During Supreme Court arguments Wednesday in a case involving claims against high-ranking government officials over post-Sept. 11 detention practices, discussion frequently turned to an unusual hypothetical scenario posed by Justice Stephen Breyer: a lawsuit over a mouse found in a bottle of Coca-Cola. Though Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. at one point called the hypothetical “by its nature particularly absurd,” he and the other justices who adopted it seemed to find it quite instructive.
For complete coverage of Wednesday’s arguments in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, see Tony Mauro’s Legal Times story, “Top Bush Officials Unlikely to Face Personal Liability for 9/11 Detentions.“
