I am 17 and married. My father gave me a laptop for a wedding gift, and my husband a guitar. We moved out to start our own lives. Now he wants the laptop back and to take me to court. Is this right? Can he do that? Or is he looking like a fool?

If it was a gift then you do not have to return it.

Anyone can take someone to court over almost anything. The question is whether they can win. He would have to prove it wasn't a gift to win.

Even a fool, idiot, or child understands, at least in an intuative sense, the concept of a gift.

He must think either that it was not a gift or that a condition of the gift was broken or not fulfilled.

What is your father's expressed reason for wanting it back?

If he gave it to you with conditions, or if he loaned the value to you, then it is not a gift,
So when he gave it to you, was there any requirements ?