The case caption promises a mix of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: The plaintiff styles himself "The Excellent Raj K. Patel, the Excellent from All Capacities" and the defendants are Patel and Kumar. But Wednesday's opinion in Patel v. Patel by Judge Laura Taylor Swain (S.D.N.Y.) reads like life in a household with two boys, with 15 extra years of age but not of development (to be fair, all we know about the defendant brother's actions are what the plaintiff brother alleges):
Plaintiff … filed this complaint against his brother … and his brother's wife, … and sets forth the following factual allegations.
Since watching Gangubai Kathiawadi, a 2022 Bollywood movie, Neal [defendant] has called Raj [plaintiff] "gangu" and "ganglia" a name of a child prostitute who become the madame of the facility, starting from existing the movie theater.
Raj left Neal at the restaurant they were eating at after the movie because Neal could not stop calling him the name. Raj and Neal's parents picked Neal up.
On May 17, Neal called me that, and I told him not to call me that again in writing.
On Thursday, June 8th when Neal arrived from New York to Indianapolis, as soon as he entered into my motel room he said "sup, gangu" or "sup, ganglia."
Patel has been suffering from stress, markedly since December 2017.
I demanded an apology from Neal which he has failed to give….
I had initially sent Neal a demand with a draft complaint to stop calling me this on June 12.
Neal visited Indianapolis after June 12th …, and he walked into my room earnestly and said, "what's up, ganga."
