(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) **LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED, GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF TRAUMATIC DEATH INVOLVING CHILDREN** Shortly after 2:00 A.M. on July 23, 1982, actor Vic Morrow paced nervously in front of a mock Vietnamese village at the Indian Dunes park just north of Los Angeles. Morrow could not help but feel uneasy as he watched the Huey helicopter approach the village for a final rehearsal. Years earlier, Morrow had had a premonition that he was going to die in a helicopter crash. . . . This is the story of ego, arrogance, a manslaughter trial, and the conduct of Director John Landis and his production team that resulted in the deaths of My-ca Dinh Le (7) , Renee Shin-Li Chen (6), and Vic Morrow (53). ***The YouTube video for this episode includes actual footage of a helicopter crash resulting in death. Viewer discretion advised.*** - CLICK HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice - Follow @RebuttalPod on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Follow @Rebmasel on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! *** 0:00 - CONTENT WARNING 0:11 - The Night Of 6:56 - The Case 7:59 - The Director 12:01 - The "Animal House" Era 15:47 - The "Blues Brothers" Era & The Ballooning Ego of John Landis 23:06 - Landis's Script For "Twilight Zone: The Movie"....Uh.... 27:46 - Landis Hates Child Labor Laws :( 34:59 - The Production Team Hates Laws and/or Their Job 45:26 - The Days Prior & The Night Of (WTF....) 57:49 - John Landis & Co. Is The Worst (Still) 1:00:43 - The Manslaughter Trial 1:27:29 - The Verdict 1:32:55 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) How far would you go for your wardrobe? 16 years of litigation, perhaps? Witness the unraveling of Judge Roy Pearson in Pearson v. Chung (2007). *** CLICK HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠ to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠! Follow @Rebmasel on ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠! *** 0:00 - Intro 00:17 - Case begins 2:31 - The Infamous Pants 5:18 - Roy demands...a lot 7:49 - *PRETENDS TO BE SHOCKED* 9:26 - Motions and appeals and...you might be fired? 10:40 - You are broke 12:26 - Sue the city? Sure 13:09 - One Cook, Losing Kitchen 16:19 - Pearson gets disciplined 21:14 - Where are they now? 22:58 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) “His statement was that [the other man] had summoned ‘Bigfoot’ to come and kill him. That’s why he had to kill [him first]. . . " Sasquatch is (somehow) always in court. Let's go hunting. These are the Bigfoot cases. *Reb's reference to an incomplete (but larger) list of Bigfoot case law: Click here *** ⁠⁠⁠⁠CLICK HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠ to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠! Follow @Rebmasel on ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠! *** 0:00 - Intro 4:39 - CASE #1 (Broke and Afraid) 13:22 - CASE #2 (Sasquatch Hitman) 21:58 - CASE #3 (California, Recognize Our 'Feet) 30:05 - CASE #4 (Canada, You Too) 32:30 - CASE #5 ("PLEASE kill him here" -Texas, for some reason) 34:05 - CASE #6 (Sasquatch Protection Ordinances) 39:18 - CASE #7 (Shots Fired) 39:40 - CASE #8 (THE GOAT MAN....?!?!?!?!) 49:34 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Do all 50 States (and their courts) agree on what IS and IS NOT a deadly weapon? Of course not. Ask the raccoons, honeybees, alligators, plastic chairs, ladles, shoes, bare hands, dogs, toy guns, teeth, and .....eggs. Reb tells you why the difference between simple assault and felony assault with a deadly weapon as a matter of law can get.....very confusing. LINK TO FULL COURT OPINION FROM BARE HANDS SECTION - U.S. v. Rocha, 598 F.3d 1144 (9th Cir. 2010) (14 pages to explain why attacking someone with your bare hands is not assault with a deadly weapon) *** ⁠⁠⁠CLICK HERE⁠⁠⁠ to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠! Follow @Rebmasel on ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠! *** 0:00 - Intro 3:10 - Cowboy Cody, a mule, and a raccoon (KY 2025) 20:30 - Honeybee warfare (MA 2022) 24:51 - A 75-year-old wife throws a chair and a ladle (MA 2022) 28:40 - WHAT IS A "DEADLY WEAPON" THEN...? 34:30 - A Wendy's Frosty and a Florida gator (FL 2016) 39:53 - Don't make me use my...bare hands? (CA 2010) 43:15 - MMA FIGHTERS AND MARTIAL ARTISTS (TX 2013) 46:17 - Biting with HIV/AIDS (NY 1999) 48:16 - DOGS AS DEADLY WEAPONS 50:06 - What if the gun is a toy? (CA 1987) 51:38 - Tasers and pepper spray are deadly weapons??!?!?! 58:18 - Eggs can be bullets, too 59:50 - LIST OF THINGS MOST COMMONLY CONSIDERED "DEADLY WEAPONS" 1:01:42 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Thinking of dabbling in a bit of crime? Annoying your neighbor? Getting back at a crazy ex? Scamming people? Couponing? Pulling a prank? Putting a piece of paper inside a mailbox? Dressing up as a USPS postal worker for fun? Wherever your criminal exploits may take you, try your very best to adhere to one not-so-simple rule: DO NOT MESS WITH THE MAIL. These are the USPIS Postal Inspectors. Reb Recommends: Tales of a Gay Postal Inspector: You Can't Make This Stuff Up! by Marcus Greenspan Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C. *** ⁠⁠CLICK HERE⁠⁠ to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠! Follow @Rebmasel on ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠! *** 0:00 - Intro 4:46 - What is the USPIS? 10:11 - The "Silent Service" (Suddenly I'm patriotic) 34:56 - CASES BEGIN - JUST A FEW NOTORIOUS USPIS SHAKEDOWNS 36:06 - Steve Bannon 41:45 - The Black Hand Mafia 52:44 - Charles Ponzi (Yes, THAT Ponzi) 56:00 - The Unabomber 58:24 - The McMillions Game 1:03:07 - The Coupon Lady 1:05:54 - LIKE THE "G" IN LASAGNA, THE USPIS MOVES IN SILENCE 1:06:31 - The Smithsonian National Postal Museum Is Insanely Good 1:07:55 - Tales of a Gay Postal Inspector Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) "Here, a husband and wife have been marinating in a mutual hatred so intense as to surely amount to a personality disorder requiring treatment." –Judge Joseph W. Quinn Divorce is messy. Bruni v. Bruni (2010) is messier. Listen to Reb raise a glass to the unholiest of matrimonies. (***You can find an extremely helpful diagram of the people involved in this case and their relationship to one another at the 30-minute mark of the YouTube video for this episode!) *** ⁠CLICK HERE⁠ to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠Twitter⁠! Follow @Rebmasel on ⁠TikTok⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Twitter⁠! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In 1870, a dog named Old Drum is shot and killed by his owner’s neighbor in Missouri. In 1457, a sow and her piglets are put on trial for the murder of a child. In 2016, a parrot repeats the words “Don’t shoot!” in his murdered owner’s voice, and many more...Humans aren't the only ones contributing to chaos in our courtrooms. Animal (Court)House. Let’s get into it. CLICK HERE to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) **CONTENT WARNING: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF TORTURE** On March 15, 2025, President Trump announced the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua was conducting "irregular warfare" against the United States and that members would be deported under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The Trump Administration quickly began deporting people allegedly affiliated with the gang—without any semblance of due process—via direct flights to a notoriously deadly El Salvadoran prison. A few days later, the Trump Administration told a federal judge it was invoking the "state secrets privilege" to refuse to provide any information to the Courts about these flights, the people they've put on them, or what (if any) evidence they had to support doing so. As attorneys in this still-ongoing court battle [J.G.G. v. Trump (2025)] fight to stop Trump's unsanctioned deportations under the AEA, new legal questions abound: Is the Executive Branch blatantly violating Judicial orders? Are we in a Constitutional crisis yet? What is the Alien Enemies Act? What is the state secrets privilege? Were Administrations already abusing it before Trump? Can the Trump administration invoke the privilege to "disappear" whoever they choose? What happens now? Reb gives you everything she knows on all of those topics and more. This is J.G.G. v. Trump (2025), United States v. Reynolds (1953), FBI v. Fazaga (2022), and United States v. Zubaydah (2022). **IMPORTANT NOTE**: This episode is expected to go live on April 3, 2025, the same day the parties in J.G.G. v. Trump (2025) are set to appear in a hearing before Judge Boasberg on his Order to Defendants to show cause why they did not violate the Court's Temporary Restraining Orders. Judge Boasberg is expected to rule on the DOJ's invocation of the state secrets privilege sometime thereafter. The case is ongoing and any further updates beyond April 2 will not be covered in this episode because Reb cannot time travel. Yet. *** CLICK HERE to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Content Warning 0:32 - Intro / Necessary Context 6:40 - Background on J.G.G. v. Trump (2025) 8:25 - Secrets secrets are no fun 9:45 - A photo op isn't a secret y'all 13:30 - The Alien Enemies Act of 1798?? Really??? 24:18 - Everyone is probably just stupid 27:06 - DRAMA (WITH TIMESTAMPS) OF (LIKELY) COURT ORDER VIOLATIONS 41:15 - Constitutional crisis incoming 42:20 - Trump admin loves to tweet (themselves to hell) 47:52 - The Hail Mary 53:20 - THE STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE 53:45 - United States v. Reynolds (1953) 58:10 - The state secrets privilege is...messy 1:05:14 - ABUSE OF THE PRIVILEGE POST-9/11 1:11:30 - CIA "black sites" (TORTURE IN POLAND) 1:14:50 - FBI v. Fazaga (2022) 1:15:05 - TORTURE IN POLAND 1:16:50 - United States v. Zubaydah (2022) 1:20:43 - GORSUCH DISSENT IS...FIRE? 1:24:09 - CONTENT WARNING (TORTURE) 1:26:07 - Zubaydah wants to depose his torturers 1:30:00 - His torturers don't STFU about being torturers 1:39:02 - Gorsuch concludes with a BANG 1:42:10 - The wrong administration 1:43:05 - CAN THE TRUMP ADMIN SUCCESSFULLY USE THE PRIVILEGE? 1:46:18 - SIDEBAR: Another Judge CHEWED THEM UP 1:51:14 - REB'S REBUTTAL  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) An Alcatraz Island kidnapper is hired by the child he kidnapped 30 years later. Listen to Reb snatch the (kinda heartwarming but mostly traumatizing?) details of Waley v. United States (9th Cir. 1949). *** CLICK HERE to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Do cats have free speech rights? How did Blackie the Talking Cat cause this much (legal) trouble? Reb finds out in Miles v. City Council of Augusta, Georgia (11th Cir. 1983). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Huge shoutout to Alyssa, our new Rebuttal Podcast editor! *** 0:00 - Intro 2:35 - CASE BEGINS 6:16 - Blackie's lore 12:40 - Blackie takes CASH ONLY 16:23 - Blackie supports the family<3 18:55 - THE LAW 20:03 - THE LAWSUIT 21:11 - Pets need free speech :( 22:00 - Court's Analysis (BARS!) 29:50 - Freak flags deserve to fly<3 31:37 - Court's Holding 32:01 - Wait...what can the court consider? 34:14 - THE BEST JUDGE FOOTNOTE EVER 37:17 - Famous last words :'( 38:14 - REB'S REBUTTAL *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) The FBI threatens to put innocent people on the No Fly List unless they agree to become unpaid FBI informants spying on their (also innocent) communities. Why? Because the FBI pretty much guarantees that random, erroneous, overinclusive, islamophobic nominations to the No Fly List will be approved, and since the process is cloaked in secrecy, there wasn't a clear way to stop them. Until now. Fikre v. FBI (2013) and Tanzin v. Tanvir (2020) are only two of many cases challenging the No Fly List’s erroneous overinclusion and the FBI’s islamophobia. Learn about more: https://www.aclu.org/cases/kashem-et-al-v-barr-et-al-aclu-challenge-government-no-fly-list https://www.aclu.org/cases/chebli-v-kable-lawsuit-challenging-placement-no-fly-list Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 1:12 - Case begins 4:11 - YONAS FIKRE v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (2013) (SCOTUS Opinion 2024) 4:35 - The FBI threatens Muslim citizens with the No Fly List 9:16 - SCOTUS does something correct for once 12:31 - WHAT IS THE NO FLY LIST? 15:02 - What CAN’T you do on the No Fly List? 15:54 - Everything goes back to 9/11, y’all 21:05 - OPAQUE, OVER-INCLUSIVE, INACCURATE 23:00 - Islamophobia in our FBI (pretends to be shocked) 23:27 - Kyle Rittenhouse, Jan 6ers, etc. = "white Christians" = not on the No Fly List...?! 30:26 - Watchlists are…QUOTAS?! 31:51 - WHAT????????!!!!!!! 36:04 - How can we respect the Watch Lists?! 39:32 - More cases pending (like TANZIN V. TANVIR (2020)) 42:20 - REB’S REBUTTAL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) What do Henry Ford's Model-T car, banning alcohol in the United States, and the FBI have in common? We needed all three to (1) catch American gangster John Dillinger and (2) make it federally legal to steal planes...FOR 26 YEARS. Learn how to legally steal a plane in 1926 and destroy evidence in 2007! Don't believe it? Well, the U.S. Supreme Court already does! Listen to Reb fly the skies and dump some fish in McBoyle v. United States (1931) and Yates v. United States (2015). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - INTRO/DISCLAIMER (RECENT AVIATION DISASTERS) 5:48 - Jailbreak 7:40 - Dillinger gets whacked over….one cop car?! 9:02 - Our first car, our first FBI, our first Amendment banning alcohol 11:39 - The Dyer Act 13:35 - STEAL A PLANE WITHOUT BREAKING THE LAW 14:48 - Summary of events because what the hell is going on 17:35 - Evidence against McBoyle (more questions, no answers) 28:39 - The Dyer Act indictment 29:05 - We love a self-propelled vehicle 34:41 - Supreme Court time 35:25 - RULE OF “LENITY” IN THE COURTS 36:48 - It’s veHICLES, baby 38:06 - SCOTUS OPINION 44:50 - If it were 1931, you’d probably be good 49:07 - DESTROY EVIDENCE WITHOUT BREAKING THE LAW 53:36 - SCOTUS says fish are friends not paper 58:32 - REB’S REBUTTAL IS FIRE THIS WEEK ACTUALLY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) At 10:27PM on December 3, 2024, South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol went live on television while his country was sleeping to declare martial law. His country fought back. After all was said and done, Yoon's martial law proclamation lasted only 6 and a half hours. Hawaii's lasted three years. Internment camps, forced labor, military tribunals, and a pause on all constitutional and due process liberties. Curfews, blackouts, barbed wire covering the beaches. Death penalties and forced blood donations. Thousands of Japanese residents were rounded up and put behind barbed wire, while every Hawaiian was forced to live under total, merciless military control. "It's too expensive to ship them somewhere," U.S. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox remarked. "Just make the islands an internment camp." This is Duncan v. Kahanamoku (1946). *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 3:46 - Martial law drama (South Korea edition) 7:20 - WHAT GRINDS REB'S GEARS 19:24 - Martial law drama (South Korea edition) cont. 28:47 - Democracies are fragile! <3 34:24 - MARTIAL LAW IN THE USA 35:44 - Harry White's arrest 37:09 - No one knows WTF "martial law" means 39:34 - 1941 HAWAII UNDER MARTIAL LAW 44:53 - Why was martial law so bad? 50:00 - Japanese internment tales 56:44 - NO RIGHTS, NO JUSTICE 57:13 - Insane punishments 58:33 - Saffrey Brown Murder 1:02:08 - SUPREME COURT CLOCKS IN (kinda) 1:09:55 - Reb's Rebuttal 1:13:15 - BONUS! HOW THE U.S. STOLE HAWAII Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Out of nowhere, your front door explodes. You see a man with a gun run through your door and up the stairs, firing shots at the police chasing after him. Luckily, you run for cover before a SWAT team begins their "protocol" to flush him out - explosives, toxic gasses, grenades, BearCat armored tanks, robots, and chemical weapons hit every inch of your home. Eventually, the situation is secure. The neighborhood is safe. Police followed "all necessary protocol." Your house? Destroyed. Your personal belongings? Melted by explosives. Your cat? Blind and deaf from the events. And you? Hopefully financially stable. Because neither insurance nor the courts will help you. In fact, a judge says that the City police department doesn’t owe you a dime. This is Baker v. City of McKinney (2020) (cert. denied 2024). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! * * * 0:00 - Intro 3:01 - Baker v. City of McKinney (2020) 7:20 - A 15 year-old hostage in tow 10:06 - Tomfoolery begins / SWAT blow a house to smithereens 21:06 - Not the first nor the last! 30:12 - Lech v. City of Greenwood Village (2015) / Two Belts, One Shirt 38:56 - Cops lie in police reports (pt. 47982347372492) 41:10 - SWAT team turns Lech's house into chemical weapons target practice and I'm not even joking 42:53 - The goddamn robots 53:49 - Victims galore 56:28 - Varlitskiy v. County of Riverside, CA, et al. (2024) 1:02:06 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Reb hits you with rapid fire summaries of 13 lawsuits filed in 2003 that are unhinged enough to make it on Rebuttal (the legal sanctuary of chaos and calamity, of course). *** 0:00 - Intro / Life update 4:16 - The Docked Dog Tail Case 8:55 - The Condom Soup Case 10:48 - Port-A-Potty Prison 12:32 - Depose The Parrot 13:59 - Suing The Casino Instead of Your Husband 15:43 - Convicted Felon Wants His Playstation Back 17:18 - BREAKING: Lightning Loves Cars 18:16 - Kid Sues High School For $50 Million 19:49 - Lion Beats Your Crappy Bullet (Yay!) 21:05 - Dancing With The Scars 22:03 - Don't Record Your Local Grandma 23:14 - She's Just Not That Into You 24:15 - Black Pepper Throws Hands 26:52 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) A chicken farmer, World War II, and 150 suicidal chickens were the only ones up to the task to answer this question for the Supreme Court. No, I'm not joking. This is United States v. Causby (1946). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 00:40 - Case begins 3:00 - The Takings Clause 3:30 - The Causbys and their crime scene coop 7:26 - The Causbys get a (good) lawyer / Lower court case 10:00 - US Supreme Court arguments 17:41 - Supreme Court's analysis + holding 26:46 - After Causby...seriously, who owns it? / Drones are a problem y'all 37:43 - Wait, what about the Causbys? 37:52 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Being a lawyer is a stressful job, and we all handle the anxiety of this high-pressure field in different ways. Some enjoy pilates, others indulge in junk food, a few find relief at the bottom of a liquor bottle. But in 2023, one lawyer's preferred method of "blowing off steam" made headlines. It read: "BREAKING: LAWYER SUSPENDED FOR POOPING IN A PRINGLES CAN AND THRO-" Listen at your own risk to find out the rest. Reb washes her hands and unpacks Ohio Bar v. Blakeslee (2023). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 0:45 - Brief background on State Bars and the moral character application 6:57 - Headline / Case starts / James (Jack) Blakeslee 11:27 - His “Pringles Prank” defense 14:07 - Ethics case against Blakeslee 16:25 - Reb’s several concerns 24:20 - Ohio Supreme Court Opinion - Ohio Bar v. Blakeslee (2023) 32:40 - Discipline and 2024 Update 34:50 - Reb’s Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) On December 31, 1918, Colonel Luke Lea of the 114th Field Artillery Regiment handed his commanding officer a request for leave from his post in Allied-occupied Luxembourg. He would not say where he was going or what he intended to do, though he assured the general he had nothing to worry about. General Spaulding called it the "strangest request for leave he had ever read," but approved it anyway. After all, Luke Lea was not just an excellent officer, he was also a successful lawyer, newspaper publisher, and one-term senator from Tennessee. How much trouble could he possibly get into..... Grab a baseball and an ashtray (trust me). Reb is breaking down State v. Wallace B. Davis, Luke Lea, & Luke Lea, Jr. (1932), but more importantly, all of the unbelievable chaos that happened before it. Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro w/ Executive Producer Simba 2:59 - CASE STARTS / LET’S GO BACK TO WWI 4:00 - Colonel Luke Lea needs a vacation to be a nuisance 6:00 - Tennesseans only 6:59 - We’re kidnapping whomst? 7:46 - What’s the Kaiser been up to these days? 11:40 - COLONEL LUKE LEA’S *MESSY* LORE 12:41 - Bloody Tennessee political drama 16:07 - Luke’s newspaper is now TMZ 19:12 - A good ol’ fashioned duel in the street 20:32 - Luke is messy and reaps the benefits 22:30 - REB’S SUMMARY OF ALL THAT CHAOTIC BEEF & LUKE LEA LORE 24:20 - The U.S. declares war, Luke joins the Army 24:50 - What was the plan here, babes? 27:23 - It’s Armistice Time! No need to ~arm~ the stice! 28:07 - Colonel Lea takes a vacation to….somewhere…. 29:05 - ONLY Tennesseans allowed on my poorly planned kidnapping mission 30:00 - SUDDENLY I’M PATRIOTIC / LARRY MACPHAIL BASEBALL LEGEND 34:32 - KIDNAPPING ROAD TRIP IN A CADILLAC 42:05 - The border is crossed, shenanigans ensue 56:32 - #AshtrayGate 57:45 - PUNISHMENT….? 1:06:57 - I think Luke is a weirdo / Luke dabbles in felonies back home in the States 1:11:59 - What happened to Kaiser Wilhelm II, his cool ashtray, and the MLB guy who stole it? 1:12:58 - REB’S REBUTTAL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In America, unaccompanied children are forced to represent themselves in immigration court. That's right. Children as young as infants to teenagers. Each year, thousands of immigrant children are placed into court proceedings in which government prosecutors seek to deport them unless those children can prove they have a right to stay in the United States. While the U.S. government may provide pillows and booster seats for children who are too small for the chairs in immigration court, the government does NOT have to give them an attorney to protect their rights. In this episode, Reb tells these children's stories and interviews attorneys Amanda Doroshow and Lauren Esterle with the Acacia Center for Justice who have firsthand experience advocating for these children both inside the courtroom and beyond. LINKS TO RESOURCES AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: https://acaciajustice.org/ https://acaciajustice.org/careers/students/ https://justicecorps.org/justice-fellowship/ Thank you to the Acacia Center for Justice, Amanda Doroshow, and Lauren Esterle for making this episode a reality. Your presence, advocacy, and brilliance is second to none. 0:00 - Intro 1:50 - Guillermo's Story 5:23 - The Law - Unaccompanied children in U.S. immigration court 7:51 - What rights do unaccompanied children have? 9:25 - Why lawyers are CRUCIAL 14:00 - Legally, what is an "unaccompanied child"? 16:25 - Recent cases on this issue - What do the courts say? 21:48 - Treatment of children in Juvenile Court v. Immigration Court 27:05 - Current policies are disconnected from common sense 29:05 - Reb speaks with attorney Amanda Doroshow from the Acacia Center for Justice 51:20 - Reb speaks with attorney Lauren Esterle with the Acacia Center for Justice 1:18:15 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In 500 BC, corrupt judges were treated a little differently than the ones we have today. The punishments have changed, but one question remains the same: What do we do when judges can't stop taking bribes? Hold onto your birthday suit, Reb is slicing open The Judgment of Cambyses (~530 BC). (Side note: A 30-MINUTE EPISODE CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!) Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 00:00 - Intro 00:50 - The Cursed Envelope Case 02:38 - Judge Sisamnes gets flayed 11:22 - Impartiality is important... 12:37 - ...but Supreme Court Justices play dirty (gasp) 15:58 - Justice Thomas 18:29 - Justice Gorsuch 19:35 - Recusal reform please 21:31 - Justice Alito 22:28 - Don't get it twisted 23:43 - Justice Alito 25:02 - Justice Sotomayor 26:12 - A CODE OF CONDUCT THAT WORKS WOULD BE COOL 29:53 - Reb's Rebuttal  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices