Hot Bench

To adjudicate a carpenter's and a welder's barter dispute, the judges must determine the relative worth of carport frames and hydraulic bins.

A driving instructor's employer fails to protect her from the sexual harassment of being propositioned by a 19-year-old student.

After a drunken man shakes his brother awake and breaks his nose, he tells the judges "I'm sorry" and "my brother got what he deserved" in the same breath.

Amid a turbulent child-custody battle, a man sues his ex-girlfriend over a measly broken window, but they've had so many similar altercations that neither can remember the details of the incident.

C.J., a pit bull, is too much dog for a 10-year-old to walk, and ends up attacking little Alan, a corgi/boxer mix, whose owner wants to recover money for medical bills.

A single mother of three tries to recover her security deposit, saying her son contracted mites from a dead bird.