A federal appeals court rejected the arguments of a woman that a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy acted unconstitutionally in her simple battery arrest and raised eyebrows with its opening paragraph.

“You can’t make this stuff up,” wrote Judge Kevin Newsom of the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. “We have hair-pulling, wrist-scratching, face-punching, and rock-throwing—all the makings of a good old-fashioned schoolyard scrap. But alas, the combatants in the fracas underlying this Fourth Amendment case were grownups — sisters, in fact. Sheesh.”