
Many popular court shows are on TV. How can the genre improve? How about using a three-judge panel? That's the concept of "Hot Bench," created by Judge Judy Sheindlin. After hearing each case, the judges discuss it among themselves before rendering a verdict. The show's title comes from a term describing a court action in which a judge frequently interrupts lawyers with questions.

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A friendship ends, but the bill remains. A woman says repeated loans were never repaid despite a signed promissory note, while the man argues that the money came with the relationship, not a repayment schedule. It's up to the judges to separate financial facts from personal fiction.
A landlady says her on-site manager failed fixes, missed rent and kept what other tenants paid, so she evicted him, but now he accuses her of using and bullying him; with repairs undone and receipts unclear, this tenant-tangle needs serious court-approved maintenance.
After a nine-year tenancy, a man says his landlords became condescending and retaliatory when he was hospitalized and fell behind on rent.
A woman's 10-year-old nephew woke her up, saying "A strange man is throwing things at our window and yelling your name!"; it turned out that the man was a process server, and he now accuses her of denting his car.