,
we don't want to hear it, which means that the
decision of the appeals court now is in place. And
that's what happened with some Second Amendment challenges, two of
them involving semi automatic weapons certain ones and high capacity magazine.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
So right now, that leaves both of those laws.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
In place, which means that the ban on certain semi
automatic guns like the AR fifteen AK style rifles, that
stays in place. The ban stays in place, and those
laws or that law was enacted after the twenty twelve
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
A state resident, David.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Snope, challenged challenged it and wants to purchase those guns.
And he says, you're stopping me from purchasing those guns,
and I have a Second Amendment right to purchase it.
There was also a challenge to Rhode Island's ban on
high capacity gun magazines, and quite often the Court consolidates
cases that are very similar. The Court declined to hear

(02:28):
that challenge on Rhode Island's ban on high capacity magazines,
leaving that law in place. And when the Court says
we don't want to hear it. That's the decision to
not grant Cerciori. To grant Cerciori is the court will
hear the case, and they only hear about eighty cases

(02:49):
a year. Five thousand cases are in fact submitted to
the Court Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
They got no, thank you. Obviously, the vast majority.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
When they say no, they don't explain why, they just
say no. And that's exactly what happened. Now does it
break down in conservative versus liberal on the Court, of
course it does. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsich, Clarence Thomas.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
They dissented because they wanted.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
The Court to hear those cases. Why because they're Second
Amendment people. And as far as these three justices are concerned,
you could literally have an eighty eight howitzer at home
or a low grade atomic weapon at home, and that's
allowed by the Second Amendment.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I mean, they're kind of nuts in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
So a couple of cases, several high profile gun appeal
cases been filed over the last few years, and surprisingly
this Court has let the appeals Court decision stand, of
which the majority uphold the ban, saying no, you're not

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going to have these high capacity magazines. California, for example,
is probably the most strictest state where assault type weapons
not allowed, high capacity magazines not allowed, and at this
point those laws are still in place because the Supreme
Court doesn't want.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
To hear it. All right, let's go ahead and take
some phone calls here, let me see what we have here. Oh,
here's an interesting one.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Usually I don't take these hypotheticals, but this one is
too good to not accept.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Hello, Ali, welcome, Yes, hii Bill.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
My question to you is, I'm a legal resident of
the United States. I have my Green card, right and
I won't be coming up for my citizenship until twenty
twenty eight, I guess until the election next election, and
I want.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
To know my rights.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I mean if I get you know, obviously, with the
name I have and my visa was ANETA visa, so
it's not like I'm married a US citizen, I can
get it in three years.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Okay, now you have but but you have a you
have a green card now right? Yes, okay, you are
a resident alien. All right. By the way, which country
do you come from?

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Morocco?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Morocco?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
You're screwed, I know, yeah, No, you're actually not. It's
no different than any place else. Well, actually it's considered
an Arab country, Uh do you Yeah, although the food
I have to tell you I love Moroccan food.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I mean it's just phenomenal stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
I've been there and right, yeah, I know, the Atlas Mountains,
I mean, all of it, I've done.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
In any case, the fact that you have a Green
card helps you enormously. Can the government withhold the green card?
Can it say we're taking away the green card? They can?
It's really up in the air right now because you
have a government that's kind of crazy in terms of
people who are not American citizens. I mean, once you

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become naturalized, it's one hundred percent, Alie, no one can
touch you. You are an American citizen the way I'm
an American citizen because I was naturalized. You will be
naturalized as an American citizen. Until then, Yeah, the chances
are really small.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
They can turn around and say we're going to remove
your rights under a Green card, but you know it'd
be really tough for them.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
I mean when the courts have gone against the President
doing that, it was transferring to someone who was not
here on a green card. If you remember the guy
went to Venezuela, he was here on another it was
another visa. It was a humanitarian visa, which is pretty arbitrary.
So I think you're going to be fine. Your chances

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are going to be really, really good. What I would
do is I wouldn't wear your explosive vest out in public. Okay,
that gets a little problematic. And I wouldn't go into
a church or a synagogue screaming a la acbar.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
That I wouldn't do.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
But I sure that security clearance for Oh that helps, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
That helps. Yeah, Ali, you're gonna be fine.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
But you bring up a very good point where there
was no issue. If you had called me two years ago,
I would have said, come on, Ali, are you serious?

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Leave me alone?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
You have a green card? Not so much anymore anyway,
Welcome to America.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
What kind of business are you in that you have
a security clearance?

Speaker 5 (07:47):
Engineering?

Speaker 3 (07:47):
And I work with aerospace, got it?

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, you're gonna keep Yeah, you're gonna be Yeah, you're
gonna be fine. You're gonna be fine. Although can you imagine,
Oh here's a good one. Uh, Diona, Hi.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Diona, welcome, Hi Bill, how are you? Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
I actually put you in front of everybody because you
have a good question.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
So, first of all, whoever answered.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
The phone needs to replace their battery on the side detector.
That's where. But yeah, so I have a question about McDonald's. McDonald's.
I was drinking a coffee shake. It's like the coffee
ice shake. Yeah, And I found a piece of glass
in the coffee shake. So I put a piece of
glass in a plastic took it to the hospital because

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then I felt like I swallowed.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
A piece of glass.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
Went to the hospital, I had to have an end
of scopy upper end of scopy where they went down
the esophagus to the belly to make sure I didn't
swaddle a piece of glass. I didn't swallow a piece
of glass, but I didn't miss two days of work.
You know, afterwards, I was a little poor. I'm calling
mc donald's to see if you know, someone could call
me back, go and get compensated, at least to get
my medical bills paid. And the two days that I

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missed off from work, no one ever called me back. Well,
they called me back once and I haven't heard something again.
I keep leaving messages and seeking to people, and I
was wondering what I can do about compensation. Nobody would
take it because they won't get paid in their money.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, yeah, no, there, you're not gonna get any money.
But let's talk about some kind of compensation. I start
with the basic question. Did they charge you for that
milkshake that had the glass that bit of glass in it?
Or did you get that glass for free? Oh you're
still paid for it with the glass.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
See there you go. You should have just said no,
thank you. All right? So, uh, you know.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
I mean you can argue that you know, you you
were wondering about glass. The reality is, uh, you know,
most of the time when glass hits your stomach, it
just passes right through.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's really no big deal. Uh when there is glass.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
And that's medically speaking from what I what I understand
and I'm told. And so you went down, Okay, you
had an endoscopy. How are you out of work for
two days from.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
The anesthesia they put me on? They told me don't
go back to work for the next seventy two hours.
And the hospital is the ones that who really scared
me and forgetting the endoscopy because they're like, if it's
in u esophagus that can procreate cut.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, yeah, of course you tell me.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, good good luck because you know why because you
know what they charged for endoscopy. Yeah, thousands and thousands
of dollars. Yeah, yeah, that's what they do. You know,
I don't know where you're gonna go with McDonald's saying
no thank you and they're not.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
And they're not calling you back.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
You can't go to small claims court because the judge's
not going to hear a medical malpractice case. You know,
in terms of small claims court is do they owe
you money?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Do you not?

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Did you loan money? Did you finish the job? You know,
are the cabinets horribly done? You know that sort of thing.
So you have an issue where you got screwed, there's
probably malpractice there. No lawyer is going to take it
and bottom line, it's just one of those things that
happened and then it happens. You know people do well,

(11:06):
I have work at McDonald's and there is glass and
you know, I mean I once got caught. Well, well,
here's one thing I had a I had I needed
a root canal because I had a I had a
tooth that I had a very deep cavity in and
I was at a Carls Junior.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I was a teenager. I'll never forget that.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I bit on the cracker wrong and my tooth split
right down the middle and I had to have a
root canal. It happens, you know, Welcome to the world.
It happens, all right. Tell you what else happens? Your
bad breath? I mean we all have it. You know,
I just drank my coffee this morning. I smell like coffee.
I'm going to have onions in garlic today, which I love.

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I'm gonna smell like onions and garlic. And it's just
a part of life.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
And you know, I actually care about what my breath
smells like. I know that's kind of strange.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
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Notice I'm not calling it a mint. I mean it
is a mint because these little capsules that are coated
with a real good, strong minty coating. But you pop
two or three in your mouth and then when the
MINTI part is gone, you swallow in them or bite
into them, and the.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Partially seed oil of the capsules go.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
To work inside your gut in your stomach where bad
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Boy does it work. So most people buy the three
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Here's their offer until July fourth, twenty percent off the

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Speaker 2 (12:40):
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Speaker 1 (12:42):
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Speaker 2 (12:52):
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Speaker 1 (12:59):
This is handle on the law Marginal legal ad vice
where I tell you you have absolutely no case. I
had one year that I want to do. Okay, there
you go, Leslie. Hello, Leslie, welcome.

Speaker 7 (13:15):
Thank you, Hi Bill, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Sure, okay.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
So my husband passed away last December. He was in
the hospital for a few months and I'm getting calls
from he had insurance by the way, he had Medicare Medical.
But I'm getting calls from the hospital asking, you know,

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who is in charge of his estate and you know
he basically he had no money when he passed away.
But we're getting social Security from you know, the survivors.
I guess right, And I'm wondering if if they're going
to try to, you know, come after me.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
No, no, no, they're not.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
They're not.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
They can't. You're not responsible.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
I mean, they can say whatever they want to say,
but I would worry about it, you know, just say hey, yeah,
go ahead and just sue me.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Then, No, who I mean, who's who's asking for the money?

Speaker 7 (14:20):
I think it's like gone to collection.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
From the hot But but who's asking for it?

Speaker 7 (14:27):
It's like a bill collector, I think right now?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
But who's that? But I understand bill collector is asking
on behalf of.

Speaker 7 (14:32):
Whom my husband?

Speaker 6 (14:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (14:36):
No, who is the creditor? Is it a credit card?
Is it a hospital? Who is asking for the money?
It's a hospital. Okay, you're telling them to go, you're
telling them to go pound sand really yeah? Yeah, just
say hey, I'm not responsible. My husband he's dead. Not
leave me alone, you know, go talk, you know what,

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here's what you do? Did you bury your husband?

Speaker 4 (15:03):
No, he was cremated.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, where are his ashes?

Speaker 8 (15:09):
And we are going?

Speaker 7 (15:09):
Where can they have a scattering seven ceremony?

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (15:14):
Where I'm not sure yet?

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Probably Okay, good.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
So here's what you say. Hey, here's the address of
where my husband is. He is off the Santa Monica
coast somewhere. You go find him and you serve him. Okay,
all right, So that gets easy, doesn't it. Yep, Miles, Hello, Miles, welcome.

Speaker 9 (15:46):
My question is very simple, but I think it's complex
at the same time. I work for a big company.
Our employees to the company many times. I've worked for
this company fifteen years. They still under the class action lawsuit.
I'm sure you're aware that we only get pan it.
So the most I've gone, I've got three checks for

(16:07):
different reasons. The most I've gone fifty, Okay. Is how
difficult is it for me to step aside from the.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh it's easy, it's easy.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh, you just tell the All you do is tell
the lawyers and they're going to send you the documents
because you're part of the class. And all you do
is call up the lawyers say I want to I
want to remove myself from the class.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I want to opt out. I don't want to be
part of the class. And what is the benefit that
allows you to sue.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
On your own instead of as part of the class,
that enables you to sue as an individual.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Now does that make any sense?

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Of course that what what is the accusation?

Speaker 2 (16:50):
What is the company accused of doing? Well?

Speaker 9 (16:54):
One time, like I've gone three checks over the years
of fifteen years. One time it was for overtime paid.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
All right, So let me ask you this. Do you
is there a class action suit going on right now
against the company? Not now?

Speaker 9 (17:09):
But all right?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Then you wait, Then you have to wait.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Then you wait until the lawsuit is filed, it's been
certified as a class action. You will get notification that
you are part of the class action and just call
them up and say I don't want any part of it.
But on the other hand, you're going to have a
hard time finding an attorney. No attorney is going to
represent you as an individual, you know, unless it's a

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major medical issue where there are certain devices, for example,
that were manufactured defectively and you know, like arms and knees,
replacement knees and titanium, you know, parts of bodies. Yeah,
then you may want to bail out and say I'm
going to do this on my own because the damages

(17:57):
are so.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Great, But not in your case, you know, just take
fifty bucks.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
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Speaker 2 (19:53):
More Handle on the Law, Harold.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
Hello, Harold, Hi, Bill, You're the best.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yes, I am good point Okay.

Speaker 7 (20:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (20:03):
My neighbor was part behind the market in North Hollywood.
There was no cars, but he went in the Dreichs
to park in the back to do and he went
to do his shopping. When he came back out, the
car was towed away. So we did some investigation Bill,
and I think it was a steaming operation. It was

(20:27):
a private toad service in North Hollywood, and we went
over there to find out what happened. I drove him
over there to find out what happened. They made a
big excuse that wasn't parked properly. I believe that they
just took it because they thought it was abandoned bill
and it cost him five hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Okay, well let me ask you this. Okay, you're behind
the market and is there any sign there that says
no parking private property, that violators will be towed at
owners expense kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Was there anything like that?

Speaker 8 (21:02):
Whatsoever? M What is he supposed to do?

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, well you can small you can file on a
small claims court. That's going to be really difficult. And
by the way, it's not a sting operation. It's a
scam operation. This is what they do.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Just to let you know.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
When you talk about a private towing company, they're all
private towing companies and they cut deals with the owners
of buildings and even public parking.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
You know, when you park.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Let's say you park on the street cleaning days and
you're there and the cops pick you up, or the
cops ticket you and the and they tow you away.
That's a private company that towes you away, and it's
a contract that that company has with the city. And
of course there's a kickback involved. It just happens to
be legal.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
So yeah, this, no I understand, No, no, I get it.
It was private. It was it and what does he do?

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Well, you can argue that you didn't know, but they're
gonna say, hey, this is not public parking. This is
behind the market. This is not for people to park. Uh,
not for people to park. We're part of the public.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
This is just for us.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well, of course he got screwed, now what Yeah, yes,
I agree with you. He got screwed. That's the system.
And I think I can go to small claims court.
But I think you're gonna have a very, very difficult time.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
That's what happens.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
You know, don't park behind buildings. If there's a public
parking lot, park in front.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
Oh just.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
All right, Patrick, Hi, Patrick.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Good morning, though, good morning. I hope, I hope you
can understand that I have a little trouble.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
No, let's unless you do it slowly. Yeah, I think
I can understand. You will make that happens. You have
a medical issue.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, but I'm good now. But I've been separated from
my wife for thirty years.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
How long? Thirty years?

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah, thirty years.

Speaker 11 (23:17):
I looked for apart and my partner here passed away
just recently from als and I've contacted my wife about
my annuity, and I told her that I wanted to
hear it, and she said, that's.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Fine, you earned it, And I said, I sent her
the paper wharf.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
I sent it all up to her.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
It was just a matter of signing it, not the
rising and copy the not through tifer foot and should
do it? Well, I went on. She didn't do anything.
I hold her back. Now we won't should boss my
My phone calls and she won't do anything about it.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, no, I understand, Patrick. Well, you're tied away a second.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
You're entitled to all of it from the day you
separated from your wife. All she's entitled to is half
from the time you two got together Mary. But if
you were living together before that, right up until the
time you separated from her, after that, it's all yours, Patrick.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
That's for starters.

Speaker 11 (24:30):
The annuity was all done before we separated.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
I was done with.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Oh, okay, you bought the annuity with okay, got it? Okay?
Fair enough?

Speaker 1 (24:38):
So it does belong to both of you, all right.
And she refuses to sign it. Any particular reason why
she's refusing to sign it.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Patrick, She told me.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
The only thing she said was that her liberal representative
of somebody told her that she was afraid that animal.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
If she was the file for of gorse.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
And I didn't, that would be true.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, Patrick, I mean yeah, short short of a court order,
I don't know. Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Also, it could be and you have to.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Talk to who's ever holding the annuity, whatever financial institution,
and what do they say?

Speaker 4 (25:22):
They've said that sooner it's okay, So you can't.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
All right, there's no mechanism for you to get it
without her signing. Uh, Patrick, I think you got I
think you need.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
A court order.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
I think you need a court order apart and I
heard her for her orange salting.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, it doesn't matter. Sure you can see her, Yeah,
you can sew an orange count. It doesn't matter where
she lives.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Why where are the rounds of before order?

Speaker 11 (25:49):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Well, that you are entitled to half of the annuity
and it is time now to cash it in.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
You want the annuity to start paying, and she's stopped.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
You from doing something that you are legally entitled to do.
And I think I think Patrick, you're also going to
get attorney's fees on this. So there may be a
letter coming from some attorney that can help you. And
there are organizations out there that will do it for free.
You just have to look it up.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Especially, I know you need an attorney.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, particularly under these circumstances.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
I mean, you know, how do people not feel sorry
for you?

Speaker 1 (26:31):
You've had cancer, you have a hard time speaking, your
wife died of als. My god, you put all of
that together. So just do a little research and throw
in you know, low costs pro bono elderly representation.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
That should help. How are we doing it for time?
We're good, We're good.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Karen, Hi, Karen, welcome, good, Yes, ma'am am.

Speaker 12 (27:01):
I able to file more than once the same small
claims court against an individual. I have several debts he owes.
Can I file once?

Speaker 2 (27:10):
No?

Speaker 1 (27:11):
No, you got to consolidate him. You can't keep on suing,
you know, for the debt. Other than if it keeps
on going. You can sue if he keeps on doing.
For example, let's say you have I'll give you a
typical I don't know if it applies here. You got

(27:32):
a neighbor whose tree is the leaves are falling from
the tree and it goes to your swimming pool. You
have to clean the swimming pool, and you sue him,
and you get your money for the cleaning.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
The next month, you can sue again. The next month
after that, you can sue again. But it's an ongoing issue.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
If this is just someone that owes you money and
it's the same amount of money and you're going at
it several different ways, you.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Can't do it. Well.

Speaker 12 (28:00):
Can I tell you what the examples are?

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Sure?

Speaker 12 (28:04):
One of them is passed to rent that would be
owed to our LLC. The other one is he filed
a permanent application with a county and they're coming back
to me to pay for it.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
And so i'd like to Yeah, I think those are
two separate things. Yeah, I think one. Yeah, I think
those are two separate issues.

Speaker 8 (28:23):
I do.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
The court may want it, yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
The court may want to consolidate it, but no, I
think those are two separate issues.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Roger Hi, Roger, Hey Bill.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
My wife is a one person esthetician shop and she's
had the business for like four or five years. We
hired someone to do a website for us. They did
it through go Daddy, But we just got a letter
from a lawyer this week saying that one of the
pictures on the website is you know, their client copyrighted,
and they're saying that they're either going to sue us

(28:58):
or we could send them eighty five hundred dollars to
make it all go away.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh well, yeah, it's not special. Is it copyrighted? Have
they shown the image? The image to you?

Speaker 5 (29:11):
I think a bunch of paperwork with it looks like
it was registered somewhere. I mean, we didn't really delve
too deep into we're looking it all up, but it
did appear that they have paperwork that shows images have
some sort of copyright.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I mean you usually they send you a cease and desist.
What you have now is one of these law firms
that go after small businesses for technical violations. And what
I would do is say, go ahead and sue, Go
ahead and sue for copyright infringement.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
You know, knock your socks off.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
And in the meantime, we should just remove the picture.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you absolutely remove it. Oh,
there's no question, you remove it instantly. But then you say, what,
they're eighty five hundred dollars and will go away. They're
not going to you know what court is going to
give him unless there's a statutory provision. Uh, they're going
to say, yeah, you've been damaged eighty five hundred dollars
by one image for a one person as decision shop.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
How many images do.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
You use, Roger, it's two images.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Okay, they're claiming too right.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
Yeah, it's just too right on the front page. It's okay.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
And those it those are the only images that you use, okay.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
And you got those images from and you got those
images from where Roger.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
The web designer put them on there. We have no idea,
we don't okay.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Well, if you get if you get okay, if you
get sued, you go after the web designer.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
And I would and I.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Would definitely talk to a copyright attorney, trademark and copyright
attorney and by an hour of time or just ask
the question because I'm sure they'll give you a free
uh you know, just give you a free sit down
and answer the question. He may very well say pay
the eighty five hundred dollars or they say that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
So that one I don't know the answer to. But
the answer as far as.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Using those images, you stop right now. If you happen here,
here's something I want to talk to you about.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Is pain.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
I live with someone who lives with pain twenty four
to seven. Chronic pain, A lot of pain, and it
absolutely kills me. I mean, she's the one that suffers,
but I see it and it just breaks my heart
and there's almost nothing I can do about it. Well,
what she does about her chronic pain is she has
a podcast and it's called The Pain Game Podcast, and

(31:41):
this helps her enormously, and it helps other people who
are suffering from chronic pain and trauma. And she has
guests that deal with pain, experts in the field, people
are suffering, talk about what works, what doesn't work. I mean,
it's pretty comprehensive, and every episode ends with a message
of hope. That's so important with people with pain. And

(32:02):
the show is about giving pain purpose. I mean that
sounds weird, but it really is about that. And if
you listen to the Pain Game Podcast you'll see what
I'm talking about. It's the Pain Game Podcast. That's the
Pain Game Podcast. Wherever you listen to podcasts, you can
follow on social at the Pain Game Podcast. Season three

(32:23):
just started. Pain the Pain Game Podcast. This is Handle
on the Law and let's check in with do I
have my times right on this?

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Sam? Okay, let's go to break. We'll be back.

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That was my fault.

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All right, let's take another phone call real quickly. Ruben,
welcome to Handle on the law. Let me sorry about that, Hey, Ruben, welcome.

Speaker 8 (33:32):
Hey Bill, Yeah, ha, just started a street sweeping policy
after the third warning.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
They can tell you is that legal?

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, they can get it. Yeah, I know, damn it,
I know.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
And and if it's a private towing firm, you are
completely screwed. And it is a private towing firm, and
you're gonna pay hundreds of dollars to get your car out.
They actually hold it hostage. That's absolutely no fun. Hey,
sorry about being so late. I apologize. I actually went
in the other room just sort of lost track. So
I am continuing to take phone calls, So do not

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go away, and you can call after I come back.
And if you're on hold, just stay put. I'll get
hold of your phone calls. I'll just keep on going.
The number eight hundred five to two zero one five
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