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) 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).
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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
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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 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
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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
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49:59
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 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).
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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
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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'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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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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