Generally the authorized universe presents us a second of pure, uncut pleasure… the form of cosmic alignment the place the docket reads much less like a court docket submitting and extra like a setup for a joke you’re fairly certain you possibly can’t inform on the workplace. And at this time, associates, that second arrives courtesy of a lawsuit captioned Dicks v. Kuntz.
Sure. Actually. Dicks. Versus. Kuntz.
Pay attention, that is all extraordinarily critical enterprise for the litigants, who had been concerned in a automotive crash, and the case will proceed with the requisite judicial solemnity. However let’s be sincere: each lawyer who has touched this file has needed to struggle again no less than one involuntary snort-laugh.
And, let’s be honest to the households right here, as a result of the Dickses and the Kuntzes have nearly actually endured a lifetime of juvenile jokes, deliberate mispronunciations, eyebrow raises, and roll calls from hell. To have the 2 names collide in a single case caption is an absurd coincidence the universe cooked up with a smirk.
So after all, we want each events properly in resolving their deeply regular, completely un-funny underlying dispute. However the caption? The caption is a masterpiece. A murals. A uncommon reward in a world of Smiths and Williams and Joneses.
Lengthy dwell the docket. Lengthy dwell the clerk who entered this with out bursting into laughter. And will Dicks v. Kuntz take its rightful place among the many nice case-caption hall-of-famers. It’s reminder that generally the legislation can nonetheless shock us, delight us, and, sure, make us giggle like 12-year-olds.
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