Tony Mauro at LegalTimes reports that University of Michigan law school professor Richard Friedman, arguing for the plaintiffs in the Confrontation Clause, crime lab evidence case Briscoe v Virginia, piqued the interest of the lexophiles on the Court when he described a Justice Kennedy hypothetical as a valid issue for future cases but “entirely orthogonal to the issue at hand.”
Roberts: “I’m sorry. Entirely what?... What was that adjective? I liked that?
Scalia: “I think we should use that in the opinion…or the dissent.”
Of course, we in Michigan all know that orthogonal means “at right angles,” having walked across the orthogon on campus many times.
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