
This courtroom series stars former family court judge Judy Sheindlin. Each episode finds Judge Judy presiding over real small-claims cases inside a televised courtroom. Her no-nonsense, wisecracking approach has been unsuccessfully copied by other TV court judges.

The judge advises a defendant to stop giving her funny looks; a driving lesson between two commune dwellers ends with a crash into a tree and a lawsuit.

A cyclist and an uninsured motorist fight over $30,000 in medical bills; two Siberian huskies are accused of killing 75 chickens; a woman sues her former landlord for money she put down on a room.

A man says his ex-girlfriends vandalized his property while he was in jail.

A young mother is caught on tape beating her neighbor's door; a man admits to stealing $1,000 in cash from his girlfriend while she was in the hospital.