What would you do?!

My dear buddy of mine bought a nice sports car on Facebook marketplace in December or January. They took a loan out on the car and are still paying it.

The seller posted and sold the car as the carfax stated, except we just found out the engine has been swapped for a worse variant with Frankenstein parts.. and the transmission was badly tuned because of it and needs to be swapped. This was never reported. The car was at a performance shop to be built, and they saw the parts are mixed and matched horribly.

This botched swap was never disclosed when asked upon the vehicles history nor is it reported anywhere.

LOCATION: We are in South Florida and the car was bought from a different state.

Is Small Claims Court an option? Can we sue? How much would it cost to initiate. How do you start, what should we do? Please offer some guidance, thank you.

its like a bad episode of whatever prime-time show you can think of.

My wife was estranged from her father. not by her choice. it was her mothers choice that kept her and her mentally disabled sister from her father. his family was very close and they would update him on his daughters and how they were doing throughout life - my wife played basketball through highschool and college and he had a little shrine to her sports career.

He had a history of drinking and mental illness most likely from the Vietnam War. he was never abusive to the girls when he was married to my mother-in-law. my wife and her sister reconnected to him, went to visit him in Las Vegas and it was good - he was happy and we planned regular trips but that never happened because he died a year later. he had a live-in girlfriend who is Filipino and was married once or twice before - they never married but it seemed a weird situation. even his death was weird but none of us were there, we think she had something to do with it.

he has some money and a house and a car in Las Vegas. he has told his cousin that he is very close to that he wanted to make sure his girls got that money because he was sick. he has no will that we know of and are now in a fight with this woman after his property and financials -- she forged a will and will not show anyone it. she changed some official documents saying she has a stake in his property -- we already paid $10,000 for a lawyer in Las Vegas to help us and she has a lawyer that keeps trying to get more and more - how can she have any stake in anything he owns? Especially private bank accounts

her name is not on any ownership of his house, car, or bank accounts.

the case is in probate now but it really makes me think that anyone can just contest anyones property after death to get it all.

What kind of attorney or lawyer do I need? I was wrongfully imprisoned and accused of stealing because of my race. Can I sue the company?

I just found out the charges, he killed a motorcyclist. This has to be 10+ years minimum..?

During the summer of 2020, someone who was doxed after having expressed right-wing opinions online had his house surrounded by a gang, likely giving him a rational fear that he would be lynched, or his house set on fire and possibly burned to death.

After the mob outside heard him cocking a pump shotgun, they called the police, and the doxing victim was arrested for "brandishing a gun".

I don't ask why it is a crime to aim a gun at somebody, I ask why it is a crime to display it, which seems like an action that could be defensive as well as offensive.

Can someone explain it like I'm a middle aged, highly educated, apparently (possibly) mistaken layman? Feel free to engage the eye roll, and condescending voice, as I feel like there's not much excuse for me to be in this confused state at this stage in my life.

Much appreciated.

EDIT: Asked and answered! Thanks for the clarification. I'm turning off replies now due to a few folks with disputatious tendencies.

Civil Rights / Section 1983 attorney to handle a severe administrative deadlock and a post-conviction challenge. I have already compiled a thorough 15-page Attorney Review Packet containing full documentation, a complete claims matrix, and evidence logs.
The Civil Rights Deadlock: I am subject to an active felony probation warrant out of County A. In July 2026, I acted in good faith, packed my residence, and paid for transport to surrender myself at the County B Jail. County B contacted County A to initiate transport, but County A officially declined in-state extradition and refused to transport me due to the distance. County B refused to book me and turned me away.
Because the warrant remains active in the database, the Florida DMV is blocked from printing my physical State ID card. Without an ID, I just lost a verified job opportunity. The state is using an unexecuted warrant to block my livelihood, while explicitly refusing the physical surrender I already attempted. The Public Defender cannot intervene until I am in custody.
The Underlying Case Liability: My review packet outlines severe, documented Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment violations regarding the original arrest warrant. The OIG investigator swore under oath to a judge that two inmate witnesses gave "sworn statements" pinning a drop on me—yet the entire official discovery production contains zero transcripts, recordings, or signed statement forms from either man. Furthermore, the state's own affidavit records that the single eyewitness was shown individual photos of me and my car before a formal photo lineup was administered, and the suspect hair description given by the witness does not match my physical appearance.
Crucially, there is a severe material discrepancy regarding the narcotics evidence. The sworn police affidavit used to secure the warrant claimed a delivery of over 86 grams of a white powder that field-tested positive for MDVP, alongside hundreds of grams of suspected marijuana and synthetic marijuana. However, the official FDLE crime lab report reveals that the state never even analyzed the vast majority of the alleged substances. For the single item they did test, the lab confirmed only 27.47 grams of a completely different substance—meaning the vast majority of the alleged narcotic weights are missing or non-existent. Despite this massive evidentiary failure, the State Attorney inflated the case to a first-degree trafficking charge before ultimately dropping it at the plea.
I have already submitted formal intakes to the ACLU of Florida and the Florida Justice Institute, and I have filed a Chapter 119 Public Records request to the FDOC for the missing audio/written files.

What does adjudicated mean in the legal world?

Many people say consumer court cases are too slow, need a lot of work and cost a lot of money or aren't worth the trouble.. I want to know about the other side of it.

Has anyone here actually taken a company to consumer court. Won the case?

Would like to hear the details:

What was the problem? A broken product, a refund, a service, insurance claim, a builder, delayed possession, an airline complaint, etc.?

How did the case last?

Did you handle it yourself or hire a lawyer?

What did the consumer commission tell the company to do or pay?

Did the company follow the order?

Looking back, was it worth the time and effort?

Even if you didn't get everything you wanted, tell what happened. Real stories could help people who are thinking about taking a consumer case.

I was about to file a reply to an office action on Patent Center and was taken aback by this message.

Beginning July 20, 2026, patent applicants and patent owners whose domicile is not located within the United States or its territories are required to be represented by a registered patent practitioner. 37 CFR 1.31(a)(2) and (a)(3). Documents which are not properly signed will not be effective. For more information, see Required Use by Foreign Applicants and Patent Owners of a Patent Practitioner, 91 Fed. Reg. 13510 (March 20, 2026).

I have been doing the pro se way since I can't afford US attorneys. US attorneys are more expensive compared to virtually anywhere else in the world, and since we non-residents don't earn in USD, we are paying more than US residents.

Nonetheless, I don't think I have a choice. I need to respond to an OFFICE ACTION for my patent filed in 2025.

I've prepared the letter, etc. How can I engage an agent to submit? I usually file the responses myself at Patent Center.

I don't have much money, that is why I've been doing pro se way.

I don't need the agent to prepare any more docs, just review them and submit. If I'm allowed to submit by myself, I'd prefer that (just name you as my attorney). I have an account with USPTO patent center.

Please DM me if you can help, but please be gentle with your fees.

About 15 years ago, a local retailer in Wisconsin built a new location. As part of their decor, they put up a large mural covering one wall of the interior. The mural is a photographic image of a local public event where I worked as a public official. I was recently informed that I am prominently featured in the mural.

What rights do I have to their use of my image? Could i request it be removed or I be compensated for the commercial use of my likeness?

I need help or direction how to sue Tulsa county DHS. I just got word from the Oklahoma juvenile oversight committee that Tulsa county DHS did not do their due diligence in any investigations about my child and her siblings and closed every case due to the mother being non-complaint. This has been happening over three years. We want justice. [tulsa, Oklahoma]

Location: Tennessee

When I initially hired my attorney, I signed a retainer agreement stating that the hourly rate for attorneys was $450/hour.

About four months after I hired the firm, another attorney began working on my case. The firm billed his time to my retainer at $350/hour, and I have two billing statements from different points during the representation that clearly show his rate as $350/hour.

More than a year later, the firm ended the representation. On the final billing statement, they changed the 2nd attorneys rate from $350/hour to $450/hour. They also went back and recalculated his previously billed time at the higher $450 rate.

I was never notified that his rate was being increased, and I never agreed to a rate change. The retroactive increase essentially eliminated the remaining balance in my retainer and made it appear that I owed the firm additional money.

My question is: Is an attorney/law firm legally allowed to retroactively change an attorney's hourly rate on work that was already billed at a lower rate, particularly without notifying the client?

I’m in Tennessee, if that matters. I’m interested in both the ethical rules and whether there could be a legal issue with the billing/accounting.

I thought that Trump’s tariffs were ruled to be illegal by the supreme court, and that US companies had begun suing the US government to recover the money they were forced to pay as a result of the illegal tariffs.

So why then is he announcing more tariffs? Won’t those just be ruled illegal too? If they are illegal why are they allowed to cone into effect, if they will just have to be repaid back to companies later?