You won't find the case of the trapezoidal windows on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court — not yet. But it is all about the Supreme Court, and shows how, even at that exalted locale, a construction project can go terribly awry, triggering litigation that never seems to end.

Appeals stemming from a six-year-old dispute over replacement of the court's windows landed this summer with both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and conceivably could make their way to the scene of the crime, so to speak: the Supreme Court itself.