November 22, 2025 • 34 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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in Mission Viejo on Alicia Parkway, and I will be
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Speaker 2 (01:29):
So come on out and yell at me.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Usually people do yell at me, and they handle you
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I don't know how you're making a living. Yeah, I
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really start screaming. So anyway, this afternoon, two to five
pm at the Wendy's in Mission via Ho, that's the
FOURK Report, Neil Savedra is broadcasting, and I will be there,
and so you have it. I will be there eating burgers,
just to let you know, and because I like Wendy's burgers,
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and I will not stop eating Wendy's burgers. So be
prepared for bits and pieces of food to fly out
of my mouth as I talk to you. The Wendy's
Mission Vieho two three zero two two Alicia Parkway. I
mean I assume you can GPS it or wave the
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the I use wave the Wendy's Mission via ho on
Alisia Parkway.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And the phone number here is eight hundred and.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Five two zero one five three four. For the kind
of advice that you deserve, Yes, all right, welcome to
handle on the law marginal legal advice where I tell
you you have absolutely no ca now in Australia. And
if you've ever been to Australia or you've been to
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a store that carries Australian goods, there is a product,
it's sort of a spread, spreadable product called vegemite, and
it's a yeast based spread that is absolutely disgusting, I
mean beyond disgusting. And eighty percent of Australian households have
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a jar of vegemite in their kitchen in a cupboard,
which I just do not understand.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I mean, if you ever have a chance.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's worthwhile to buy a jar of vegemite just to
taste how bad a food for human consumption can be.
So there is a prisoner that's in Australia and he
is suing the state ban on vegemite in prison none whatsoever.
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And you go, why that's like uh, saying no mayonnaise
in prison. I mean, it's simply part and parcel of
what we do.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Uh, the the prison says it interferes with narcotic narcotics.
Did detection? Sorry about that, narcotic detection detection does? It
is so disgusting. It has such a horrific smell that
even detection dogs can't stand it and they move away
from it. Also, Uh, it contains yeast band in the
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prisons because yeast is used in the production of alcohol.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Humm, seems to be interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So for those two reasons, Uh, no vegemite in the prisons.
So this prisoner is suing claiming that the withholding a
vegemite is U. Well, they're violating the prisons his culture
as an Australian. Now we're not talking about a culture,
for example, as a Native Australian, which of course they have.
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They have their version of their Indians, which are Native Australians.
It is literally you're removing You're not letting me enjoy
my culture. It's almost a religious argument. By the way,
what do you think the courts are going to say? No, absolutely,
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not no chance whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
All right, So much for that one. Let's definitely take
some phone calls here. Eric. We'll start with you. Hello, Eric, Welcome, Eric,
Are you there? Okay?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Eric?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Hello? Yes, Yes, my name is Eric. I'm from Oak Park, California. Yes,
see that I had a contract here working on my house,
and I never really signed a contract with him. He
was like somebody who was referred by a friend and
we just handed him some money. And then now he's
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not completing the work. He's going really slow. It's taking
you know, three, four or five months longer than he
should have. He's redoing our kitchen, and I'm starting to
worry that I don't have any legal recourse with this guy. Huh.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, let me throw a couple questions. I didn't really
sign a contract. Does that mean you didn't sign a contract.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I didn't sign a contract.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That's a yes or no? Eric? All right, now, how
much money do you have in this project?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
About eighty thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Is that the total price is going to cost you?
Or is that how much you're out?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
That's how much I'm out right now? The total cost
is almost twice that.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, got it, and so you're ahead of him. Eighty
thousand dollars. Well, is some work for the eighty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yes, yes, he's done. I had another person come and
look at it, and he said he's done about twenty
thousand dollars worth of work.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
All right, So if you look at just sheer numbers,
it's sixty thousand dollars that he is ahead of you.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Okay. A couple of things.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Number One, you are beyond a complete moron to be
where you are. You are on several levels of idiocy,
not just your basic idiocy.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And so here are the rules.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He is in far more trouble than you are because
there must be a contract in place, and he must
be a license contractor. If he is not, he is
in violation of the law. And if there is no contract,
he really has no defense. He can't argue I did
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the work, Eric said, I could take six months out
of contract.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
He can say anything, Hey, I went ahead, and.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
That's the agreement, the verbal agreement we have, and I
am not in violation. And then you stand up and
remember you're suing, and yes, he's in violation. Well, the judge,
all things being equal, the judge has to give it
to the defendant. In this case, Eric because you have
to prove your point. It's not just that he said.
He said, that's a pretty difficult place to be in. However,
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because he didn't have a contract with you, he can't
even bring defenses to court.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Is he a licensed contractor?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I believe? Okay. So I looked him up finally, and
he was part of a company that is licensed, and
I reached out to that company and they said he's
still part of that company. So technically yes, he is.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay good. No, No, it's not technically yes, the answer
is yes. So did he sign, Well, he didn't sign anything. Yeah,
you sue the company. Unfortunately, the amount of money you're
suing for is big enough where you probably need a lawyer.
I wish it was under twelve five hundred dollars that
you could do it yourself, where you go to small
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claims court and it's not hundreds of thousands of dollars
where you have no choice.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But for sixty grand, yeah you need a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Now, however, you're going to get a good chunk of that, well,
not a good chunk. A chunk of that goes to
lawyer's fees, because there's the lawyer out there that will
do it for a contingency.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You get the pony up money, but.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's not going to be that much because he has
no defense. So enjoy and call me again with you.
You'll call me again when you've done something other idiotic
in life, because I really like hearing these stories. This
is Handle on the Law and welcome.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Back handle here. It's a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
A quick announcement and Neil Savager with the Folk Report
from two to five this afternoon. He'll be at Wendy's
Mission Viejo on Alicia Parkway. I will join him and
hope to see you there. The phone number eight hundred
five two zero one five to three four eight hundred
five two zero one five three four and welcome back
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Handle on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice. Yo, Maria, Welcome
to the show.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yo. Did I say that?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I did?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Thank you, Yo, Maria, welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I have a question. I have this property that I
bought sixteen years ago, during the time I never look
in and to the people work I received from the
realtor years after. Recently this year when I found out
the property is not the same and it has my
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name on it and it has improof of the checks
I paid to the realtor, and so I contact the
realtor and I requested for a copy of the the
place I bought, so he gave me the real one.
I never I never mentioned to him that I have
a different home. So now why do I do when
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when the Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Okay, I'm a little confused. Your actual home, the one
you paid for. Who owns that home? Who's on title?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
That's myself?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, then you own the home. So I'm missing something.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I have in this case, I have people work from
two different homes.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I bought one home, and I have people work.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
For from from two different homes. One home that is
not my property.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Okay, so you own a home that is not your property.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That is correct.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
But I have all the signatures.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, Maria, that's not a bad place to be. That's
not a bad place to be in because you it
looks like you got a home for free.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
That's what it's thinking.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, no, you have a.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Free house, Maria.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Now, do you have an obligation to find who the
owner of the actual house is? Yeah? Probably. Do you
have a legal obligation? Do you have to do it
under the law?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Probably, But you're sixteen years down the road, and so
the actual owner is either dead or they don't care,
or are they going to probably find out if they
ever want to sell the house. And if they want
to sell the house, you know they'll get the house back.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Have you paid taxes on it?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Maria?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
All right, so someone is paying taxes on the home.
Otherwise the authorities would have picked it up. The state
would have picked up the house. So you know, you've
got an interesting situation. I've never I've never had this, Hi, Bill,
I got a free home?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
What do I do? Wow?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You know I don't get those every day when people
get free houses. You know, I would call a real
estate attorney just to find out what you do, because
I don't know the statues. There are the Statute of
limitations involved here. Probably there is which may have told
I don't know if that's the case. There is possibly
a statute where you have to make all either reasonable
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attempts to.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Find the real owner, or you have to.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Make beyond reasonable attempts that you have to aggressively look
for the owner.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
But if there is no owner out there, well, someone's
paying the taxes. Who thinks they own the property. So
you've got to you really have to. You've got to
figure this out. You've got to get down and real
estate attorney, real estate attorney time. And you're buying one hour,
You're buying a few hundred dollars, which is well worth it. Wow,
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never hand that question before. Interesting, interesting, you say the least. Carol, Hi, Carol,
excuse me, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Hi Bell.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Yeah, Hey, my husband and I are looking into getting
a will and trust prepared for us. So walking uptown
here in our town, we stopped into a local office
and to chat with them and get some information. They
seem very personable and knowledgeable. But their desks in their
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office are strewn with paperwork, piles of paperwork, and they
seem very disorganized. Should that be a red flag for.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Us depends on you know how important that is for
you or to you. I know of lawyers who are
superb and and they're disorganized as hell. It's just how
they operate. And I know there are lawyers out there
that are meticulous in what they do in terms of
their paperwork, and they're not the best lawyers out there.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I wouldn't be. I wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
If he's a good if he or she is a
good lawyer and has a good reputation for me, I
don't care. I mean, I've been disorganized. You see what
my desk was like when I was practicing law. It
was stacks of stuff. And I really was a very
good lawyer. And that's not me blowing smoke. That's me
actually having that reputation in the world of third party reproduction.
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And if someone had come in and said, oh my god,
you're a slob, I agree, I'm a slob. Did I
give good representation? I think I gave great So it
depends on how important it is to you. One does
not necessarily connect with the other, and you can ask,
you can ask. I mean, I've had clients come in
who hired me, and they've come in and looked at
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my desk and said, my god, you know you're a slob.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And I said, I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And is my paperwork going to go in that pile?
I said absolutely one percent. Now, I was a great
deal for people, but not necessarily. I don't know how
important it is. My wife, for example, is fanatic about
organization and being clean. If I leave one teaspoon in
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the sink, she goes ballistic. Okay, all right, now does
that mean does that mean I'm a complete slob? Well
less of a slob than I used to be, so
the better.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Ala.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I don't think they necessarily connect. That's a good question, though,
you know, what do you do? Let's see the lawyer
doesn't speak very good English. 's say it's a lawyer
who is foreign born and can be absolutely brilliant in
what he or she does. Well, okay, let's move on.
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This is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six FORTYFI.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Handle here, Good morning, it is Sae.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
What the way it is like?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Actually pretty good.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
The ring's going to be coming down later on and
then we have a whole week of this stuff. Phone
number now for legal advice eight hundred five two zero
one five three four eight hundred five to zero one
five three four back again. More Handle on the Law,
all right, Robert Ella, Robert.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Good morning. In twenty nineteen, I went to see my
car giorligy doctor and he said you need the pacemake
chief at the time was Corona and said, no, I
don't want this right now. And I said, what do
you take for the blood. I said, osprin one at night.
He said, no, take two at night, and that night
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I take two, and later on I collapsed and next
day morning I called the office. He said, I don't
want to see him. So I changed my cardology doctor.
About four months ago, I had accident. I went to
the emergency room and the doctor prescribed me that I
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have to put a pacemaker. After they done, they said,
after discharge, you have to contact with this doctor. I
called the office and they said the doctor will not
see you. He said, what is the reason. He said,
twenty nineteen. He refused to follow up our doctor, a
doctor in our group. He said, well, if it was
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your father had collapsed, would you see him again? He said,
that's it. I have two questions by law. Can he
refused to see me for Chekhov because one of his
group made a mistake?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And yes, give me, yes, he can refuse. He can
refuse to see you, he said.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
A second, then he collect the insurance and for the cope.
Can I refuse to pay him to copay or do I?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Of course you can refuse refuse him, but he's going
to sue you because you owe the money.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
He did the work.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Now did he ask for a copay?
Speaker 8 (19:29):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Did he submit to the insurance company for a pacemaker?
He didn't put in?
Speaker 9 (19:34):
No, he did, and he collected from insurance.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
But probably okay, yeah, of course you have to pay.
By the way, why did you wait eight nineteen? Wait?
Is that? Why did you wait? So this happened? What
six years ago?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And you you said no to the pacemaker And now
here you are six years later and the doctor says
you need a pacemaker, and go see the other doctor.
And the other doctor six years later, I don't want
to see you. Why would he be forced to see you?
Speaker 9 (20:05):
Well, to the hospital, choose the first they want to
put a not pacemaker, watch them on. I'm sorry, it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what they're going to
put in.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
But my question is, why did you wait six years
for what?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Uh? He said?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Okay, he said you need a pacemaker? You said no,
I don't want one. On what basis did you say no?
Why did you say no?
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Because that's Ronny said? What is the He said, you
get half that size? You said how many percent?
Speaker 10 (20:36):
You sit?
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Three to five percent? Okay, Corona? And I said, if
you get the corona is the same, he said, Okay,
I get a chance. I didn't want to free it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
With my That's fine. So you didn't want to Okay,
you didn't want it. You didn't want it. He suggested
that you didn't want it. You come back six years later,
you go, I want it now, No, not interested.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
I didn't want it. Really, I collapsed.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Do you have one?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Do you have a pacemaker?
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Okay, the second doctor put in your pacemaker? Correct, Yes, okay,
I get it.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So why would the first Why would the first uh
doctor be responsible for not putting in a pacemaker when
he offered and you said no, Why would he be responsible?
Speaker 9 (21:22):
It wasn't pacemaker? Said it was watchman.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
It was a watchman. I have no idea what a
watchman is.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Last I heard it's a walkman and it's a musical
device you made. I'm sorry you didn't make enough sense
to me for me to pick up that phone call.
You know, you got to make it quick and you
have to make it. Yeah, yes, no, Uh, it happens
all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
All right, Peter, you're up. Welcome to handle on the law.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Hey, I need a civil rights attorney to help me
do Los Angeles SHERI Department.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Okay, well they do.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I got red during the protests the June eighth, okay,
and then the second day they released me. But during
the time, I have no clue what's going on. They
arrested me.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
They accused me for Austin fire and the possession of
his process or something to start a fire. But but
but when they arrest.
Speaker 11 (22:22):
Me, I want a phone call.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
They didn't provide me a phone call. Uh. And there
were two detectors tried to talk to me, but I
said to them, if there's no lawyer, president, I'm not
going to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
So there was no lawyer, President, they didn't want to
talk to them. So you didn't talk to them?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Did they drop the charges? Were you ever charged?
Speaker 11 (22:46):
So?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So they so they raised in my house because they
have I have possessed something dangerous?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
What did you possess?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
What did you possess?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Or they just decided to raid your house because they
pulled your address out of a hat? Why did they
or why do they laid your house for the thing.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It's really looking for evidence to possession of postess or
something like that. And then my my.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
Wife got frecked out.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
He doesn't really speak English, called my parents. My parents
called the local criminal lawyer, and then.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
They refer to bail guide.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
The bail mounts about five hundred thousand dollars. We don't
have the money, so the bail guy is doing the service.
So we paid ten percent for fifty thousand. But later
on they pushed the court day to August eighth, when
when we show up the court so they say there's
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no information about the case.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So did they drop the charges? Did they drop the
charge they go to? Did they drop the charges?
Speaker 11 (24:03):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Okay, do you have a date? It was all right,
do you you have a date to do you have
a date to show up?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Now?
Speaker 11 (24:11):
I already went, that's the all good thing.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Okay, So what so what happened when you went?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
They say there's no information about the case and if they.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Dropped the case, they drop the case?
Speaker 11 (24:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
They say they still can look over the case within
a year.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Okay, So they let you go. They let you go?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, okay, And you want to know if you can
sue them for what.
Speaker 11 (24:38):
They have to pay?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
How how long were you in prison? How long were
you in jail.
Speaker 11 (24:45):
I got bailed out the next day.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Next day.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You paid fifty thousand dollars to bail out the next day.
That's an expensive jail trip. Yeah, okay, here's the bottom line.
If they had any kind of good faith belief that
you in fact violated the law or you were part
of protesting with the police, they can do it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Unfortunately, they can do it.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You can't sue them every time they arrest someone and
put them into jail and either up the charges.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
You know how many lawsuits would fly.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
That's every single protester who was picked up by the police.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It would be everyone.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
But here's the thing I talked to I consult I
paid two hundred dollars for a consultation with a different lawyer.
They told me that if they don't have anything against me,
then I'll just got released in seventy two hours.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Right, Yeah, but you got released the next day.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
No, I didn't got released to it. I got bailed
out the next day.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I paid them money, I got it all right, So
you may bail and so you couldn't even come. So
the seventy two hours you didn't even make There are
a lot of jail for three days and build out
day one.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Right, nobody told me about it. Police didn't tell me
about it. The criminal lawyer didn't tell me.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I don't think they had you know what, you know,
they don't have to tell you. You're on your own there.
That's why you that's why you call a family member
and the usually the bondsmen go to the jail and
find out. So your civil rights are violated because they
picked you up. You had to pay the fifty thousand dollars.
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You didn't say, you didn't say, So what do you want?
What are you looking for?
Speaker 11 (26:34):
I'm looking for compensation. I'm looking for you for.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
The fifty thou for the fifty thousand dollars, right right? Okay,
any other money that you're looking for?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
They told my car because I was a woolber driver,
a loss of a business, or they keep my phone
of evidence.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, so let me okay, hold on, hold on, hang on.
Loss of business? How much business did you lose?
Speaker 11 (27:03):
Two weeks of uber I'm not able to do the thing.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Okay, So that's part of your damage.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And they took your phone for evidence and they haven't
given it back to yet.
Speaker 11 (27:12):
Yeah, three three weeks? For three weeks, I got it
back LATERKA.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I question, why why didn you Why did you buy
another phone?
Speaker 11 (27:21):
No, they took my car for two weeks. They told
the car for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
No, I understand, but you said they took your phone. Also,
you know what, I don't think you have much of
a case. But and when a two hundred dollars lawyer
gives you a consultation, how long were you with the lawyer?
Speaker 11 (27:38):
This one day? Just one day?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Do this a full day? That's you got a great deal.
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Do I think your civil rights have been violated? I
don't think so. But I'm not a civil rights lawyer.
So I'm going to suggest you go to another civil
rights lawyer or another civil rights lawyer. And if three
or four say no, there ain't much there, or a
couple say yes, write a check and you start paying
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for it, then you're going to be out a lot
of money.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yes, yeah, it's good faith.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And they're doing this all the time, especially now in
the world of politics.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It's in the political scene right now. I don't think
you have much there.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I don't think so, but it's certainly worth contacting another
civil rights lawyer. If you went to one who says
you don't have a case. I don't know why you
wouldn't go to a second one and a third one.
I would, especially being out fifty thousand dollars, especially being
in prison, especially being arrested and having a court date.
That they went ahead and continued and didn't drop it
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so they could open it up for a year. Yeah,
but they're not going forward with it. And when I
asked you did they drop the case, you say, I
don't know. You can find out. You call the DA's office.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
They'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It's complicated stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It is.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
This is handle on the law, KFI handle here. It
is a Saturday morning, eight hundred and five two zero
one five three four. Let's do it more. Handle on
the law. Marginal legal advice is that soresh? Do I
have that right?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Thresh? Are you there?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (29:26):
Okay, go ahead, okay, So s yeah, I forgot my question.
I was waiting for thirty minutes. So yeah. So I
I offered to buy a house, gave a deposit, and
my loan was denied later because I own another house
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which need to be sold before I can get another loan.
So I requested for a deposit back, but the seller
is asked me to pay the present of it. I
want to know if I have any chance.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Okay, got it, all.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Right, I understood.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So you put a deposit on a house. You can't
close on the house because it was contingent on the
sale of this other house, and the seller wants fifty
percent of your deposit.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Depends on how the escrow was written, sir USh.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
If if money goes hard, which means that your deposit it,
that means it's done, whether the sale happens or not,
unless the buyer, unless the seller is responsible. If you
bail out, you change your mind. Effectively, you've changed your mind,
is what happened? Because you couldn't get the loan? How
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was the escrow written?
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Yeah, there's no contingency.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
No contingency. Well, I mean you can sue. You can
sue and say I want my money back, and the
deal has effectively been and has been broken, and they're
going to say you paid your deposit and it's your
problem that you couldn't get the sale.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
So it's you're up in the air.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And I don't know, this is your California I don't
know how California law works. I'm willing to bet that, Yeah,
I'm willing to.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Bet you probably ate your deposit back. I think you do.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But you want, you want to look this up and
you can go on the internet. You can do a
web search on that in terms of deposits home statutes.
But yeah, I can't imagine you you bought a house
without any contingencies about well unless you say it's uh,
it's contingent on the sale and you didn't come up
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with it, and they're gonna say you didn't you didn't breach.
Now there, you're responsible for any damages that they have
because you breached. And what are the damages? Well, uh,
they took it off the market. That was a little
speculative that they would have sold. It depends on the market,
depends on the sales price. There's a lot of there's
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a lot of issues involved. But sesh, you you are
the one that breached the contract. Keep that in mind.
Now that doesn't mean you don't get your money back,
but that's why you want to do that search absolutely positively. Ryan, Hi, Ryan, welcome.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
I have a buddy that is currently renting out a
house in California and he signed a lease agreement but
recently got hit with a bill for fifteen for utilities.
On the initial lease agreement, he agreed and signed to
pay the utility bill, but the renter the owner did
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not send out the utility bill each month like they
were supposed to. And just last month he received a
new lease agreement and it states on there we will
pay the fifteen dollars by next week. So he kind
of wants to know how he should go about that situation.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Okay, let me ask you something.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I borrow money from the bank and they have my
wrong address, okay, and it's not delivered to me, and
it took a year later. I got a free years.
I have a free year payment on the house. Right.
You see the problem. He has a duty because he
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didn't get a bill. He knows the bill is coming,
he knows he oels the money. Yeah, so he he
had a duty to track it down and yeah he's
going to have to pay on this one and just
make sure that it's that the bill receives or make
sure that it's available. And today it's all on the
net anyway. You can simply go on and see what
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Usually people do yell at me, and they handle you
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I don't know how you're making a living. Yeah, I
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and so you have it. I will be there eating burgers,
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prepared for bits and pieces of food to fly out
of my mouth as I talk to you. The Wendy's
Mission Vieho two three zero two two Alicia Parkway. I
mean I assume you can GPS it or wave the
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Alisia Parkway.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And the phone number here is eight hundred and.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Five two zero one five three four. For the kind
of advice that you deserve, Yes, all right, welcome to
handle on the law marginal legal advice where I tell
you you have absolutely no ca now in Australia. And
if you've ever been to Australia or you've been to
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a store that carries Australian goods, there is a product,
it's sort of a spread, spreadable product called vegemite, and
it's a yeast based spread that is absolutely disgusting, I
mean beyond disgusting. And eighty percent of Australian households have
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a jar of vegemite in their kitchen in a cupboard,
which I just do not understand.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I mean, if you ever have a chance.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's worthwhile to buy a jar of vegemite just to
taste how bad a food for human consumption can be.
So there is a prisoner that's in Australia and he
is suing the state ban on vegemite in prison none whatsoever.
(04:03):
And you go, why that's like uh, saying no mayonnaise
in prison. I mean, it's simply part and parcel of
what we do.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Uh, the the prison says it interferes with narcotic narcotics.
Did detection? Sorry about that, narcotic detection detection does? It
is so disgusting. It has such a horrific smell that
even detection dogs can't stand it and they move away
from it. Also, Uh, it contains yeast band in the
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prisons because yeast is used in the production of alcohol.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Humm, seems to be interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So for those two reasons, Uh, no vegemite in the prisons.
So this prisoner is suing claiming that the withholding a
vegemite is U. Well, they're violating the prisons his culture
as an Australian. Now we're not talking about a culture,
for example, as a Native Australian, which of course they have.
(05:11):
They have their version of their Indians, which are Native Australians.
It is literally you're removing You're not letting me enjoy
my culture. It's almost a religious argument. By the way,
what do you think the courts are going to say? No, absolutely,
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not no chance whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
All right, So much for that one. Let's definitely take
some phone calls here. Eric. We'll start with you. Hello, Eric, Welcome, Eric,
Are you there? Okay?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Eric?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Hello? Yes, Yes, my name is Eric. I'm from Oak Park, California. Yes,
see that I had a contract here working on my house,
and I never really signed a contract with him. He
was like somebody who was referred by a friend and
we just handed him some money. And then now he's
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not completing the work. He's going really slow. It's taking
you know, three, four or five months longer than he
should have. He's redoing our kitchen, and I'm starting to
worry that I don't have any legal recourse with this guy. Huh.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, let me throw a couple questions. I didn't really
sign a contract. Does that mean you didn't sign a contract.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I didn't sign a contract.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That's a yes or no? Eric? All right, now, how
much money do you have in this project?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
About eighty thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Is that the total price is going to cost you?
Or is that how much you're out?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
That's how much I'm out right now? The total cost
is almost twice that.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, got it, and so you're ahead of him. Eighty
thousand dollars. Well, is some work for the eighty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yes, yes, he's done. I had another person come and
look at it, and he said he's done about twenty
thousand dollars worth of work.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
All right, So if you look at just sheer numbers,
it's sixty thousand dollars that he is ahead of you.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Okay. A couple of things.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Number One, you are beyond a complete moron to be
where you are. You are on several levels of idiocy,
not just your basic idiocy.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And so here are the rules.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He is in far more trouble than you are because
there must be a contract in place, and he must
be a license contractor. If he is not, he is
in violation of the law. And if there is no contract,
he really has no defense. He can't argue I did
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the work, Eric said, I could take six months out
of contract.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
He can say anything, Hey, I went ahead, and.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
That's the agreement, the verbal agreement we have, and I
am not in violation. And then you stand up and
remember you're suing, and yes, he's in violation. Well, the judge,
all things being equal, the judge has to give it
to the defendant. In this case, Eric because you have
to prove your point. It's not just that he said.
He said, that's a pretty difficult place to be in. However,
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because he didn't have a contract with you, he can't
even bring defenses to court.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Is he a licensed contractor?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I believe? Okay. So I looked him up finally, and
he was part of a company that is licensed, and
I reached out to that company and they said he's
still part of that company. So technically yes, he is.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay good. No, No, it's not technically yes, the answer
is yes. So did he sign, Well, he didn't sign anything. Yeah,
you sue the company. Unfortunately, the amount of money you're
suing for is big enough where you probably need a lawyer.
I wish it was under twelve five hundred dollars that
you could do it yourself, where you go to small
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claims court and it's not hundreds of thousands of dollars
where you have no choice.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But for sixty grand, yeah you need a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Now, however, you're going to get a good chunk of that, well,
not a good chunk. A chunk of that goes to
lawyer's fees, because there's the lawyer out there that will
do it for a contingency.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You get the pony up money, but.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's not going to be that much because he has
no defense. So enjoy and call me again with you.
You'll call me again when you've done something other idiotic
in life, because I really like hearing these stories. This
is Handle on the Law and welcome.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Back handle here. It's a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
A quick announcement and Neil Savager with the Folk Report
from two to five this afternoon. He'll be at Wendy's
Mission Viejo on Alicia Parkway. I will join him and
hope to see you there. The phone number eight hundred
five two zero one five to three four eight hundred
five two zero one five three four and welcome back
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Handle on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice. Yo, Maria, Welcome
to the show.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yo. Did I say that?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I did?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Thank you, Yo, Maria, welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I have a question. I have this property that I
bought sixteen years ago, during the time I never look
in and to the people work I received from the
realtor years after. Recently this year when I found out
the property is not the same and it has my
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name on it and it has improof of the checks
I paid to the realtor, and so I contact the
realtor and I requested for a copy of the the
place I bought, so he gave me the real one.
I never I never mentioned to him that I have
a different home. So now why do I do when
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when the Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Okay, I'm a little confused. Your actual home, the one
you paid for. Who owns that home? Who's on title?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
That's myself?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, then you own the home. So I'm missing something.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I have in this case, I have people work from
two different homes.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I bought one home, and I have people work.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
For from from two different homes. One home that is
not my property.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Okay, so you own a home that is not your property.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That is correct.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
But I have all the signatures.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, Maria, that's not a bad place to be. That's
not a bad place to be in because you it
looks like you got a home for free.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
That's what it's thinking.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, no, you have a.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Free house, Maria.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Now, do you have an obligation to find who the
owner of the actual house is? Yeah? Probably. Do you
have a legal obligation? Do you have to do it
under the law?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Probably, But you're sixteen years down the road, and so
the actual owner is either dead or they don't care,
or are they going to probably find out if they
ever want to sell the house. And if they want
to sell the house, you know they'll get the house back.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Have you paid taxes on it?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Maria?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
All right, so someone is paying taxes on the home.
Otherwise the authorities would have picked it up. The state
would have picked up the house. So you know, you've
got an interesting situation. I've never I've never had this, Hi, Bill,
I got a free home?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
What do I do? Wow?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You know I don't get those every day when people
get free houses. You know, I would call a real
estate attorney just to find out what you do, because
I don't know the statues. There are the Statute of
limitations involved here. Probably there is which may have told
I don't know if that's the case. There is possibly
a statute where you have to make all either reasonable
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attempts to.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Find the real owner, or you have to.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Make beyond reasonable attempts that you have to aggressively look
for the owner.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
But if there is no owner out there, well, someone's
paying the taxes. Who thinks they own the property. So
you've got to you really have to. You've got to
figure this out. You've got to get down and real
estate attorney, real estate attorney time. And you're buying one hour,
You're buying a few hundred dollars, which is well worth it. Wow,
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never hand that question before. Interesting, interesting, you say the least. Carol, Hi, Carol,
excuse me, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Hi Bell.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Yeah, Hey, my husband and I are looking into getting
a will and trust prepared for us. So walking uptown
here in our town, we stopped into a local office
and to chat with them and get some information. They
seem very personable and knowledgeable. But their desks in their
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office are strewn with paperwork, piles of paperwork, and they
seem very disorganized. Should that be a red flag for.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Us depends on you know how important that is for
you or to you. I know of lawyers who are
superb and and they're disorganized as hell. It's just how
they operate. And I know there are lawyers out there
that are meticulous in what they do in terms of
their paperwork, and they're not the best lawyers out there.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I wouldn't be. I wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
If he's a good if he or she is a
good lawyer and has a good reputation for me, I
don't care. I mean, I've been disorganized. You see what
my desk was like when I was practicing law. It
was stacks of stuff. And I really was a very
good lawyer. And that's not me blowing smoke. That's me
actually having that reputation in the world of third party reproduction.
(15:42):
And if someone had come in and said, oh my god,
you're a slob, I agree, I'm a slob. Did I
give good representation? I think I gave great So it
depends on how important it is to you. One does
not necessarily connect with the other, and you can ask,
you can ask. I mean, I've had clients come in
who hired me, and they've come in and looked at
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my desk and said, my god, you know you're a slob.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And I said, I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And is my paperwork going to go in that pile?
I said absolutely one percent. Now, I was a great
deal for people, but not necessarily. I don't know how
important it is. My wife, for example, is fanatic about
organization and being clean. If I leave one teaspoon in
(16:31):
the sink, she goes ballistic. Okay, all right, now does
that mean does that mean I'm a complete slob? Well
less of a slob than I used to be, so
the better.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Ala.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I don't think they necessarily connect. That's a good question, though,
you know, what do you do? Let's see the lawyer
doesn't speak very good English. 's say it's a lawyer
who is foreign born and can be absolutely brilliant in
what he or she does. Well, okay, let's move on.
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This is Handle on the Law.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (17:15):
Handle here, Good morning, it is Sae.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
What the way it is like?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Actually pretty good.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
The ring's going to be coming down later on and
then we have a whole week of this stuff. Phone
number now for legal advice eight hundred five two zero
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all right, Robert Ella, Robert.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Good morning. In twenty nineteen, I went to see my
car giorligy doctor and he said you need the pacemake
chief at the time was Corona and said, no, I
don't want this right now. And I said, what do
you take for the blood. I said, osprin one at night.
He said, no, take two at night, and that night
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I take two, and later on I collapsed and next
day morning I called the office. He said, I don't
want to see him. So I changed my cardology doctor.
About four months ago, I had accident. I went to
the emergency room and the doctor prescribed me that I
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have to put a pacemaker. After they done, they said,
after discharge, you have to contact with this doctor. I
called the office and they said the doctor will not
see you. He said, what is the reason. He said,
twenty nineteen. He refused to follow up our doctor, a
doctor in our group. He said, well, if it was
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your father had collapsed, would you see him again? He said,
that's it. I have two questions by law. Can he
refused to see me for Chekhov because one of his
group made a mistake?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And yes, give me, yes, he can refuse. He can
refuse to see you, he said.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
A second, then he collect the insurance and for the cope.
Can I refuse to pay him to copay or do I?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Of course you can refuse refuse him, but he's going
to sue you because you owe the money.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
He did the work.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Now did he ask for a copay?
Speaker 8 (19:29):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Did he submit to the insurance company for a pacemaker?
He didn't put in?
Speaker 9 (19:34):
No, he did, and he collected from insurance.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
But probably okay, yeah, of course you have to pay.
By the way, why did you wait eight nineteen? Wait?
Is that? Why did you wait? So this happened? What
six years ago?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And you you said no to the pacemaker And now
here you are six years later and the doctor says
you need a pacemaker, and go see the other doctor.
And the other doctor six years later, I don't want
to see you. Why would he be forced to see you?
Speaker 9 (20:05):
Well, to the hospital, choose the first they want to
put a not pacemaker, watch them on. I'm sorry, it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what they're going to
put in.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
But my question is, why did you wait six years
for what?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Uh? He said?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Okay, he said you need a pacemaker? You said no,
I don't want one. On what basis did you say no?
Why did you say no?
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Because that's Ronny said? What is the He said, you
get half that size? You said how many percent?
Speaker 10 (20:36):
You sit?
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Three to five percent? Okay, Corona? And I said, if
you get the corona is the same, he said, Okay,
I get a chance. I didn't want to free it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
With my That's fine. So you didn't want to Okay,
you didn't want it. You didn't want it. He suggested
that you didn't want it. You come back six years later,
you go, I want it now, No, not interested.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
I didn't want it. Really, I collapsed.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Do you have one?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Do you have a pacemaker?
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Okay, the second doctor put in your pacemaker? Correct, Yes, okay,
I get it.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So why would the first Why would the first uh
doctor be responsible for not putting in a pacemaker when
he offered and you said no, Why would he be responsible?
Speaker 9 (21:22):
It wasn't pacemaker? Said it was watchman.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
It was a watchman. I have no idea what a
watchman is.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Last I heard it's a walkman and it's a musical
device you made. I'm sorry you didn't make enough sense
to me for me to pick up that phone call.
You know, you got to make it quick and you
have to make it. Yeah, yes, no, Uh, it happens
all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
All right, Peter, you're up. Welcome to handle on the law.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Hey, I need a civil rights attorney to help me
do Los Angeles SHERI Department.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Okay, well they do.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I got red during the protests the June eighth, okay,
and then the second day they released me. But during
the time, I have no clue what's going on. They
arrested me.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
They accused me for Austin fire and the possession of
his process or something to start a fire. But but
but when they arrest.
Speaker 11 (22:22):
Me, I want a phone call.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
They didn't provide me a phone call. Uh. And there
were two detectors tried to talk to me, but I
said to them, if there's no lawyer, president, I'm not
going to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
So there was no lawyer, President, they didn't want to
talk to them. So you didn't talk to them?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Did they drop the charges? Were you ever charged?
Speaker 11 (22:46):
So?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So they so they raised in my house because they
have I have possessed something dangerous?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
What did you possess?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
What did you possess?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Or they just decided to raid your house because they
pulled your address out of a hat? Why did they
or why do they laid your house for the thing.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It's really looking for evidence to possession of postess or
something like that. And then my my.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
Wife got frecked out.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
He doesn't really speak English, called my parents. My parents
called the local criminal lawyer, and then.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
They refer to bail guide.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
The bail mounts about five hundred thousand dollars. We don't
have the money, so the bail guy is doing the service.
So we paid ten percent for fifty thousand. But later
on they pushed the court day to August eighth, when
when we show up the court so they say there's
(23:53):
no information about the case.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So did they drop the charges? Did they drop the
charge they go to? Did they drop the charges?
Speaker 11 (24:03):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Okay, do you have a date? It was all right,
do you you have a date to do you have
a date to show up?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Now?
Speaker 11 (24:11):
I already went, that's the all good thing.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Okay, So what so what happened when you went?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
They say there's no information about the case and if they.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Dropped the case, they drop the case?
Speaker 11 (24:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
They say they still can look over the case within
a year.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Okay, So they let you go. They let you go?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, okay, And you want to know if you can
sue them for what.
Speaker 11 (24:38):
They have to pay?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
How how long were you in prison? How long were
you in jail.
Speaker 11 (24:45):
I got bailed out the next day.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Next day.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You paid fifty thousand dollars to bail out the next day.
That's an expensive jail trip. Yeah, okay, here's the bottom line.
If they had any kind of good faith belief that
you in fact violated the law or you were part
of protesting with the police, they can do it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Unfortunately, they can do it.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You can't sue them every time they arrest someone and
put them into jail and either up the charges.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
You know how many lawsuits would fly.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
That's every single protester who was picked up by the police.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It would be everyone.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
But here's the thing I talked to I consult I
paid two hundred dollars for a consultation with a different lawyer.
They told me that if they don't have anything against me,
then I'll just got released in seventy two hours.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Right, Yeah, but you got released the next day.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
No, I didn't got released to it. I got bailed
out the next day.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I paid them money, I got it all right, So
you may bail and so you couldn't even come. So
the seventy two hours you didn't even make There are
a lot of jail for three days and build out
day one.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Right, nobody told me about it. Police didn't tell me
about it. The criminal lawyer didn't tell me.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I don't think they had you know what, you know,
they don't have to tell you. You're on your own there.
That's why you that's why you call a family member
and the usually the bondsmen go to the jail and
find out. So your civil rights are violated because they
picked you up. You had to pay the fifty thousand dollars.
(26:29):
You didn't say, you didn't say, So what do you want?
What are you looking for?
Speaker 11 (26:34):
I'm looking for compensation. I'm looking for you for.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
The fifty thou for the fifty thousand dollars, right right? Okay,
any other money that you're looking for?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
They told my car because I was a woolber driver,
a loss of a business, or they keep my phone
of evidence.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, so let me okay, hold on, hold on, hang on.
Loss of business? How much business did you lose?
Speaker 11 (27:03):
Two weeks of uber I'm not able to do the thing.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Okay, So that's part of your damage.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And they took your phone for evidence and they haven't
given it back to yet.
Speaker 11 (27:12):
Yeah, three three weeks? For three weeks, I got it
back LATERKA.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I question, why why didn you Why did you buy
another phone?
Speaker 11 (27:21):
No, they took my car for two weeks. They told
the car for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
No, I understand, but you said they took your phone. Also,
you know what, I don't think you have much of
a case. But and when a two hundred dollars lawyer
gives you a consultation, how long were you with the lawyer?
Speaker 11 (27:38):
This one day? Just one day?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Do this a full day? That's you got a great deal.
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Do I think your civil rights have been violated? I
don't think so. But I'm not a civil rights lawyer.
So I'm going to suggest you go to another civil
rights lawyer or another civil rights lawyer. And if three
or four say no, there ain't much there, or a
couple say yes, write a check and you start paying
(28:04):
for it, then you're going to be out a lot
of money.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yes, yeah, it's good faith.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And they're doing this all the time, especially now in
the world of politics.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It's in the political scene right now. I don't think
you have much there.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I don't think so, but it's certainly worth contacting another
civil rights lawyer. If you went to one who says
you don't have a case. I don't know why you
wouldn't go to a second one and a third one.
I would, especially being out fifty thousand dollars, especially being
in prison, especially being arrested and having a court date.
That they went ahead and continued and didn't drop it
(28:44):
so they could open it up for a year. Yeah,
but they're not going forward with it. And when I
asked you did they drop the case, you say, I
don't know. You can find out. You call the DA's office.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
They'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It's complicated stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It is.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
This is handle on the law, KFI handle here. It
is a Saturday morning, eight hundred and five two zero
one five three four. Let's do it more. Handle on
the law. Marginal legal advice is that soresh? Do I
have that right?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Thresh? Are you there?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (29:26):
Okay, go ahead, okay, So s yeah, I forgot my question.
I was waiting for thirty minutes. So yeah. So I
I offered to buy a house, gave a deposit, and
my loan was denied later because I own another house
(29:46):
which need to be sold before I can get another loan.
So I requested for a deposit back, but the seller
is asked me to pay the present of it. I
want to know if I have any chance.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Okay, got it, all.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Right, I understood.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So you put a deposit on a house. You can't
close on the house because it was contingent on the
sale of this other house, and the seller wants fifty
percent of your deposit.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Depends on how the escrow was written, sir USh.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
If if money goes hard, which means that your deposit it,
that means it's done, whether the sale happens or not,
unless the buyer, unless the seller is responsible. If you
bail out, you change your mind. Effectively, you've changed your mind,
is what happened? Because you couldn't get the loan? How
(30:42):
was the escrow written?
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Yeah, there's no contingency.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
No contingency. Well, I mean you can sue. You can
sue and say I want my money back, and the
deal has effectively been and has been broken, and they're
going to say you paid your deposit and it's your
problem that you couldn't get the sale.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
So it's you're up in the air.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And I don't know, this is your California I don't
know how California law works. I'm willing to bet that, Yeah,
I'm willing to.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Bet you probably ate your deposit back. I think you do.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But you want, you want to look this up and
you can go on the internet. You can do a
web search on that in terms of deposits home statutes.
But yeah, I can't imagine you you bought a house
without any contingencies about well unless you say it's uh,
it's contingent on the sale and you didn't come up
(31:45):
with it, and they're gonna say you didn't you didn't breach.
Now there, you're responsible for any damages that they have
because you breached. And what are the damages? Well, uh,
they took it off the market. That was a little
speculative that they would have sold. It depends on the market,
depends on the sales price. There's a lot of there's
(32:07):
a lot of issues involved. But sesh, you you are
the one that breached the contract. Keep that in mind.
Now that doesn't mean you don't get your money back,
but that's why you want to do that search absolutely positively. Ryan, Hi, Ryan, welcome.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
I have a buddy that is currently renting out a
house in California and he signed a lease agreement but
recently got hit with a bill for fifteen for utilities.
On the initial lease agreement, he agreed and signed to
pay the utility bill, but the renter the owner did
(32:54):
not send out the utility bill each month like they
were supposed to. And just last month he received a
new lease agreement and it states on there we will
pay the fifteen dollars by next week. So he kind
of wants to know how he should go about that situation.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Okay, let me ask you something.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I borrow money from the bank and they have my
wrong address, okay, and it's not delivered to me, and
it took a year later. I got a free years.
I have a free year payment on the house. Right.
You see the problem. He has a duty because he
(33:33):
didn't get a bill. He knows the bill is coming,
he knows he oels the money. Yeah, so he he
had a duty to track it down and yeah he's
going to have to pay on this one and just
make sure that it's that the bill receives or make
sure that it's available. And today it's all on the
net anyway. You can simply go on and see what
(33:56):
your bills, well how much the bill is, So I
don't think you're much there, Okay, Before we bail. I
want to tell you about Handle on the Law dot Com.
You've been hearing about that, and Handle on the Law
dot com is all about lawyers. If you've been injured,
for example, in a slip and fall or a car accident,
let me suggest you go to handle on the Law
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(34:19):
They if there's a problem, I make the phone call.
That's why I created Handle on the Law dot Com.
A lot of lawyers out there to advertise. Some are great,
some are not so great. But Handle on the Law
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Speaker 2 (34:38):
This is Handle on the Law.
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