Court Opinion

ID: 9431299
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:31:55.395015+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:52.502191
License: Public Domain

Justice White,
with whom Justice Scalia joins, concurring in part.
I join Parts I and III of the Court’s opinion but not Part II. I continue to believe that “the statute which gives us jurisdiction in this cause, 28 U. S. C. §1257(3), prevents us from deciding federal constitutional claims raised here for the first time on review of state-court decisions. Cardinale v. Louisiana, 394 U. S. 437, 438-439 (1969).” Illinois v. Gates, 462 U. S. 213, 247 (1983) (White, J., concurring in judgment). Thus, I disagree with the Court’s analysis — under “pruden*86tial” standards — of appellant’s preservation of its challenge to the punitive damages award here. Ante, at 79-80. Ultimately, because the majority properly declines to address claims which I believe are not within this Court’s jurisdiction, I concur in Part II’s result, but not its reasoning.