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) 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).
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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
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36: Your House Is A SWAT Team's Rage Room
(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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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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