The first case on the first day of the new U.S. Supreme Court term—an age discrimination challenge—left a number of justices wondering why they had taken it—not exactly the most auspicious start to a new term.

And to make matters worse, at least for the lawyer representing the job bias claimant, who also happened to be a lawyer, Justice Antonin Scalia scolded the advocate for not raising all of his opposing arguments earlier in his brief in opposition to Supreme Court review.