Sometimes the legal universe gifts us a moment of pure, uncut joy… the kind of cosmic alignment where the docket reads less like a court filing and more like a setup for a joke you’re pretty sure you can’t tell at the office. And today, friends, that moment arrives courtesy of a lawsuit captioned Dicks v. Kuntz.
Yes. Really. Dicks. Versus. Kuntz.
Listen, this is all extremely serious business for the litigants, who were involved in a car crash, and the case will proceed with the requisite judicial solemnity. But let’s be honest: every attorney who has touched this file has had to fight back at least one involuntary snort-laugh.
And, let’s be fair to the families here, because the Dickses and the Kuntzes have almost certainly endured a lifetime of juvenile jokes, deliberate mispronunciations, eyebrow raises, and roll calls from hell. To have the two names collide in a single case caption is an absurd coincidence the universe cooked up with a smirk.
So of course, we wish both parties well in resolving their deeply normal, absolutely un-funny underlying dispute. But the caption? The caption is a masterpiece. A work of art. A rare gift in a world of Smiths and Williams and Joneses.
Long live the docket. Long live the clerk who entered this without bursting into laughter. And may Dicks v. Kuntz take its rightful place among the great case-caption hall-of-famers. It’s reminder that sometimes the law can still surprise us, delight us, and, yes, make us giggle like 12-year-olds.
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1 or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.
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