![]() ![]() In reality, all the litigants in question-plaintiffs and defendants alike-were friends who split the earnings up among each other. The litigants involved also walked away with an appearance fee of $250 each and an all expense paid vacation to Hollywood, California. The operation, derived by musicians Kate Levitt and Jonathan Coward, was successful: Sheindlin awarded the plaintiff (Levitt) $1,250. In April 2013, former litigants from a 2010 airing of the show revealed they conspired together in fabricating a lawsuit in which the logical outcome would be to grant payment to the plaintiff. If you think about it, dishonest conspirators can get a paid vacation to Los Angeles, an appearance fee, seen on TV, and they can split up to a $5,000 judgment. However, in the style of Freakonomics, this incentive structure can create unexpected consequences. The show gets cheap material (court shows are much cheaper to make than sitcoms), and the audience gets entertained. Both parties will still want to win the case, but both will stand to benefit financially. Most of the audience extras are comprised of (low) paid (aspiring) actors.įor an honest disagreement, this seems to be a pretty fair arrangement.They pay may also pay for your airfare and hotel if you are not from the area. The appearance fees varies, but is in the neighborhood of a few hundred dollars plus $35 a day if it takes multiple days.The award limit on these types of shows is usually $5,000, the same as “real” small claims court. ![]() I found some related details from the Wikipedia page of the Judge Judy show: ![]() ![]() No matter what, both parties will receive an appearance fee.If you lose the case, you don’t have to pay anything, again because the show pays the judgment for you.If you win the case, you are guaranteed to collect because the show pays the judgment directly to the winner.Of course, me being me, I found the payment details the most interesting: I’m guessing this is due to a previous guest post on Winning Our Case in Small Claims Court. as a high school student do not resemble the George Floyd featured in the Judge Judy clip.Have you ever wondered how the participants get paid in court TV shows like Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, or The People’s Court? Over the weekend, I got this tweet from a casting director for a new court TV show where a celebrity gets to be the New Court Show CASTING! Have a celebrity judge decide the verdict of your case! Plz retweet! /Wxcpwv4iie Published here by the Los Angeles Times and here by the New York Times, images taken of George Perry Floyd, Jr. The teenage plaintiff, George Floyd IV, would today be in his mid-to-late-20s, over a decade and a half younger than George Perry Floyd, Jr. was at the time of his death. It is likely that this clip is from an episode of Judge Judy that aired in 2010. Two Judge Judy blogs ( here and here ) include in their descriptions for Season 14, Episode 241: “A teen carjacks a woman's vehicle and then wrecks it while fleeing from police.” The blogs say that the episode aired on May 24, 2010, when the late George Floyd was 36 years old. Born on Octo( here ), he would have been nearly 23 years old when Judge Judy premiered on television on September 16, 1996 ( ). In the videos, the defendant identifies himself as being 16 years old. was 46 years old when he died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020 ( here ). ![]()
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