We're back and we're ready for the next case of the day.
We'll introduce it with this quote
by English writer, D. H. Lawrence,
which says something that is worth thinking about.
It reads, "Some people think it's natural for humans
to take advantage of others."
Bring out the litigants.
I made a video regarding discrimination.
I merely used everything I had at my disposal in the room.
She used my room, my pictures, all my things.
to make a perverted and pornographic video.
-Good afternoon. -Good afternoon.
I apologize for this.
I was just very surprised by how extremely different
and opposite your views are.
I mean, I think this will be a very complicated case for me.
Well, let's start.
Laura, you're suing Ruby.
Tell me who she is, why you're suing her,
and what you demand in order to settle this case.
I'm suing this woman. She's my landlord.
She destroyed all my equipment in a fit of craziness.
She destroyed my camera and my laptop.
I'm a photography and film major.
I rented a section of her home for 30 days.
She came highly recommended. We had a verbal agreement.
I trusted her.
It was just for a month?
Yes.
I won't let her finish the month in my house.
She's only been there for 20 days.
Excuse me.
I'm not going to leave
because I already paid her to stay there for 30 days.
Oh, so you paid for the entire month?
Yes.
-How much did you pay? -$1,500.
Alright, $1,500 for 30 days.
Okay, what happened?
Alright, once she rented me her place,
I found it was strange that she left her personal belongings
at the house.
She left her pictures and her photos.
I didn't particularly like those things.
I didn't understand why she was renting me the place
and leaving all her things, including her family things.
Because I didn't want to move them...
Did you notify her?
I did.
She told me not to worry. That it was just 30 days.
She told me to make myself comfortable.
I didn't see anything wrong with it,
though I didn't like that she'd done it.
Like I said , I'm a film and television major...
-What are you talking about? -Ma'am.
-She's a pig! -Ma'am!
First of all, please be respectful.
Don't interrupt her before it's your turn.
You're saying she's disrespectful,
but you're being very rude.
She fooled me too with her Miss Goody-Two-Shoes act.
Ma'am, I'm talking to you!
Please, at least, try to respect this process.
Don't interrupt her again.
That's how she always is.
This woman showed up at the house five days
after I'd arrived.
I was there with my friends and we were filming
a short I had to do for my class.
When she got there, she gave my friends contemptuous looks.
My friends are gay and I don't see anything wrong with that.
They're not abnormal people like she calls them.
After she saw them, she called me aside
and asked me why I was with people like them.
She said, "Our society's the way it is
because of people like them."
What else happened?
A few days later, she called me to tell me
that she was going to stop by to clean the house.
I didn't want her there. I can do my own cleaning.
To my surprise, when I came home after a long day,
I found my camera in the sink.
My laptop was wet.
My sound equipment and mics where all destroyed.
She did it.
She didn't just damage my equipment.
She completely destroyed it. She got them wet.
And I'd do it again if I had too!
What are you demanding?
I want her to pay me for everything she destroyed.
How much would that be?
$10,000.
Alright, $10,000.
Ma'am, this woman's behavior is what caused me
to go ahead with this project.
I merely made a short about...
You've dragged me in this situation!
Why didn't you drag your damn mother in this?
The short tells the story of two gay men in love
who are rejected by their parents.
This lady had a picture in her living room.
She left it there and I used it as a set prop.
I don't think I did anything wrong
because I paid her for the house
and I told her to take her things.
Of course.
When you rent a place, they're allowing you to use everything.
It's like they're consenting that you use it.
She can't use it because I didn't sell it to her.
I'm talking and this lady isn't even listening to me.
I really don't understand this lady.
She's always like this.
I merely made a short about two people in love who want to show
that they love each other,
but who are rejected by their parents.
I used the picture of her and her husband, who's also crazy.
So she destroyed all of your equipment
as a way to get back at you for the short you made?
Yes, because I made the short and uploaded it on the Internet.
This project was supposed to have a second part,
but she destroyed my work and my equipment.
Right. Great.
How do you respond to the suit?
She wants $10,000 for the destruction of her equipment.
Good afternoon.
My response is this.
I want to make a counterclaim demanding $20,000
in material and psychological damages.
She's ruined everything.
What did she ruin?
My house, my family, my home.
Please explain. What'd she do?
I rented her my house with my things for $1,500.
I wasn't going to remove anything from my house,
because all she had was a camera and a computer.
She said she was a film and television student.
I am.
She's a liar.
Why do you say that?
She uses that camera and that computer to do nasty things.
She films pornographic videos.
It's not pornography. It's just a love story.
There are men kissing and having sex.
There are women together and I don't doubt for a second
that she's in that video too.
So what if I am? It's my life!
-You're a disgusting pervert. -Old-fashioned hag!
I'd rather be old-fashioned than a nutjob!
Ma'am, this is the 21st century.
Ma'am, tell me about yourself.
I belong to an association
that's against same-sex marriage, abortion,
and same-sex couples adopting children.
Why? Because these are kids.
Kids grow. They won't always be kids.
How are we supposed to have a decent future
if the children of the entire world, not just the country,
are the future?
Alright, ma'am. Are you married?
Yes, I've been married for 30 years.
Do you have any kids?
I had a son who died four years ago.
-What happened to him? -Unfortunately, he died.
-He died? -Yes.
Alright, did you bring the video you made?
I have it.
I brought it so you could see.
Let's take a look at the footage.
I think it's relevant so we see how pornographic it is.
It's disgusting!
It's like it was filmed in Sodom and Gomorrah!
<i> I can't take this anymore!</i>
<i> What's wrong, sweetheart?</i>
<i> My mother and father won't</i> <i> accept me because I'm gay.</i>
She even used my picture!
This is an embarrassment to my organization!
It's an embarrassment to my family!
You know you'll always have my support.
Now all my neighbors think I support this!
"How to be gay no matter what your parents think about you."
She's ruined the home and family I built for 30 years!
I'm sorry, but I must've missed the pornographic part here.
If you saw anything pornographic here,
please raise your hand.
Oh, you all missed it as well.
Did you notice anything pornographic?
I did. I saw perversion.
-You have a witness, right? -I do.
Bring out the plaintiff's witness.
This is so stupid.
Good afternoon. Your name?
Hector.
Alright, Hector! Nice to meet you.
He's the one in the video.
I'm here on behalf of my friend Laura.
The picture we used in the video to address
the issue of this couple belongs to me.
I'll explain.
Everything in that house belongs to me as well,
because this lady is my mother.
I was your mother!
You've been dead to me for four years!
This woman is your mother?
Yes, she was.
But she said you died!
He is dead!
He died four years ago and now he's back to hurt me!
She's so insane she says I'm dead.
What?
Look, this is my picture.
The sofa where I was sitting
with my boyfriend has been there all my life.
So when your mother came there...
that's your house!
It's your parent's house!
Yes, I feel comfortable there because that's where I grew up.
This lady says I'm dead...
I don't even want to call her mom anymore.
Why would you? She thinks you're dead!
Yes, he's been dead ever since he came out!
Be quiet.
Ma'am, shut up! Quiet.
She's so twisted that when I was 17,
she and my father kicked me out of the house.
You ruined my chances of being a grandmother.
They wanted me to have a girlfriend.
They wanted me to get married
so they could have grandchildren.
I could've done it. I still can.
I'm still a man through and through.
I still have something between my legs.
If they don't want to accept me, that's their problem.
I'll never accept you!
You'll always be a bitter, sad, and empty woman.
You're the twisted one here
because you don't know how to love the son you birthed.
You're the twisted one here.
I curse the day I gave birth to him!
How am I supposed to feel as a gay man when...
So you had to leave your home when you were 17?
Yes, I had to start taking care of myself
because my own parents weren't there for me.
They kicked me out.
They basically had me declared dead.
I've been dead for four years.
He had everything! He lost everything that day!
This picture belongs to me...
I was actually in this picture, but they cut me out.
Well, yeah, besides, they're your parents.
You can't deny it.
They're my "parents."
Yes, quote on quote,
but they're on your birth certificate.
That's true.
I feel sorry for them.
Who else has witnesses?
I do.come back, wee
There's the other one!
Oh, okay.
Here we go.
Good afternoon. Your name?
My name's Fred Garcia.
Okay, and this is your dead son, right?
We had to kick him out of the house
because he's a degenerate.
I'm here today on behalf of my wife.
Ever since that disgusting video came out,
which they uploaded to Facebook...
There's nothing wrong with people knowing.
Ever since that happened, my wife's been depressed.
I can tell! Whoo!
She's super depressed!
She'll get upset over anything.
We're going to need...
Sir, your wife was born upset. What are you talking about?
It's so bad she's going to need therapy.
Do you know how expensive that is?
They should pay for it!
Were you two depressed after you kicked your son
out of your house?
After...
Were you depressed
when you kicked out your 17-year-old son?
We actually got depressed when we found out he was gay.
Bring out Dr. Madeline Hernandez.
I'll get signatures!
That belongs to him, sir.
It's mine.
Bring out Angel Leal, attorney at law!
That's our picture! Why?
Give it back!
Ma'am.
I'd rather you threw it away.
Ma'am.
You're betraying our family.
Wow.
These people are talking as if this was the 19th century.
Unfortunately, there are still a lot people like them.
What can we do to get rid of this sort of mentality?
This is very interesting,
but a bit more than a century ago, Sigmund Freud,
a very famous psychiatrist...
The founder of psychoanalysis.
That's right.
He had a theory.
His theory stated that homophobia is an expression
of repressed homosexual tendencies.
Yes.
There are recent studies that have proved
that there is truth to this theory.
It's been proven that many of the people who have
these extreme views against homosexuality are actually...
Afraid of their own sexuality.
Yes, they're repressed.
Studies have shown
that when shown pictures of their own gender,
these sort of people feel sexually stimulated.
Look, just talking about it makes him nervous.
They raised me.
Mr. Leal, the sad part is that,
even though the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage
and has now made it a federal law,
there's still a subversive movement led by some
who talk about reverting the law.
Yes.
Is that possible?
No, because the Supreme Court's decision was an interpretation
of the law based on the country's constitution.
They declared that denying same-sex couples the right
to get married is a violation of the their right to equality,
which is protected by the Constitution.
It's an interpretation of the law,
which means that the only way it could change
would be if there were another interpretation of the law.
The DOMA case actually had to do with the interpretation
of statutes that were considered
to violate constitutional rights.
Constitutional rights.
Alright, that's good to hear.
My ruling.
I grant your claim entirely.
You'll continue living in the house for ten days
and the defendant will have to pay you $10,000
for your equipment.
Thanks.
I deny your counterclaim,
because like I said, it has no basis.
It was frivolous and it had absolutely no merit.
I can't even begin to make sense of it.
It's just an expression of your hate and your fear.
I feel very sorry for you.
It's final. Case closed!
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Be kind, be careful, get educated,
give respect to get respect, and may God help us!
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