{"id":11080,"date":"2012-10-16T11:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=11080"},"modified":"2012-10-16T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:56:19","slug":"now-its-judge-mathis-who-wants-me-and-my-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=11080","title":{"rendered":"Now it’s Judge Mathis who wants me and my case!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a category here on Sidebar<\/strong> called “Getting the media involved.” I haven’t written much about it, although I have certain experiential advice. But when I wrote “media,” I was not thinking about reality TV.<\/p>\n

Yet, just after I filed a Small Claims Court case in Manhattan, I heard first from Judge Milian<\/a>, followed thereafter by Judge Judy<\/a>. And now, yesterday I got a letter from … Judge Mathis! Since I don’t watch these shows and have only a filtered recognition of the names of TV judges, I did not recognize Judge Mathis’s name on the envelope. In fact, given that it came from Chicago, I was figuring that the judge was running for the bench out there and wanted a campaign contribution. (Let’s not get me started on the raging impropriety of judges raising money to run for … my fingers were on the brink of typing “office,” which the bench is not, but that’s how rotten is the entanglement of politics, money and justice in this country.)<\/p>\n

I’m not going to replicate Judge Mathis’s offer here. It offers the same deal as did Judge Judy and Judge Millian: they all are eager to run my Small Claims Court case against Chaz Skush-O’Brien on their show. (Judge Mathis’s producer did ask, “…call me…as soon as possible, as our court dates fill up fast!” Really?)<\/p>\n

Sorry, Judge Mathis. I am going the actual legal court way. In December, I will be in Manhattan Small Claims Court<\/a> to pursue real, not TV, justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a category here on Sidebar called “Getting the media involved.” I haven’t written much about it, although I have certain experiential advice. But when I wrote “media,” I was not thinking about reality TV. Yet, just after I filed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[436,492],"class_list":["post-11080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-law-and-the-courts","tag-small-claims-court"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t