Court Opinion

ID: 9413275
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-01 22:56:14.762059+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:42:13.447028
License: Public Domain

Justice Kennedy,
concurring.
If one were to ask an attorney or a judge to name the significant cases of his or her career, it would be unsurprising to find the list includes a case then being argued or just decided. When immersed in a case, lawyers and judges find within it a fascination, an intricacy, an importance that transcends what the detached observer sees. So the pending or just completed case will often seem extraordinary to its participants. That is the dynamic of the adversary system, the system that so well serves the law.
It is proper for the Court today to reject the proposition that all enhancements are barred; still, it must be understood that extraordinary cases are presented only in the rarest circumstances.
With these comments, I join in full the opinion of the Court.