I think I just came across my favorite Supreme Court case name: United States v. 12 200-Ft. Reels of Super 8mm. Film. The idea of the federal government fighting inanimate objects is just funny. If anybody can explain to me why this case was named this way (and not United States v. Paladini), fill me in.
A close second (and referenced in this case): United States v. Thirty-Seven Photographs.
Cited in a dissenting opinion of United States v. 12 200-Ft. Reels Of Film is Benjamin Franklin’s Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress, where he justifies his assertion that old women are superior to young ones (emphasis mine):
Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.
Holy crap. Benjamin Franklin might be the first to ever call someone a one bagger—or a “one basketer,” at least.
