bowlinger qua bowlinger

Yesterday while I was doing research on westlaw for my paper, I needed to find the SCt opinions for those famous affirmative action cases. I didn’t have the citation, so I used the “look up by party name” function. But I called the case “Gutter v. Bowlinger” rather than the name the rest of the legal world knows it by. Of course westlaw told me “no results found…” for the name of our bowling team! I laughed silently to myself about it for, like, 5 minutes and wished one of you were around to share in the hilarity. But no one was, it was just me, so I figured I’d write about it here so you could know how pervasive our name is in my mind.