Another funny case name

Funny case names has long been an obsession of Supreme Dicta. We have another member of this fabled fraternity:

U.S. v. Eighteenth Century Peruvian Oil on Canvas Painting 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10704

The Washington Post describes the case name as "unusual." No, my friends, that is a profound understatement. "Unusual" describes the few cases where Scalia and Thomas vote on opposite sides (last I checked that was only 15%). Case names like these are as rare and as wacky as when Justice Thomas actually asks a question from the Bench (2007 Term: 0 occurances).

As with most of these cases with bizarre names, the actual case is substantially more boring, as is evidenced by the WaPo story. It's a property dispute case involving stolen artwork. Unless it relates to the Da Vinci code, I'm not really interested.