In what must be a first, a U.S. District Court judge has used actual dialogue from the movie Caddyshack to buttress his legal argument. As reported by Jay Busbee in With enough shoehorned golf metaphors to make even Rick Reilly gag, a U.S. District Judge in Raleigh, N.C. has sharply criticized whiner par excellence Andrew Giuliani’s claims that he was unfairly booted off Duke’s golf team in 2009.

That’s Giuliani, as in the son of GOP Presidential candidate, former NYC Mayor and cross-dresser Rudy Giuliani. The judge in question, U.S. Magistrate Judge Wallace Dixon, used golf metaphors throughout his summary, but the high point had to be citing Carl Spackler from Caddyshack:

Dixon closed his ruling with a bravura performance: what must be the first-ever reference to Caddyshack’s Carl Spackler in a legal proceeding. Referring to Giuliani’s belief that he is entitled to damages because of an implied contract, Dixon wrote that the claim “brings to mind Carl Spackler’s analysis from the movie ‘Caddyshack’ (Orion Pictures 1980): ‘He’s on his final hole. He’s about 455 yards away, he’s gonna hit about a 2-iron, I think.” In other words, get real, kid.

Perhaps Giuliani the Younger, who felt such a sense of entitlement that he didn’t think he deserved to be dropped from the Duke golf squad, even though he ranked 12th out of the 14 players on the team, can recall some other words from Carl Spackler to provide him some measure of solace: