How much was your lawyer?
>> Four thousand dollars.
>> Judge Judy: May I see the
receipt?
>> It's $4,000 plus that $700.
>> Judge Judy: Shh.
>> There's one.
>> Judge Judy: Where is
your younger brother now?
>> He's back in Washington.
He didn't want to come.
>> Judge Judy: Who is he living
with?
>> He's living with my mom.
>> Judge Judy: Where are you
living?
>> I'm living in Everett.
>> Judge Judy: Who are you
living with?
>> With one of my friends.
We're roommates.
>> Your Honor, I also have
a video I'd like you
to watch of Tracy bragging
that he threatened to kill me
and stab me in the neck.
>> Judge Judy: I'd like to see
it.
Were you granted
a restraining order?
>> I was.
>> Judge Judy: For how long?
>> One year.
>> Judge Judy: I feel sorry for
your mother.
>> May I say something,
Your Honor?
>> Judge Judy: Yes.
>> So this what we had
to live with,
and in 2 weeks,
it was absolutely crazy.
The police were at our house,
in a 2-week period,
over 28 times.
>> Because of you.
It's because of her.
>> Your Honor, this is
how he acts.
>> She attacks my mom.
That was my mom's car,
by the way.
I was defending my mother,
you crazy [bleep]
>> Judge Judy: Listen to me.
Listen to me.
The problem, Mr. Hatch, is this.
>> She's crazy, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: No, listen to me.
She can be crazy
in her own house.
Do you understand?
You're entitled to be crazy
and act crazy in your house.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: You're not
entitled to be crazy
in her house.
>> I was crazy outside
of her house.
>> Judge Judy: Shh.
Do you understand
what I'm saying?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Listen.
I want you to calm
for one moment.
Your mother came to live
on her property.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: She wanted to be
in the big house.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: They let her move
into the big house.
It's her property,
not your mom's.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: You and your
brother clearly were incapable
of supporting yourselves,
so your mother prevailed
on her daughter
to let you
come there temporarily.
>> That's correct.
>> Judge Judy: You know, I got
it.
You move in with five dogs.
Immediately,
if it were my house,
I would say, "You know what?
I invited my brother.
I didn't invite my brother
and a menagerie."
Now, while your brother
is there, one of his dogs had a
litter.
So you had more than five.
The litter was four, right?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: So you had nine
dogs, and your mother had two.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: And you and your
younger brother were doing
nothing, and they were paying
all the bills.
So they were paying the gas,
the electric,
the upkeep on the place,
and you and your brother
were doing a zippity-doo-da.ow,
the two of you don't get along.
I don't know if either one of
you or both has mental issues.
That's a possibility.
I don't know,
but if you want to act loony,
you're free to do that.
If she wants to act loony,
she's free
to do that in her house.
And you're free to do that
when you get your own house.
>> Right.
>> Judge Judy: But if you're
going to be unemployed and
incapable of taking care of
yourself, you can't be loony
in somebody else's house.
And I don't care if you're
protecting your mother.
If you're protecting
your mother, get a job
and get a condo with her.
But right now, she was living
with her daughter,
and before you moved in there,
it was okay!
>> It wasn't okay, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Then
she wouldn't have moved there,
and she would've stayed
in the little house
and not moved to the big house,
where she wanted to be.
Before you moved in,
it was okay.
So I find that there was
absolutely no basis
for you to file a restraining
order against her,
and I'm granting them
their counsel fees,
which is $4,000.
We're done.
Thank you.
>> Whoa.
>> Thank you, Your Honor.
>> Byrd: Parties are excused.
You may step out.
>> She's crazy.
>> He is still jobless
and still homeless.
>> The people that know
her will say the same thing
what I'm telling you today.
>> We're just happy
they're gone.
Our house is back to normal.
>> She would just do
what she wants to do,
and she is above the law.
>> We got the restraining order.
He can't come near us.