in the matter of Susan vs.
Gatto-McCann, step forward.
>> Announcer: Home health care
aide Anca Susan is suing
Marianne Gatto-McCann
for loss of income
due to defamation of character.
>> Judge Judy: Ms. Susan,
you're a home health aide...
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy:
...by profession.
According to your papers,
you've been doing that kind of
work for 12 years.
What kind of professional
training do you have?
>> I have a BS in biology
from New York University.
I have 4 years of dental school
in Stony Brook,
and then I had 15 years,
actually, of caregiving
due to a back surgery
and post-op infection,
then I changed my field of work.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
Your complaint is that
the defendant posted
a negative review
about your service online,
where I assume
you advertise for your service.
>> Yes, actually,
it's called care.com,
and it's a site where
caregivers and care-seeker meet.
It's a very safe site,
and where I am paying forty...
>> Judge Judy:
You pay for a site
to advertise on the Internet.
>> Yes, sir.
Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy:
And people can comment
on your service.
>> Of course.
>> Judge Judy:
Either positively or negatively.
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy:
And this is what happened.
The defendant's father had had
a stroke, and
he had a permanent caregiver.
His permanent caregiver,
according to the defendant,
and I have no reason to doubt
that, permanent caregiver
was going in for surgery,
and she had a need
to find a substitute,
and she started her
interview process
well in advance
and hired you 2 weeks before.
One week.
She said 2 weeks?
One week before.
>> Two days.
>> Judge Judy: Let
you interviewed
by the defendant?
>> Of course.
>> Judge Judy:
Just give me the date.
I don't want a whole story.
>> No problem.
>> Judge Judy: Give me the date.
>> November the 9th, we met.
November 1st, I apply.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
When were you interviewed?
>> November 9th,
I met at the house.
>> Judge Judy: November 9th.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Just...
That's the question.
November 9th.
>> November 9th.
>> Judge Judy:
And what was the start date?
>> Starting date on the 13th
to the 22nd or 20th.
It's all one week.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
So is what you're telling me,
you first met her
on the 9th of November?
>> That's correct.
>> Judge Judy: And you were
supposed
to start to work on the 13th?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Is that correct?
>> No.
She was supposed to start
on the 12th.
>> Judge Judy: So you only
interviewed
her 2 days before...
>> Of course.
>> Judge Judy: Shh.
Don't speak.
Is what you're telling me,
Ms. McCann, you only interviewed
her 2 days before?
>> We were having contact
through care.com,
messaging each other, and...
>> Judge Judy: I want to know
when you hired her.
>> We set...
I'm not sure the date,
but I think the 9th sounds
probably right.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
On the 9th,
and she was supposed to start,
according to you, on the 12th?
>> Twelfth.
>> Judge Judy:
And, according to you,
on the 11th,
she notifies
you she couldn't take the job.
>> No, the 12th.
>> Judge Judy: On the same day.
>> The same day.
>> Judge Judy: Give me the date
that you started to communicate
with the defendant.
>> Of course.
>> Judge Judy: What date?
Just give me the date.
>> November 1st, I apply.
>> Judge Judy: November 1st.
>> Yes, I apply for her ad.
>> Judge Judy: Is that when you
started to communicate with her?
>> No, we communicated
on the 2nd through care.com
because she called me
through the third party.
>> Judge Judy: So you started
to communicate on the 2nd.
And on what date were you hired?
>> On the 10th, I was hired,
not even
on the day of the appointment.
>> Judge Judy:
May I see proof of that?
>> Yes, of course.
You have here,
and proof of the...
>> Judge Judy:
No, proof of the date
that you were hired.
She said you were hired...
>> Well, it's a verbal
agreement, Judge Judy.
>> Judge Judy: So do you have
any written proof
of the day that you were hired?
>> I do have proof...Yes.
It was...
>> Judge Judy:
I'd like to see it.
>> ...of the hiring.
I'm confused.
Meaning that, if she gave me
any proof that I was hired?
>> Judge Judy: Yes.
I want to know what date
did you tell her that you would,
"Yes, I like you.
You like me,
and it's perfect and will..."
>> It was a verbal conversation
on the phone.
>> Judge Judy: On what...
>> She called me on the 10th.
On the 10th, Judge Judy.
>> Judge Judy: On the 10th.
>> Yes, on the 10th.
>> Judge Judy: Shh.
You were supposed to start
on the 12th?
>> On the 12th,
just for couple of hours to...
>> Judge Judy: I don't care
if it was for 10 seconds.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: You were supposed
to start on the 12th.
>> You're absolutely right.
>> Judge Judy: And on what date
did you tell her
that you could not work for her?
>> On the 12th, in the morning.
>> Judge Judy: On the 12th,
on the day you were...
>> On the 12th --
>> Judge Judy: Shh.