U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Scalia Delivers Lesson on Word Usage

By Debra Cassens Weiss

Nov 4, 2009, 08:09 am CST

A lawyer for a company that sells tax-free cigarettes over the Internet got a lesson on word usage from Justice Antonin Scalia on Tuesday.

The problems began for lawyer Randolph Barnhouse soon after he described an opportunity to collect tax money as an "inchoate" interest—an interest that is not yet… full story