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Cite as:  562 U. S. ____ (2011) 

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SCALIA, J., concurring in judgment 

or  a  janitor,  or  the  protections  against  disclosure  will  be
less  robust.  And  oh  yes,  the  fact  that  a  losing  defendant 
will  be  liable  not  only for  damages  but  also  for  attorney’s
fees  under  §1988  will  greatly  encourage  lawyers  to  sue, 
and defendants—for whom no safe harbor can be found in 
the many  words of  today’s opinion—to settle.  This plain-
tiff’s claim has failed today, but the Court makes a gener-
ous gift to the plaintiff’s bar. 

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Because I deem it the “duty of the judicial department to
say what the law is,” Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 137, 
177 (1803), I concur only in the judgment. 

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