Court Opinion

ID: 8408320
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-02 16:41:58.348755+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:47:33.779834
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KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I continue to adhere to the view I took in our dissent from our court’s orders denying rehearing en banc in Douglas v. California Department of Youth Authority, 285 F.3d 1226 (2002), and Hason v. Medical Board of California, 294 F.3d 1166 (2002). In my opinion, a state cannot knowingly and voluntarily waive a right that Congress has said it does not have. When the state acted under the constraint of the federal statute, the Supreme Court decision1 holding that Congress acted unconstitutionally had not come down. In Hason, the Supreme Court granted certio-rari to review our court’s position and dismissed certiorari only because the State of California decided that it did not wish to contest liability.2 The Court may again decide to consider the matter. As a panel, though, we have no such authority, so I concur in the per curiam opinion.

. Bd. of Trustees of the Univ. of Ala. v. Garrett, 531 U.S. 356, 374, 121 S.Ct. 955, 148 L.Ed.2d 866 (2001).

. Medical Bd. of California v. Hason, 537 U.S. 1028, 123 S.Ct. 561, 154 L.Ed.2d 441 (2002) (granting certiorari, in part), cert. dismissed, - U.S. -, 123 S.Ct. 1779, 155 L.Ed.2d 508 (2003).