WASHINGTON — One sign that Jonathan Hacker was in hot water before the U.S. Supreme Court came early yesterday, when Justice Antonin Scalia called his client’s cold medication “zircon,” instead of Zicam.

Zircon is a faux diamond, probably not the best reference when the issue before the Court in Matrixx Initiatives v. Siracusano, No. 09-1156,was securities fraud and Mr. Hacker was representing the alleged fraudster.

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