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Rebuttal

34: Who Owns The Sky?

Rebuttal

Rebmasel

True Crime

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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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). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.1

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0:33.0

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0:44.2

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0:46.0

Into it, QuickBooks.

0:48.5

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the rebuttal podcast where we break down case law, calamity, and of course, chaos

0:54.6

in the legal field.

0:55.8

I am once again your host, Reb Maisel.

0:58.5

And this is our first episode of November, but I'm filming back to back today, which I'm

1:03.7

jazzed about.

1:04.3

And I am honestly just excited to get back into it.

1:10.3

Okay.

1:13.9

Okay, gorgeous, perfect. I don't really have too much of an intro for you. Maybe it's because I feel very brain dead today. I don't know what it is. I'm

1:20.0

exhausted. When am I not exhausted? But let's get into it. Let's get into something. Please,

1:26.6

please, Lord. Here we go. I am going to start this case off with a question for you. Who owns the sky? Who owns it? What is your best guess? When you own a piece of property, when you buy a piece of land, does that ownership extend all the

1:46.1

way to the moon? Does it include the clouds? Is it past the moon? Is it a football field above your

1:54.6

house? Shorter, farther? The principle of ad column states that, quote, whose is the soil, his it is up to the sky.

2:04.1

He who owns the soil or surface of the ground owns to an infinite height.

2:09.2

Since the earliest embryological state of property ownership, our common law has adhered to that

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