We’ve been recounting some of the history of Long Beach resident Star Harris–whose slip-and-fall lawsuit against a Long Beach 7-Eleven franchise comes to court in San Pedro on Oct. 29–and some of the 36 separate court cases she and her mother Debro Saad have involved in, since 1995.

Yesterday we told you how Harris and Saad often represent themselves in court–and lose–and how some of the people winning judgments against them have been their former landlords. But landlords aren’t the only people doing the litigating, and winning judgments against either Saad or Harris.

According to court records obtained by The District, Long Beach hairstylist Susan Burgess sued Harris six years ago and won more than $80,000.

Burgess sued Harris in 2001, alleging that Harris’s then-business, Starz Barber and Beauty Salon “was trying to ride on the coattails” of Burgess’s business, Stars Salon, a block away.

“The management would send me the guests in all the hotels,” says Burgess, whose salon is in the 400 block of East Ocean Boulevard. Some of those guests would mistakenly visit Starz Barber–in the 400 block of East First Street–“and have a bad experience. I was getting in bad with all the hotels,” says Burgess, who won an $87,092 judgment against Harris. The court also mandated Harris change the name of her salon.

Burgess says Harris has never paid her a cent, but Harris–who represented herself in court–sees the outcome differently.

“I didn’t have to change [the name]. The city allowed that to be my [business] name,” Harris says. “I don’t care what court records say. The City of Long Beach okayed that. I’ll have a bankruptcy filing before I allow anybody to get a dime of my money.”

That’s interesting, but the real question is why Harris and Saad–who hired lawyer Damon Martin to represent them in the 7-Eleven case–haven’t employed an attorney sooner, if they keep losing like this.

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