Judge Judy seemed to find the matter slightly amusing and also seemed to like Lydon despite the fact that she had to instruct him to be quiet on a few occasions. She had no idea who he was and had never heard of his band! She said: "I don't know of this band. This last band I heard was Lawrence Welk… Jimmy Dorsey… Tommy Dorsey… I don't know. Those are bands!"
She said that Williams was a "nudnick" who expected too much order in a chaotic world that is the music business. She suggested he should get himself a nice, quiet office job as it seemed the music industry was not for him.
After that she dismissed the case and John Lydon did not have to pay Williams a cent. In 2008 Lydon was again charged, this time for beating a woman in Los Angeles because his hotel room was not to his liking.
