Court Opinion

ID: 9432493
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:35:31.905505+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:34.159328
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Justice O’Connor,
with whom Justice White and Justice Blackmun join, concurring in the judgment.
I agree that when Congress enacted 28 U. S. C. § 158(d) as part of the Bankruptcy Amendments and Federal Judgeship Act of 1984, Congress probably did not intend to deprive the courts of appeals of their longstanding jurisdiction over interlocutory appeals in bankruptcy cases. But I think we should admit that this construction of the statutes does render § 158(d) largely superfluous, and that we do strive to interpret statutes so as to avoid redundancy. Cf. ante, at 253-254. In this case, I think it far more likely that Congress inadvertently created a redundancy than that Congress intended to withdraw appellate jurisdiction over interlocutory bankruptcy appeals by the roundabout method of reconfer-ring jurisdiction over appeals from final bankruptcy orders. I would reverse the judgment below only for this reason.