Court Opinion

ID: 9431261
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:31:50.336843+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:27.710543
License: Public Domain

Justice Scalia,
concurring.
I join the opinion of the Court, which ably demonstrates that according 28 U. S. C. § 518(a) its plain meaning is fully consistent with the opinion of the Court in Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton et Fils S. A., 481 U. S. 787 (1987). I continue to believe, however, that district courts possess no power, inherent or otherwise, to prosecute contemners. for disobedience of court judgments and no derivative power to appoint an attorney to conduct contempt prosecutions. See id., at 825 (Scalia, J., concurring in judgment).