Court Opinion

ID: 9433301
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:39:45.777565+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:38.484415
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Justice Scalia,
with whom Justice Kennedy joins, concurring.
I join the opinion of the Court. I write separately to make clear that it is not my view, and I do not understand the Court to hold, that no procedural provision can be jurisdictional. It assuredly is within the power of Congress to condition its waiver of sovereign immunity upon strict compliance with procedural provisions attached to the waiver, with the result that failure to comply will deprive a court of *673jurisdiction. For the reasons stated by the Court, I do not think that the legislative scheme here makes the “forthwith” service requirement such a condition.