Court Opinion

ID: 9543418
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:45:26.744479+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:10:19.818492
License: Public Domain

THOMAS, Justice,
concurring:
I agree with the majority of the court that the question certified to us by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit should be answered “yes.” I therefore concur in the result, but I cannot join in the portions of the opinion that speculate about other possible factual situations. In my view, in those instances in which we agree to entertain questions certified to us from the federal courts, it is better jurisprudence to limit the discussion strictly to the question addressed to this court. Dictum in such an instance is really dictum once removed and probably suffers from many of the same disadvantages as multiple hearsay.