UPDATE: Dog Park Dispute for all you Judge Judys!

I'm gonna rule in favor of Emma and her mom.
 
First off, this is a dog park, not a social event to which you need to wear your finery, and anyone stupid enough to park $600 sunglasses on top of their head where they WILL fall off, deserves what they get.  The dog park is where you slap on the $ store sunglasses.
 
Often the frame is the mostly costly part of any glasses, so the frame being saved is the bulk of the cost anyhow.
 
However, Emma's mom DOES need to teach a better "leave it" command.

Yeah, I would say wearing $600 sunglasses to a DOG PARK is crazy so the lady got what she deserved.  However, the collar Emma stole could have been found eventually so I just would've kept on looking!  But dogs will play and there always was a chance that the collar did indeed just fall off - the quick release ones can do that. 
 
But yeah, you should assume your own responsibility at a dog park and like Glenda said, wear the cheapo sunglasses.   Looks like Emma has quite the talent for sneaking things away!

LOL, I love how you posed the question.
 
If I were Judge Judy I would definately side with Emma. I agree with what Glenmar said. In fact I think the woman should have to pay Emma a small biscuit fee for teaching her a valuable lesson!
 
It may be so that Emma needs to learn the "leave it" command, but I suspect in this case it happened a bit quickly. Perhaps it is the owner of the sunglasses who needs to learn "leave it at home" when it comes to rediculously priced fashion and her dog park forays.

Some of us can't wear $ Store sunglasses [&:] because we need prescription ones. But I agree with everyone else - if the day is bright enough for sunglasses, keep them on your face, not on your head where they're bound to fall off if you lean over. S**t just happens at a dog park. Unless Emma actually attacked the woman and jerked her glasses off, Emma is not totally to blame. She may need a little more *drop it* training, but that's all.

Joyce

Geez.  Even for prescription glasses, isn't $600 a pair a little high?  I have two pair of line free bifocals - regular and sun - and I didn't pay that much for both pair at LensCrafters.

LOL!!!  The same thing happened to me- only it was my own dog who ruined my sunglasses!  I bent down to pick up poop, glasses fell of head, Jasmine took off with them, joyously running around the park.
I side with Emma, but if I were Emma's mom, I would probably fork out half.
Good God!  Who wears $600 glasses to a dog park?!

First I'm amazed that any glasses cost $600!  Second, if you're gonna wear $600 glasses to a dog park, where you could ally drop the glasses and scratch them on a stone, the ground or whatever, then you're not the brightest bulb on the string.  If you go to a park, you have placed yourself in a situation with risk.  That risk belongs to you.

Ruling:  Case Dismissed.  Let's hope it was a lesson learned by both partys.

I agree $600 sunglasses is crazy -- but I'm not sure that's the point.  If you crash your car into a Lexus and total it, you don't get to replace it with a Toyota because you don't agree that it's necessary to drive such a fancy car to begin with.  You caused the damage and you're responsible for replacing what you broke.  If Emma is at fault for destroying someone else's property than her owner should pay to replace the property.
 
That said, it sure sounds like the sunglass lady is trying to take Emma's owner for a ride.  I'd want to see a written estimate stating that the sunglass repairs actually will cost $600 before I considered paying anything like that.  My guess is she is making that number up and they could be repaired for a lot less. 
 
Regardless it sounds like Emma could use some lessons in "drop it"! 

Same for me Joyce....but mine are progressive lens TRI-focals!  Now granted there is NO distance correction, but TWO reading corrections one for near and one for not so near....like the computer screen.  And mine, with the lenses that change (man I can't remember the name) to darker in the sunlight were around $300....and I have expensive tastes in eyewear.......

I confess, I had a pair that were about $500. Perscription, but it was definitely my taste in frames that made them so spendy.  And I wore them to dog park cause I drove there.  And eventually, my own puppy did a number on them.
 
But in my defense, I was using up flex funds at the end of the year so the sky was the limit![]
 
However, this Judge Judy says it would have been my own fault and responsibility if I dropped them at the dog park and they got munched.  I wear clothes I expect to get dirty, an older coat, etc. - a little damage or wear and tear comes with the territory.

Don't wear your furs, Versace orginals, Italian leather boots, diamond tennis bracelets or anything else expensive to the DOG PARK, for God's sake! Most people wear their ratty sweats or faded Levis to the dog park.. I have to agree about prescription sunglasses, however.  I need them too.

if the dog actually ripped them off the lady's head, then the dog's owner is liable. If lady drops them onto the ground in a dog park, the lady is the one responsible. Anything on the ground in a dog park is fair game for dogs.

That's ridiculous. I wear prescription glasses that cost about $250, but because they cost that much (to me, that's a lot--$600 is not even within the realm of possibility!), I keep them firmly in front of my eyes where they belong! If I'm in a situation in which I need to take them off, I hold them in my hand or put them in my purse/backpack.
 
Other than that, who wears nice stuff to a dog park? I do see people do it sometimes and they spend the entire time there jumping around trying to avoid mud and drool. No one ever has to apologize to me for their dog getting mud and/or drool on me because whatever I'm wearing is most likely going straight into the wash when I get home. Likewise, I don't really apologize to others when my dogs take a big gulp out of the water bowl and then get their drool on peoples' pant legs. Honestly, if you wear your $300 Diesal jeans to the dog park, you deserve whatever you get.
 
That's the one place dogs can go to just be dogs, and outside of aggression or constant jumping-up on people I'm pretty much expecting dogs to be their own sweet muddy/drooly/kleptomaniac selves there. It makes me sad when I see owners who feel the need to micromanage their dogs at the dog park. Just give them an hour a week to just be a dog, for pete's sake!

Lord have mercy. Who in their right mind would wear $600 sunglasses to a dog park? Probably the same idiots who wear nice clothes to the dog park and get their drawers in a wad because dogs are rubbing up against them/jumping on them/sniffing them. They are probably the same half wits who bring their leashed dog to a dog park and refuse to let him off leash and can't understand why he's acting aggressive towards the other off leash dogs who come by him. They are probably the same fruit loops who bring their small children to a dog park and flip out when a Lab bumps into the kid and knocks him on his butt. These are the same nut jobs that were discussed a while back who accused someone of "hogging" the dog park because she was reading a paper while her dogs frolicked and the idiot wanted to use the dog park for herself because her dog is aggressive.
 
Now as to my "Judge Judy" assessment. I don't think this lady deserves jack. She didn't maintain proper control of her property(glasses) and due to her negligence they got chomped on by a dog. Let that be a lesson learned. If you're going to bring $600 glasses into a dog park, it's best you keep them in a place where they cannot be damaged such as your purse, coat pocket or leave them in your car.
 
In all honesty, if this case were taken to Judge Judy I believe she'd rule in favor of the idiot who got her glasses chewed on. Maybe it's been a while but I've seen a few JJ cases involving dogs and she seems to be anti-dog ESPECIALLY when it comes to Pit Bulls and Rottweilers. She believes that people who own such dogs do so for "certain reasons" and she means that in a negative way.

MY HEAVENS, $600 for SUNGLASSES?  WHAT THE HECK?  Anywho, for what it is worth I side with Emma and her momma with the provisory caution to teach Emma the "leave it" command.