Video: Tell It to the Judges

Oyez! Oyez! Daytime TV fills up its courtroom docket

Looking for real-life drama in the daytime? Forget about General Hospital and Days of Our Lives; consider the "Case of the Prom Night Fallout." A 16-year- old girl and her mother sue a hair salon for $150, claiming that a permanent the girl received was so bad that she had to miss her high school prom. In the mood for weightier legal matters? A high school teacher brings a sex- discrimination suit against her school board, charging that she was fired because she got pregnant -- without a husband. Or how about a juicy family squabble? The grandparents of little Tawny...

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