Court Opinion

ID: 9428559
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:24:07.947096+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:14.261795
License: Public Domain

*366Justice O’Connor,
concurring.
I join in the per curiam, but write separately to emphasize two points. First, nothing in the Court’s opinion prevents the District Court on remand from dismissing this suit under 28 U. S. C. § 1915(d) if it finds grounds to believe that the complaint is “malicious or frivolous.” This Court only requires the District Court to articulate briefly its reasons for dismissal in order to facilitate appellate review. Second, I find merit in Justice Rehnquist’s comments that this Court is not equipped to correct every perceived error coming from the lower federal courts. The effectiveness of this Court rests in part on its practice of deciding cases of broad significance and of declining to expend limited judicial resources on cases, such as the present one, whose significance is limited to the parties. In exercising our discretionary certiorari jurisdiction, we should not be influenced solely by the merits of the petitioner’s case.