US SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
Camreta v. Greene - 09-1454 (2011)
- Syllabus
- Opinion (Justice Kagan)
- Concurrence (Justice Scalia)
- Concurrence (Justice Scalia)
- Concurrence (Justice Sotomayor)
- Concurrence (Justice Sotomayor)
- Dissent (Justice Kennedy)
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
NOS. 09-1454 AND 09-1478
BOB CAMRETA, PETITIONER
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SARAH GREENE, personally and as next friend of S. G., a minor, and K. G., a minor
JAMES ALFORD, DEPUTY SHERIFF, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, PETITIONER
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SARAH GREENE, personally and as next friend of S. G., a minor, and K. G., a minor
On writs of certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit
[May 26, 2011]
Justice Scalia, concurring:chanrobles.com-red
I join the Court’s opinion, which reasonably applies our precedents, strange though they may be. The alternative solution, as Justice Kennedy suggests, see post, at 13 (dissenting opinion), is to end the extraordinary practice of ruling upon constitutional questions unnecessarily when the defendant possesses qualified immunity. See Saucier v. Katz, 533 U. S. 194 (2001). The parties have not asked us to adopt that approach, but I would be willing to consider it in an appropriate case.
