Friedman v. Berger

How later courts describe this case

• holding that where a lawyer’s testimony is not indispensable, he should be allowed to testify even though his firm represented one of the parties
• holding that medicaid assistance to the medically needy is a matter of slate option
• describing statutory scheme as ‘aggravated assault on the English language, resistant to attempts to understand it’
• medicaid scheme is “aggravated assault on the English language, resistant to attempts to understand it”
• “courts must exhibit particular deference to the [Secretary of HHS’s] position with respect to legislation as intricate as Title XIX”
• patent for weight-lifting apparatus; pertinent art was design of body-training devices, not weight-training or mechanical engineering
• witness was attorney in private law firm