Mullin v. Al Otro Lado · ¶186

The absence of a current metering policy has plainly infected the Court’s ultimate analysis, too. The majority grounds its reasoning in metaphors about a linebacker and a houseguest and a piece of mail. Ante, at 8–9. (It must do this, of course, because it has no actual facts to grapple with.) No one knows how, if at all, the reasoning drawn from these metaphors will map on to the realities of a future metering policy. All we can do now is guess.

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