Court Opinion

ID: 9842151
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-22 20:13:14.702025+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:11:21.051789
License: Public Domain

Justice Kennedy,
with whom Justice Ginsburg and Justice Breyer join, concurring.
I join the opinion of the Court. In my view, the opinion’s discussion of Florida Dept. of State v. Treasure Salvors, Inc., 458 U. S. 670 (1982), does not embed in our law the distinction between a State’s possession or nonpossession for purposes of Eleventh Amendment analysis in admiralty cases. In light of the subsisting doubts surrounding that case and Justice Stevens’ concurring opinion today, it ought to be evident that the issue is open to reconsideration.