Rebuttal
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.***NOT LEGAL ADVICE***https://www.youtube.com/@RebuttalPod
Episodes
49: Egos That KillāHell on the Set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie"
(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 ā¦
48: The $54 Million Pants
(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 HEREā ā ā ā to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throā¦
47: The Bigfoot Cases
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) āHis statement was that [the other man] had summoned āBigfootā to come and kill him. Thatās why he had to kill [him first]. . . " Sasquatch is (somehow) always in court. Let's go hunting. These are the Bigfoā¦
46: A Raccoon Is A Deadly Weapon
(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, anā¦
45: The Scariest Law Enforcement Agency You've Never Heard Of
(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 postalā¦
44: Hatred Has No Legal Remedy
(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." āJudge Joseph W. Quinn Divorce is messy. Bruni v. Bruni (2010ā¦
43: The Parrot Who Saw Too Much
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In 1870, a dog named Old Drum is shot and killed by his ownerās 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 āDonāt shooā¦
42: The Venezuela Deportations (Trump's Worst Kept "Secrets")
(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 tā¦
41: The Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping
(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).***CLICKā¦
40: The Talking Cat Case
(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 anā¦
39: The No Fly List Is A Nightmare
(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 randā¦
38: How To Steal A Plane Without Breaking The Law
(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 pā¦
37: Martial Law in Hawaii
(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'ā¦
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 tā¦
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). ***0:00 - Intro / Life update4:16 -ā¦
34: Who Owns The Sky?
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBEļ»æ) 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 @Reā¦
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 botā¦
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 ā¦
31: The Children: Alone In America
(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 ā¦
30: Skin The Judge Alive?!
(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?Holā¦
29: The Baking Soda Snitch
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) A paid informant who should've been fired, a police officer who LOVES a good eraser, and a dad who can't stop bragging about his poor sons.Grab a bag of baking soda and a large Coke and hear Reb snitch on Albā¦
28: The Jury Is On Drugs, Your Honor
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) What do you call a 6-week period in which you and a handful of very recent acquaintances get drunk every day at lunch, sleep through the afternoons, sell weed to each other, smoke weed with each other, and whā¦
27: The Lost Boys of Rikers Island
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In the early hours of Saturday, May 15, 2010, Kalief Browder and a friend were returning home from a party in the Belmont section of the Bronx. He was 16 years old. Browder saw a police car driving toward theā¦
26: The Assassin
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Do political assassinations even happen in the U.S. anymore? Apparently yes. Yes, they do. Get ready to change your middle name, sue Puerto Rico for speaking Spanish, move to a hog farm in Tennessee, and leaā¦
25: The Rap Lyrics On Trial
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Beef between rappers keeps music alive and well. But what happens when a video of you lip syncing to rap lyrics at a party helps put you away for murder? Hear all about it with Reb at the Texas Court of Criā¦
24: Stand Your Ground
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Since Biblical times, self defense has been simple.Ā Guard your castle. Retreat to the wall. Defend yourself.Ā The U.S. stole its common law from the English, and the elements of self defense didn't change. Untā¦
23: The Booby Traps
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Humans have been digging moats, slingshotting arrows, poisoning food, and laying spikes for thousands of years ā and modern day booby traps are still alive and well. But what do an Indiana Jones-inspired hotā¦
22: The Boxers, A Bomb, and Dolly Mapp
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) There are 3 reasons one of the most important 4th Amendment rules in America exists as it does today: (1) Boxers in the criminal underworld, (2) A bomb in the house of famous boxing promoter Don King, and (3)ā¦
21: The Witness Protection Program
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) We protect the witnesses from the public, but who protects the public from the witnesses? Peek behind the curtain of the Witness Protection Program and prepare to be shocked, afraid, and bamboozled. Take coveā¦
20: The Man Who Begged To Be Beheaded
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Most people would like to keep their heads. Thomas Donaldson isn't one of them. This mathematician and computer scientist wanted his cut off, and he wanted it to be done while he was still alive. Bring a waā¦
19: Housewives For Chemical War
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Breathing through chemical smoke has been described as ādrowning on dry land.ā When one imagines chemical warfare, they often imagine a striking image of filthy soldiers choking in trenches on the frontlinesā¦
17: The Cadaver Meet And Greet
Plug your nose and cross your heart - a rotting corpse is on the stand. 1,126 years ago, Rome was going through Popes like napkins at a BBQ cook-off. Most of them were killed, tortured, maimed, spit on...by each other. Eventually, Desperateā¦
18: The Airman Is Alive
Pararescue is the most highly decorated Air Force-enlisted force, executing the most perilous, demanding, and extreme rescue missions at anytime, anywhere around the globe. Their motto is: "These Things We Do, That Others May Live." Pararā¦
16: The (Rhymes With Corn-O) Trolling Law Firm
Illinois attorneys John Steele and Paul Hansmeier had an X-rated dream: to represent the ālittle guysā. The wrongfully accused? The juvenile delinquents? The small businesses? Porn production companies, of course.Ā What started out as a seemā¦
15: The U-Haul Family Dynasty
Pro Tip: When you become a billionaire overnight, use protection (or get coup insurance). The true story of the U-Haul family feud that lasted 40 years (and counting). Listen to Reb dodge brotherly punches in Shoen v. Shoen (1993).***WATCH ā¦
14: The Penalty Is Death
A prison break, the oldest biker gang in the world, 558 death sentences, a body in a river, and the man who tried to dodge death just to run straight into it. Twice. The Supreme Court in 1976 had no idea it would set off a chain of events wā¦
13: The Dirty Liars
Since 1969, the police have been legally allowed to lie to you. Yes, you. About anything. Anywhere and everywhere. And they do. All the time. One of their favorite tricks is to use the āfalse evidence ployā to convince you to take a lesser ā¦
12: The Smile And Wave, Boys (How To Get Away With Burglary)
Never underestimate the power of a smile and a slow walk during a good old-fashioned B&E. Learn your way around the thin, thin lines between burglary, larceny, robbery, and Goldie Locks catching a felony charge. Reb unpacks why a burglary dā¦
12: The Smile And Wave, Boys (How To Get Away With Burglary)
Never underestimate the power of a smile and a slow walk during a good old-fashioned B&E. Learn your way around the thin, thin lines between burglary, larceny, robbery, and Goldie Locks catching a felony charge. Reb unpacks why a burglary dā¦
11: The Kidnapper Who Sued His Hostages
A fugitive wanted for murder stares at two newlyweds through a window on their back porch in Dover, Kansas on a Saturday morning in 2009. He makes them an offer: $10,000 to hide him, please. Cheetos, Dr. Pepper, and a Robin Williams movie sā¦