Found Math (from the MAA Focus) - Orthogonal

Mr. Friedman: I think that issue is entirely orthogonal to the

issue here because the Commonwealth is acknowledging —

Chief Justice Roberts: I’m sorry. Entirely what?

Mr. Friedman: Orthogonal. Right angle. Unrelated. Irrelevant.

Chief Justice Roberts: Oh.

Justice Scalia: What was that adjective? I liked that.

Mr. Friedman: Orthogonal.

Chief Justice Roberts: Orthogonal.

Mr. Friedman: Right, right.

Justice Scalia: Orthogonal, ooh.

Justice Kennedy: I knew this case presented us a problem.

Mr. Friedman: I should have — I probably should have said

—

Justice Scalia: I think we should use that in the opinion.

Mr. Friedman: I thought — I thought I had seen it before.

Justice Scalia: Or the dissent.

Mr. Friedman: Th at is a bit of professorship creeping in, I

suppose.

— Richard Friedman, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court

in Briscoe v. Virginia

(Th anks to Deanna Haunsperger and Th e Volokh Conspiracy;

see http://volokh.com/2010/01/11/orthogonal-ooh/)