Court Opinion

ID: 9430906
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:30:51.899955+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:26.238105
License: Public Domain

Justice Scalia,
with whom Justice O’Connor joins, concurring.
I join the opinion of the Court. I write separately only to indicate that I do not believe that the so-called Rooker-Feldman doctrine deprives the Court of jurisdiction to decide Texaco’s challenge to the constitutionality of the Texas stay and lien provisions. In resolving that challenge, the Court need not decide any issue either actually litigated in the Texas courts or inextricably intertwined with issues so litigated. Under these circumstances, I see no jurisdictional bar to the Court’s decision in this case.