Court Opinion

ID: 6932964
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 00:14:25.191361+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:07:17.713046
License: Public Domain

WALLACE, Chief Judge,
concurring:
I concur with parts I and II of this opinion. However, I concur only in the result of part III, because the discussion of the legislative history of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (Act) is unnecessary. Having concluded that the plain language of the Act controls this case, our opinion should end. The discussion of the Act’s legislative history gives the impression that the Act is not as clear as we say, and that some additional reason is required before we hold as we do. “Where we are not prepared to be governed by what the legislative history says — to take, as it were, the bad with the good — we should not look to the legislative history at all. This text is eminently clear, and we should leave it at that.” United States v. Taylor, 487 U.S. 326, 345, 108 S.Ct. 2413, 2424, 101 L.Ed.2d 297 (1988) (Scalia, J., concurring).