Hot Bench

A man is sitting in a parked car with his door wide open into traffic when a teen driver rams into him and crushes his leg.

When a businessman had to go away, he gave power of attorney to a friend who cashed a check in his name and kept the money.

A woman says that the owner of her boxing gym slandered her when he spread rumors about her relationship with her trainer; he countersues for lost clients

A woman says her sub-tenant was a bully and put his own belongings out in the rain so that he could blame her and sue for the value.

A tenant renewed her lease for a year but left after a month for personal and family reasons; the landlord withheld her security deposit, citing a lease break fee, but she says that wasn't in the original lease.