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Two years ago I was offered a job in Louisiana by a friend. The job was working with my friend digitizing records in radio stations making a good amount of cash, and the company hiring us to do this work would also pay our rent. Sounds too good to be true right?

So we end up moving down there into this big rental house, which I was ok with because the company is going to be paying the rent. Only thing is, the job has been postponed for a couple months so we both needed to get jobs to pay the bills until the job started.

So, 3 months later, my roommate has started acting pretty strange. Very secretive, moody, seems angry a lot, goes out a lot. I think they're doing drugs. I ask about the job, have they heard anything about it, and I get stony glares and "stop bothering me about it already, it'll be soon." Always soon. The job is starting soon.

So I decide to look at the situation I'm in. I can't afford the rental because it's way too expensive for what I make. I can't stand the roommate anymore because it seems as if I'm being lied to about this fantasy job and the person I moved in with is not the person I'm dealing with now.

So I leave. I break the lease and just take off. The landlord got in touch with me and said I'd be responsible for that month's rent and the next months. I didn't pay because I figured it would just go away, or that the ex-roommate would pay it knowing they'd done me wrong.

So here we are, two years later, and I get a summons in the mail. I'm being sued by the ex-roommate for almost 3 grand for breaking the lease, 2 months rent, utilities, and moving expenses for them.

My question is, do I have a case? I would have never signed the contract had I known the job was a lie. What case do they have against me? Do judges make exceptions like this in court?
<bot>: Signed a lease with a friend who said the job they offered me would pay the rent. Broke the lease because I found out the friend was lying about everything. I'm being sued now, do I have a chance in court?