Chicago Car Repair Company and False Advertising: How Can I Get My Car Back?
I live in Chicago and I have an auto repair company D& J Car Care that will not release my car to me and is trying to charge me an outrageous fee for a diagnostic test.
Instead of the $39.95 advertised price, they are trying to charge me $100.00. They’ve had my car since 1/12/2010, yet they have failed to contact me in writing. I have had work done there in the past 1 1/2 yrs. I signed nothing.
What, if any, recourse do I have to get my car back?
Bankrupty Adversary Proceeding Question
This question is in regards to a Bankruptcy Adversary Proceeding…
Q: Are oral statements over the phone, regarding business line of credit Application (no wriiten or signed contract) admissible under 523(a)(2)(A) of the US Bankruptcy code?
Can I Sue Employer For This Drug Testing?
Can I sue my employer for unprofessional drug testing?
My brother and I work for the same company and we recently had a surprise drug test. While we were waitng I had an emergency to run to and left. My brother stayed and was afraid he was going to fail his drug test so he picked my paperwork up and took my drug test. The owners wife was doing the drug test at the facility and never asked for any type of I.D. I was reviewing DOT laws about drug testing and my company didnt comply to the rule about identification.
Can I sue?
Can Restaurant Workers Join a Union?
I want to know if there is anyway the people who work in the restaurant industry can form a union. I know a lot of people who have been injured on the job and the workers compensation to live off of due to bad tips and low hourly is brutal.
The wage is about $4.80/hr plus tips but the hours that we work and all the double shifts and the way employers can let us go so easily. We are overworked and easily taken advantage of. A lot of sexual harassment goes on and a lot of illegal immigrants get taken advantage of too.
FMHA Mortgage Loan Sold: Need to Refinance But Can’t Due to USDA
We bought our house back in 1988 and took a loan from FMHA, they then sold our loan down the line to USDA. We are fighting with them. They told us if we refinance the house we have to buy at today’s value, and not what we bought it at. That is a predatory loan. We do not agree and need major repairs done and will not do them because of them. They have done this too so many people and everybody has walked away from their homes and bought another under a bank. We have had this house for over 20 years and put money into it. We need help please.
Boyfriend Threatens Mother: Can a Civil Lawsuit Be Filed Against Him?
Can I file a civil lawsuit against my mother’s boyfriend due to emotional & physical abuse he has caused her and her family?
He has threatened to kill her with a scissors ( he was arrested for that). He has threatened to lock her up in a garage in the dead of winter. He has threatened to let the air out of her car tires. He has threatened to rip up her clothes. I can go on with this list. Please advise.
Can I sue the Chicago Board of Education For Abuse of My Children?
Good morning. I appreciate you taking the time to read this. I am writing you because I want to sue the chicago board of education, but don’t have the money to due so. But I will feel so terrible, if the chicago public school system get away with what they have done to my children and I.
In September of 2008, my children were enrolled in a chicago public school for the first time. One in the first grade, and one in kindergarten. It was the worst experience, an experience that I never want to go through again, and do not want any one else to have to go through it. I did not trust this school with my children. My kids were coming home complaining about the things that would go on there. I constantly complained but nothing came out of it.. I even started volunteering at the school, and attending every field trip with my children.
While I was there, I witnessed children being hit by teachers, students confessed to me how they were being beaten by the disciplinarian and staff, and how the principle knew about it na ddid nothing. Fighting the school system takes so much out of you because it’s designed for the wrong doers to get away with things that they shouldn’t be doing. One of my son’s teacher hit him on the head. He was in kindergarten. As soon as I brought up the issue of physical abuse to the principle with my son and other students, I was followed and harrassed by staff members including the principle.
My children were harrassed as well. I was followed in school and out. The children there are beaten. They are verbally and physically abused. I tried to reach out to the ceo of public schools and he has ignored me. My children were frightened to go to school and missed a lot of days out of school because of it. My son was stabbed in the hand with a pencil by another student, and they did not notify me. My son stapled his finger because the teacher was negligent, I was banned from attending field trips with my children, I was banned from voluntering, and kicked out of my son’s classroom because I notified the Chicago board of education about the abuse that was going on at the school.
I have parents who will testify that the same thing happened to them when they reported the abuse as well. Children will stand up and tell you about the abuse. They even sent a security gaurd to follow and harass me one field trip.
How can they get away with this? My children and I didn’t deserve that kind of treatment. I want to sue with every ounce of energy in my body but I don’t have the money. If someone would only take an interest in my case it would mean the world to me because my children and I were severely affected by this. Why should I have to pack up an move to suburbs for my kids to have a quality school and eduaction. They even took my kindergarten son in a room alone and interrogated him. He was frightened and didnt want to go back.
Please help me. And if you cant, can you please refer someone to me who would help me even if I couldnt pay them until we won our case, and I really do believe we have a winning case, if someone would just take an interest. And care about children being abused.
Thank you
Can I Sue A Pet Store Owner For This?
Can I sue a pet store owner for not reimbursing me for the cost of the pet which I had to put down due to multiple aggressive attacks over time which resulted in injuries?
Mother, 85 and Unstable: What Are Our Options With a Will and/or Trust?
My mother is 85 and just re-wrote her will herself. It is really a trust. To me it seems to be full of loopholes and unclear statements. Verbally, she has told all 4 of her children for MANY years that everything is to be divided equally when she dies, so that has been well-understood by all. She doesn’t want to take this to a lawyer because she thinks she can do this herself. She wants to keep it out of probate.
1.) She’s not thinking as clearly as she used to, but she’s not incompetent. Some paranoia. Seems to be very dependent upon a live-in brother, age 55, who takes minimal care of her (cooks, takes out garbage, mows)
2.) Our brother is 55 and living with her…has been living there for 20 years. He doesn’t work, lives an adolescent-type lifestyle of staying up until 3 a.m. and sleeping until noon. It is a complicated relationship, but basically is a co-dependent dysfunctional one in which she needs him so enables him, and he needs her and accepts. She pays him to run her errands, take her to the doctor, clean her house, etc.
3.) Due to instability of this brother and past observations of odd behavioral tendencies, we (the other 3 siblings) really don’t trust him too much.
4.) He has a legal background and has encouraged her to rewrite the will. The role of the executor has been eliminated and each of the 4 children have been given roles. 1 is to be treasurer, 1 handle appraisals, 1 (the live-in) handle ALL LEGAL WORK, 1 keep all the records and keep the peace among the siblings
5.) This has raised several red flags for me. She’s not thinking as clearly. She has not had an impartial lawyer look at it. I think there are a lot of assumptions being made…# 1 that everyone will be trustworthy and honorable in all proceedings.
I also think she has set us up for a big family feud. The live-in brother keeps telling her it is a good document and she doesn’t need a lawyer. I can’t help but to be concerned that he has something up his sleeve. He is and will be the most desperate of the siblings for money. He has high debts, has never held a good job, and I’m afraid he might do something desperate to get more than his fair share of the inheritance.
Question: I don’t want to appear greedy or mailcious, but is there anything we can do?
She has signed it and it is legal now from what she says, but no one has a signed copy but the live-in brother. She is now (after the fact) asking for input. I wanted to suggest a statement saying that any services provided by the live-in brother have been in exchange for room, board and any care he has provided for the past 20 years. My only thought is that he might try to charge her estate for taking care of her for the last 20 years, which he has not. He has only cared for her for about a year or two .
Question: What are our options with a trust?
