Comedy, case law, chaos. Practicing attorney and TikTok gal @rebmasel breaks down bizarre, chaotic, and intriguing cases and anecdotes from the legal field you'...
(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).
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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
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35: The 13 Wildest Lawsuits Filed In 2003
(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).
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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
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34: Who Owns The Sky?
(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).
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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
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33: The Lawyer Who S#%! In A Pringles Can
(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).
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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
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32: Kidnapping The Kaiser
(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.
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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
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Comedy, case law, chaos. Practicing attorney and TikTok gal @rebmasel breaks down bizarre, chaotic, and intriguing cases and anecdotes from the legal field you've (probably) never heard of. Listen to Reb's hilarious and informative takes on the weird, the awesome, the horrifying, the inspiring, and the everything-in-between happening inside and outside the courtroom.
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