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Rebuttal

65: 18 Cases That Shouldn't Be Real (They Are)

Rebuttal

Rebmasel

True Crime

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) This is our second Reb's Round-Up episode—A rapid-fire (or as rapid as Reb can make it) laundry list of cases that deserve to be included in the Rebuttal Podcast universe but are too short to devote a full episode to. For this Round-Up, Reb gives you **18 bonus cases** to giggle, scoff, and yell about, including: A 236-page manifesto some local librarians were asked to proofread; A prosecutor who would've killed it at the Salem Witch Trials; Drunk driving a Chevy Cooler-ado; A kidnapping victim pulling an Uno reverse card; Some really gnarly qualified immunity cases (derogatory); And more... Enjoy. *** MERCH STORE IS LIVE! Shop Reb Masel and Rebuttal Pod merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://rebmasel.shop/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CLICK HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Follow @Rebmasel on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! ** 00:00 - Intro 00:37 - Case #1 01:00 - Case #2 01:32 - Case #3 02:16 - Case #4 02:42 - Case #5 04:02 - Case #6 10:58 - Case #7 12:16 - Case #8 13:37 - Case #9 14:09 - Case #10 14:54 - Case #11 **CONTENT WARNING** 15:36 - QUALIFIED IMMUNITY CASES 15:59 - Case #12 16:21 - Case #13 16:44 - Case #14 17:11 - Case #15 17:45 - Case #16 18:13 - Case #17 18:56 - Case #18 19:51 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. This is an episode of Rebs Roundup, an episode where I go down a rapid fire list of cases that deserve to be in the rebuttal podcast universe but don't have enough substance maybe to be their own episode. This is me summarizing an ongoing list of them that I keep that doesn't spare the dirty details if I don't have to, but a few of them for this episode,

0:23.2

I do have to go and give you a little bit more context because it's worth it. But otherwise,

0:26.9

sit back, buckle up and try to keep your jaws off the floor. A Battle Creek, Michigan,

0:32.0

animal control officer allegedly demands that two civilians go corral a dangerous dog while the officer sits comfortably

0:39.6

in the cab of his truck. The dog, predictably, mauls them both. Two out of the three circuit court

0:45.5

judges on this Sixth Circuit panel held that, yeah, that may have been an ungentlemanly act,

0:51.8

but it was not an unconstitutional one. Next case. Ice agent,

0:56.1

escorting passenger from Dallas to Miami, takes upskirt pictures and videos of flight attendant.

1:01.9

He's convicted of interfering with her flight crew duties sentenced to two years probation.

1:06.8

The agent argues that he didn't know she was aware of his, quote, clandestine video voyeurism.

1:13.5

And that was an essential element of this crime and therefore my conviction should be overturned.

1:18.6

His appeal goes up to the 11th Circuit and the 11th Circuit says, ooh, it is not.

1:23.3

Conviction affirmed.

1:24.3

Thank God.

1:25.0

Next case.

1:26.0

Quote, no fraud is more odious than an attempt to subvert the

1:29.5

administration of justice. When an opinion starts that way, you know you're in for a bad time. So it is,

1:35.6

in this First Circuit case involving a Puerto Rico man who tried to get his ex-wife not to testify

1:40.9

against him in a civil case by promising to agree to her proposed custody agreement

1:46.0

as part of their divorce and ongoing custody battle. You can't do that. As we say on this podcast,

1:51.5

in most very tenuous, contentious, heated custody disputes, custody battles. There has to be at

1:58.3

least one party sometimes, too, who hate their former partner

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