The People v. The Roommate Who Keeps Eating My Food
Charge: Snack Larceny in the First Degree
Verdict: GUILTY — sentenced to two weeks of grocery restitution
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Someone ate your leftovers. Someone “forgot” the dishes. Someone owes you $20 and amnesia. Settle the argument online in a fully animated AI courtroom: the Honorable Court of Petty Grievances hears your case — with lawyers, a jury, objections, and a verdict of absolutely no legal consequence.
🎉 FIRST TIME IS ALWAYS FREE!*Create an account, and start suing people today →*the pettiness is also free. The court's generosity knows some bounds.Describe the dispute in your own words. No detail is too petty — pettiness is jurisdiction here.
Name the offender — no grievance too petty. They get officially SERVED with a summons to tell their side. 48 hours, or the court proceeds without them.
Screenshots, text messages, witness statements, handwritten fury. Your legal team reviews everything.
A fully animated courtroom hears your case — objections, cross-examinations, and a dramatic final verdict.
Reproduced from the court archives. Names withheld to protect the guilty.
Charge: Snack Larceny in the First Degree
Verdict: GUILTY — sentenced to two weeks of grocery restitution
Charge: Aggravated Non-Participation in Household Chores
Verdict: GUILTY — three weeks of dish duty, no audible sighing
Charge: Failure to Repay with Intent to Forget
Verdict: GUILTY — full restitution plus one sincere compliment per day
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Silly Court is an online AI courtroom that settles petty disputes as fully animated trials. You describe the argument, serve the other party with an official summons, and an AI judge, jury, and two alarmingly committed lawyers hear the case — objections, cross-examination and all. The verdict is dramatic, printable, and 0% legally binding.
File a case describing the dispute — stolen leftovers, chore evasion, an unreturned $20, thermostat crimes — and submit your evidence (screenshots welcome; the court's analysts actually read them). The other party gets a summons link to tell their side, and the court hears you both before ruling on the evidence. Winners print the verdict. Losers historically claim it's "just a website".
Absolutely not, and it says so right on the certificate. Silly Court is comedy — a fake court for real arguments. The verdict settles the vibe, not the law. For disputes with actual stakes, hire an actual lawyer.
They receive an official summons link — it lands in the chat as a YOU GOT SERVED notice — with 48 hours to answer the charge and file evidence of their own. Ignore the court, and the trial may proceed in absentia. Once the case is decided, they can watch the whole trial from the gallery.
The Code of Petty Grievances: the court's own body of law covering Snack Larceny, Aggravated Non-Participation in Household Chores, Failure to Repay with Intent to Forget, and some twenty-five further offenses — each with elements, defenses, and sentencing guidelines.
Browse the full Code of Petty Grievances →Your first case is free with an account. After that, case packs keep the gavel moving. The pettiness itself remains free forever.
Yes — parties can publish their cases to the public Court Records, where rulings of maximum pettiness are preserved for posterity.
Visit the Court Records →The complete law of the land: Snack Larceny, chore evasion, thermostat abuse, and every other offense the court recognizes — with elements, defenses, and sentencing guidelines. Know your rights. Know their wrongs.
Published verdicts from real cases: read how the court ruled on stolen fries, unwashed pans, and friendships tested by twenty dollars. Precedent, of a sort.