(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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

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(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?!)

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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



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(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 Albright v. Oliver (1994).

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0:00 - Intro

2:26 - Legal mumbo jumbo you should know before we begin

9:00 - Reb's rant on wrongful arrests

13:31 - Why do malicious prosecution cases rarely succeed?

15:22 - Albright v. Oliver (1994)

19:59 - The worst informant draft pick of all time

21:26 - The old man from Up beats the allegations

24:58 - Every son under the bus

29:12 - Shut your mouth (pt. 45457493589295) + Albright's lawsuit

33:09 - The Court of Appeal agrees it was a huge bummer at least

39:05 - SCOTUS opinion

41:10 - Albright v. Oliver and malicious prosecution = a whole mess

43:30 - Reb's Rebuttal

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(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 whip out a few bags of cocaine to snort when the time feels right?

For a group of twelve people in Florida in 1987, they would call it jury duty. That’s right. Since 1987, jury misconduct stories only got crazier and crazier...including one where a jury convicted a man of double homicide by breaking out a Ouija board and asking the victims' ghosts. Yep.

Reb tops off a martini and hosts a seance in Tanner v. United States (1987).

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0:00 - Intro

2:17 - Facts of Tanner v. United States

12:39 - Trial (Coke, Booze, and Court)

23:00 - Rule 606(b) and SCOTUS Majority Opinion

40:53 - SCOTUS Dissenting Opinion

54:11 - Juror misconduct still haunts us

56:19 - SCOTUS heard our complaints and ignored them<3

58:59 - Remedies for juror misconduct

1:01:10 - Case after case after case (Delusional, sleeping, drunk, racist jurors)

1:10:00 - The Ouija Board Jury

1:19:35 - Reb's Rebuttal

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(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 them. More squad cars arrived, and soon Browder and his friend were squinting in the glare of a police spotlight. An officer said they had robbed a man. “I didn’t rob anybody,” Browder replied. “You can check my pockets.” . . .

Reb shares the cases of Kalief Browder and Inmate H, and thousands of other children and adults held in pretrial detention in the United States without ever being convicted of a crime. Some people say cash bail “creates Hell on Earth.” You might just believe them.

**CONTENT WARNING** Violence against children

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/KaliefsLegacy?mibextid=LQQJ4d

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-case-for-cash-bail-reform/

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2:21 - Kalief Browder

14:45 - Rikers Island

17:33 - Pretrial Detention, Cash Bail, and Depravity

22:38 - Inmate H

31:29 - Rikers Island Origins / #CloseRikers

37:18 - Cash Bail Reform

45:45 - A Murderer, A R*pist, and A Traffic Violator

47:38 - Cash Bail Reform

57:40 - Reb's Rebuttal

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(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 learn that write-in ballots never win (except for the rare, *bloody* exception). Reb brings a murder weapon to the voting booth in Tennessee v. Byron (Low Tax) Looper (2000).

TRIGGER WARNING for sexual assault/abuse.

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0:00 - Intro

2:36 - Byron's early life

4:30 - West Point

8:55 - Honorable discharge to politics pipeline

12:38 - Young Democrats of Georgia/Byron has a temper?!

14:00 - Byron and the 1988 GA Democratic primary

20:41 - Byron gets #educated

21:38 - #PuertoRicoGate

32:46 - Byron meets Terri Guess in TN

39:43 - DUMP HIM

43:43 - Byron changes his middle name to (Low Tax).....and it works???

1:03:03 - Senator Tommy Burks

1:08:17 - Byron's been busy

1:09:00 - The last day of his life

1:14:44 - Looper v. Burks

1:19:21 - The arrest

1:21:30 - The ballot's a mess

1:22:02 - Charlotte Burks

1:25:56 - What's the evidence?

1:43:53 - The aftermath

1:45:50 - CONSPIRACY AROUND LOOPER'S DEATH

1:54:03 - Reb's Rebuttal

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