Ms. Pat Settles It 2x18

1. - Hey, y'all. I'm Ms. Pat.

2. - All rise.

3. - And I know the inside of a courtroom.

4. I'm a convicted felon with a GED.

5. Now I'm sitting on this side of the bench.

6. Y'all are killin' me.

7. These are real cases

8. with real money on the line.

9. And I'm bringing my own friends to court as my jury.

10. - What is this, "Looney Tunes"?

11. - Y'all may have started this mess,

12. but I'm going to settle it.

13. - I love this courtroom.

14. - All rise, 'cause court is back in session.

15. - All rise for the judge who is too legit to acquit.

16. Ms. Pat.

17. - Please have a seat, because I'm going to.

18. Hey, Jury.

19. - Hey. - Hey, Ms. Pat.

20. - Carmen, I see you glowing. - Yeah.

21. - You hung out with Ray J last night?

22. - No, no. I wouldn't be glowing if I did.

23. I'd be drunk.

24. - With that said, let's get the party started.

25. Bailiff, start bailiffing.

26. - This is the case of Love versus Desatnik.

27. - Plaintiff Clavacia Love is suing his fiancée

28. Brittany for $5,000.

29. He claims that while he was serving overseas,

30. he paid the rent for a home she was

31. actually sharing with her ex.

32. Defendant Brittany Desatnik says her fiancé,

33. Clavacia, is overreacting.

34. She loves only him,

35. and she shouldn't owe him anything

36. because the past is the past,

37. and they need to focus on the future.

38. - Before we get started, I just want to let you all know this

39. is a jury of my peers, OK?

40. I get to use them however I want to use them,

41. but you better keep your eye on them 'cause

42. they will take your wallet.

43. Clay, why are you here today?

44. - Your Honor, I'm here because my fiancée leads with lies.

45. When I deployed, she finessed me

46. out a lot of money. - How much money?

47. - I'm here today for $5,000.

48. It was supposed to go towards her rent,

49. but I came to find out...

50. She was living with her ex still.

51. - Oh, so she was getting your money while you was deployed,

52. and she was supposed to be paying the rent for you

53. to come home and live with her? - Correct.

54. - Ooh. - What?

55. - Is that true, Brittany?

56. - Your Honor, my fiancé is super dramatic.

57. When we first started our talking stage,

58. I was living with my ex at the time.

59. I didn't tell him my full situation

60. because it was so early on in our relationship.

61. That was seven months ago.

62. Since then, I've been proposed to,

63. carrying his child. I've been cooking, cleaning.

64. I don't think I owe him anything.

65. - Ooh.

66. - How did y'all meet?

67. - She led the conversation sliding into my DMs,

68. and that's how we started talking.

69. - Did you know her before she slid into your DM?

70. - No. - Oh.

71. - Let me ask you something, Brittany.

72. Did you go after Clay because you needed a financial help?

73. - No, I was tired of being single,

74. and I liked his personality, so I reached out to him.

75. - How long were you broken up with that ex

76. before you started dating Clay?

77. - A whole year. - Hmm.

78. - Clay, was it a loan, or was giving her the money?

79. - It was a loan. - Ooh.

80. - It was definitely not a loan.

81. You offered it to me. I accepted it.

82. And it was going towards what I said it was going to

83. go towards, which was my rent. - Mm.

84. - Clay, do you think Brittany took advantage of you?

85. - Absolutely.

86. You've got to picture it, I'm in a different time zone

87. from my family, friends, everybody.

88. I'm all alone. I need somebody to talk to.

89. But there's a whole grown-ass man

90. in this house. - Was you suspicious?

91. - Absolutely.

92. She would FaceTime me in weird places.

93. It became like a mystery.

94. Why are you always in an awkward place?

95. - Why you got the mop bucket on your head?

96. So let me ask you something, Brittany.

97. Did you ever tell him that you was roommating with the ex?

98. - I did tell him.

99. When he got out, it was just exhausting to keep the secret.

100. - You was tired of hiding in the car,

101. the hallway with a bucket on your head? OK.

102. So what is your relationship currently?

103. When the last time y'all had sexual relations?

104. - It's been a minute. - Yesterday.

105. - Oh. - You're about to lie?

106. - I know she's not lying

107. 'cause your shoulders look relaxed.

108. All right, I'ma go to my jury.

109. - Hey, this is a simp situation going on right here.

110. He a man overseas, ain't getting no puss.

111. She promised him some puss when he get home.

112. This whole thing is a case of "pass the Clavacia." OK?

113. - Listen.

114. He was fighting for our country,

115. and she was fighting for the rent.

116. - Anything you want to say before I make this decision?

117. - I did make a mistake in the beginning,

118. but since then, we've grown our relationship,

119. and I told him the truth.

120. I don't feel like I owe him anything

121. because I want us to get past this whole situation

122. that happened in the early stages

123. of our relationship when we weren't even together.

124. - Anything you want to say, Clay?

125. - All right, yes.

126. You know that I was sending you a lot of money.

127. You know how hard I worked when I was deployed.

128. If you want to move forward with me and do the right thing,

129. would it be bad for you to give me the money

130. back that I loaned you? - OK.

131. This is a relationship that I hope that can work out.

132. And I know we're not going to be able to solve it today,

133. but it's time to settle this.

134. I'm ruling in favor of...

135. Nobody.

136. Let me tell you why.

137. Because this is a relationship.

138. In a relationship, things happen.

139. You must have fell in love with her

140. because you did a whole lot.

141. Don't hold this against her 'cause

142. you could be overreacting.

143. - Oh, yeah. - What are you having?

144. - A girl.

145. - What are you going to name her?

146. - Moon. - Moon?

147. - Moon.

148. - Girl, get your silly ass out of here.

149. - You are dismissed.

150. - Do not let her name that Black baby no Moon.

151. - Your Honor— - Bye, sweetheart.

152. - Your Honor, I have something to say.

153. - What do you have to say, young lady?

154. - Clay definitely asked me to go on a date with him.

155. - Who asked you to go on a date?

156. - Clay. - You know Clay?

157. - What? - Yeah.

158. - And what are you about to show me now?

159. - A video. - A video?

160. - Oh, my God. Can I see it?

161. - Hey, big league.

162. - What? - No.

163. - And he was sitting here playing the victim.

164. Kourtlyn, you go grab his ass while I keep talking to him.

165. Go grab— Go grab him, Kourtlyn.

166. - Go get him! Go get him, boy!

167. - Whoo! - Yes.

168. - I want to talk to him.

169. How did you know him?

170. - So he DM'ed me.

171. - And he told you he was lonely, too,

172. and he was in the military overseas?

173. - Yep, yeah. - So that's his thing, y'all.

174. He just go into women DM.

175. And she was dumb enough to fall for it.

176. - He's a creep.

177. - Yes. - That guy's gone.

178. Clay passed— Clavacia fast as hell.

179. - Wow. - Let me tell you something.

180. Next time you have some tea in my courtroom,

181. you stand your ass up and spill your tea, baby.

182. - Yes!

183. - Give me my next case, honey, before I get pregnant.

184. - He told me, if this does not hit,

185. I will give you your money back.

186. - You let him suck you in and up.

187. - Oh. - Wait a minute, Pat!

188. - That I would have paid to see.

189. - All right, Jury, you know I love y'all,

190. so I hope we can get through this day

191. without y'all embarrassing me.

192. - Never.

193. - No promises.

194. - Get the people in here, honey,

195. so we can get this thing popping.

196. - This is the case of Raxton versus Janvier.

197. - Plaintiff Chris Raxton is suing his business partner,

198. Rubens, for $500, the amount he paid Rubens

199. for guaranteed sports picks that lost him his money.

200. - All right, DeRay Davis.

201. - Defendant Rubens Janvier says Chris

202. should have read the small print.

203. It's called gambling for a reason,

204. and Rubens owes nothing for his friend's bad luck.

205. - To tell the truth, the whole truth,

206. and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

207. - Y'all dressed for a funeral. Somebody's going to die today.

208. All right, Chris, tell us why we're here.

209. - I'm suing my friend and longtime business partner,

210. Rubens, for $500.

211. I was in a tough financial situation.

212. I needed to make money to pay the rent.

213. I paid my last $500 to him to send me

214. his guaranteed or your money back

215. sports plays of the day.

216. He told me, if this does not hit,

217. I will give you your money back.

218. - Oh, yes.

219. - Rubens lost me my money, but refused to pay me back.

220. So here we are today. - So this is sports betting?

221. - 100%. - OK.

222. I know how to shoot craps,

223. but I don't know how to sports bet.

224. - Oh, it's easy.

225. - Let me hear your side of the story, Rubens.

226. - Well, first of all, Ms. Pat, this man's a bona fide bozo.

227. And I actually should be suing him for me even

228. being here and wasting my time. - What?

229. - Wow. - OK.

230. - What? - I advised him.

231. Told him, "Yo, I'ma sell you this advice.

232. I'ma give you these three guaranteed sports picks."

233. But you see, Chris here, he did his own thing

234. a little bit, and unfortunately,

235. he lost his money.

236. - So what the hell did you bet on for him?

237. - Oh, no, I gave him the picks.

238. That was his business.

239. - He's an advisor. - Oh!

240. - The $500 was his fee.

241. He pocketed that, which is what I'm suing him for.

242. - So since you didn't win, you want the $500 back.

243. - Exactly, that he guaranteed he would give me back.

244. - Guaranteed.

245. - How can you guarantee somebody

246. something is going to hit.

247. - I have a flyer, right? It says "guarantee."

248. But I have very small descriptive words

249. that has a disclaimer. - Ah.

250. - Come on. Come on. - The fine print gets you.

251. - It's a guarantee, or it's not.

252. - My disclaimer says,

253. "You're not going to lose if you have the balance

254. to take all the bets."

255. I had no idea that he owned, that's all he had to bet.

256. - You didn't read the BS?

257. - He told me, if this does not hit,

258. I will give you your money back.

259. - The strangest thing about this is,

260. you didn't have rent money, but you had money for advice.

261. - Yeah. That's dumb.

262. You, instead of paying your rent, are gambling.

263. - Do you see his chain and his watch?

264. - That has nothing to do with you.

265. - He got my money right there. - And it feels great, Ms. Pat.

266. - Boy. - Oh, my God.

267. - We seeing you today. - Yeah.

268. - Rubens ain't playing.

269. - Was y'all friends before this?

270. - We were, you know, friends.

271. - So you charge your friend $500 for advice?

272. - Of course.

273. If you're my friend, you will support me.

274. If you not, are we really friends?

275. - There's a fee to be your friend?

276. - Oh, my God.

277. - OK, Jury, these people done lost they damn mind.

278. Help a sister out.

279. - I don't know much about sports

280. and all that stuff they talking,

281. but I think Chris has been played.

282. - Ooh.

283. - It's a bet, you know? No guarantees in it.

284. - You should have done the right thing.

285. You were responsible for the bet.

286. - No. - Mm.

287. - And he's right.

288. If you're a legitimate business,

289. you've got to operate like a real business.

290. - You come across as somebody who's

291. trying to rip off a friend.

292. - Let me settle this.

293. Chris, you can't gamble, and then when you don't win,

294. you want your money back.

295. And you shouldn't have never charged your friend

296. $500 for advice.

297. But I understand why you do what you do.

298. Your clothes are tailor-made. - Yeah.

299. - It is hard to find 3Ts in adult size.

300. I just can't believe you're that gullible.

301. You let him suck you in and up.

302. - Whoa. - Hey, yo.

303. - Wait a minute, Pat.

304. - Hey, yo— - Objection, objection.

305. - Now that I would have paid to see.

306. - I've come to my final decision,

307. and I'm going to settle this once and for all.

308. I'm ruling in favor of...

309. Neither one of y'all asses.

310. - Oh. - Hey, y'all lost.

311. Everybody lost. Everybody lost.

312. - You can't buy a lottery ticket

313. and give it back because you didn't win.

314. It don't work like that.

315. You didn't have the money to gamble with in the first place,

316. so you had no business gambling.

317. Bet is a bet, and your ass can't get upset.

318. Get out of my courtroom.

319. Ray J, do you believe that guy's as good as he say he is?

320. - His poise and his posture says it.

321. - And he's coldhearted. - He's coldhearted.

322. Like yeah, but again, he can't guarantee anything.

323. You know what I'm saying?

324. And if they believe that, then they will believe when

325. I said I never lied before it.

326. - Bailiff, next case.

327. - I took these courses that my mom said I needed to take,

328. and the business is shut down now.

329. - She went on maternity leave, but not really maternity leave.

330. - People go on maternity leave all the time,

331. and their business still stay afloat.

332. I know somebody had a baby yesterday.

333. - It was me. I'm back here today.

334. - How y'all doing, Jury? - Good.

335. - We're amazing.

336. - Kourtlyn is a little musty.

337. - Are you a little musty? - No, I'm not.

338. - You're musty.

339. - You probably having hot flashes,

340. but it's going to be all right.

341. Bailiff, start bailiffing.

342. - This is the case of Boykins versus Nelson.

343. - Plaintiff Majaghoni Boykins is suing her mom

344. for $4,735.72. - Get it sexy.

345. - The amount she invested in classes

346. for their trucking company but never got back

347. when the business fell apart.

348. Defendant Lakesha Nelson says the company

349. went under because Majaghoni stepped back from her job.

350. She doesn't owe her daughter one mother-trucking dollar.

351. - The whole truth, and nothing but the truth,

352. so help you God? - Yes.

353. - All right, Majaghoni, tell us why we're here today.

354. - I'm here because I'm suing my mom for $4,735.72.

355. We started a trucking business. - Oh.

356. - And she made me take these coaching classes

357. for the trucking business,

358. but I had to step back from the business

359. because I had a high-risk pregnancy,

360. and I found out when I was nine months pregnant

361. about to have my baby, the business was gone.

362. She shut it down. - Ooh.

363. - I had to come out of pocket for these courses,

364. and I feel she owes me the money.

365. - Mm-hmm.

366. - All right, Mama, tell me your side of the story.

367. - As far as the administrative side

368. of the company, it was myself and my daughter.

369. So the coaching was information that was helpful for her

370. to be able to know what she needed to do.

371. I don't owe my daughter anything.

372. They were classes that she needed to take.

373. - Hm.

374. Can you explain to me why you want $4,735.72?

375. - Exactly.

376. - Because I took these courses that my mom

377. said I needed to take, and I had to come

378. out of pocket of my own money,

379. and the business is shut down now.

380. - Do you know how many people

381. go and take classes and never use their background?

382. DeRay is a gynecologist, but he don't practice that.

383. - That job stinks. - Oh, my God.

384. - Ugh.

385. - So what type of trucking business was this?

386. Was y'all hauling something? Dirt? People?

387. - Freight. - We were hauling freight.

388. - OK, freight.

389. - What responsibility did you have Majaghoni.

390. - I booked loads.

391. I had to find drivers.

392. I paid the people.

393. - You were pretty much running this business.

394. - Yes, ma'am.

395. - And how did the business fail?

396. - The business closed because it was

397. too much on just me to be able to do

398. everything by myself.

399. Majaghoni, she went on maternity leave,

400. but not really maternity leave. She stopped talking to me.

401. - Mm, people go on maternity leave all the time,

402. and they business still stay afloat.

403. I know somebody had a baby yesterday.

404. - It was me. I'm back here today.

405. - My mom wanted me to do everything.

406. I couldn't do that.

407. So I said, "I need to take a break.

408. I'm getting stressed out." - OK.

409. Did y'all have a contract? - We did have a contract.

410. - Let me see it.

411. - I have the contract right here, ma'am.

412. - And what is this contract for?

413. - It's a partnership.

414. Everybody's supposed to do their part of the business

415. so we can run the business.

416. - So did y'all need startup money

417. for this trucking business? - Yes, ma'am.

418. - How much did you put in Majaghoni?

419. - I put in $5,000.

420. - Me and her helped out equally.

421. - Did you say, "I'ma pay you back"?

422. Did you ever tell her you're going to pay you back

423. if she take the class? Just asking.

424. - No.

425. - I see why the business didn't work.

426. Mahogany is spelled wrong.

427. There should not be a "J" in mahogany.

428. - It's spelled right. I'm the one and only.

429. - This is "Majaghoni."

430. - What happened to your business

431. after you had to leave?

432. - She sold it. She sold everything.

433. - Oh. - I didn't get anything.

434. - Oh.

435. - You sold all the stuff for the trucking business?

436. - Uh-huh. - Computers?

437. Typewriters? - Typewriters?

438. - Did y'all own any trucks? - Yes.

439. - So where that truck at?

440. - My mom sold it.

441. I don't know who she sold it to.

442. - Plaintiff Majaghoni Boykins is suing her mom,

443. Lakesha Nelson, for $4,735.72 worth of business classes

444. for their trucking company.

445. Lakesha Nelson says Majaghoni gets nothing

446. since it's her fault the business stalled out.

447. Ms. Pat is about to get this case back on the road.

448. - So when you had your trucking company,

449. did y'all own any trucks? - Yeah.

450. - So where that truck at?

451. - I sold the truck for, like, $35,000.

452. - What?

453. - Where the money from the truck?

454. - What happened to the money?

455. - I'm not feeling that. - Mm-mm-mm.

456. - We still owed on the truck. - Oh.

457. - She's not evidently counting that.

458. - Oh, wow. - Damn.

459. - Majaghoni, when you left the company,

460. how did that affect you and your mom relationship?

461. - It— it put a strain on our relationship.

462. We're just barely back.

463. After my second baby, we're just barely back.

464. - It's just like a big breakup.

465. I was not there for the birth of her children.

466. I was hurt because that's my only daughter.

467. - I'ma be honest with you.

468. From a grandmama to a grandmama,

469. you don't want to see them when they first born.

470. They ugly as hell.

471. - Oh, my God.

472. - OK, Jury, what you got for me?

473. - If you promise right now to never use

474. none of that knowledge ever, ever in life,

475. I'll help you get the money back.

476. But your mama is a boss in this business.

477. She drive trucks, dawg.

478. Yo mama, look at that woman, pulling up to your school

479. in an 18-wheeler

480. - With a 82-ounce Mountain Dew.

481. - Majaghoni, my mother passed when I was 15 years old,

482. and I think about sometimes, like, where I'm at today.

483. I wish she could see what her baby girl was doing.

484. You don't get a second chance.

485. You've got to take the mama that you got,

486. and you've got to love her, because when she gone,

487. that's it. - Mm-hmm.

488. - I've come to my final decision,

489. and I'm going to settle this once and for all.

490. I'm ruling in favor of...

491. the defendant, Lakesha Nelson.

492. - Thank you, Your Honor.

493. - That's right. - Yeah!

494. - Majaghoni, she don't owe you anything.

495. All you had to do was go out and use that knowledge

496. from that class.

497. You could have went and worked at any trucking company.

498. And you still can.

499. All you've got to do is go get yourself another job.

500. With that said, I just settled it.

501. - You are dismissed.

502. - Mm.

503. - These people crazy.

504. Boy, they don't mind suing they parents.

505. - Mm-hmm. For sure.

506. - I'm telling my kids, "Hey, don't sue me.

507. If you sue me, I'm coming to court naked."

508. - Next time on "Ms. Pat Settles It."

509. When was the house built? 19—

510. - 1890. - Oh, shit. 18?

511. - You thought I was kidding.

512. - That's a "Color Purple" house.

513. - So you just went off and got you a free hairdo

514. and makeup for your photo shoot?

515. - Would you pay $200?

516. - You don't even want to know what I pay these bitches

517. that do me like this.

518. - Please refer to me as Madame Honey.

519. - Hell no. - Oh, what?

520. - All this right here is pimping up, hoeing down.

521. - Well, I don't know nothing about that, you honor.

522. - Yes, you do.

523. Your suit told me that when you walked in the door.