40: The Talking Cat Case

Rebuttal

Rebmasel

True Crime

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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(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 and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! Huge shoutout to Alyssa, our new Rebuttal Podcast editor! *** 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 *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.2	Hello everyone and welcome back to the Rebuttal podcast where we break down case law, calamity
1:05.3	and of course chaos and the legal field. I am Reb Maisel. I am once again your host. And today we have laughs. God bless.
1:16.1	We have laughs. We have giggles. We have the strange. We have the crazy. And obviously, the brand here
1:23.7	at Rebuttal is I try very hard, but honestly not that hard at all, to bring you the cases
1:32.5	in the legal field that don't get seven-part docu-series on Netflix, right? Like the Ted Bundy's do.
1:41.0	Okay? Like the John Bonnet Ramsey cases do. Not because those cases don't totally deserve
1:46.4	lip service, but after the 85th time that I could probably hear those things spoken about
1:52.4	in a million different ways on every podcast, et cetera. There are so many other cases in the law
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