Cite as: 522 U. S. 222 (1998)
Opinion of the Court
injunction is telling, for injunctions are ordinarily enforced by the enjoining court, not by a surrogate tribunal. Pp. 237-241.
86 F. 3d 811, reversed and remanded.
Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Stevens, Souter, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Scalia, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, post, p. 241. Kennedy, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which O'Connor and Thomas, JJ., joined, post, p. 243.
Laurence H. Tribe argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Jonathan S. Massey, James W. Jeans, Sr., David L. Shapiro, Robert L. Langdon, and J. Kent Emison.
Paul T. Cappuccio argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Kenneth W. Starr, Richard A. Cordray, Jay P. Lefkowitz, Thomas A. Gottschalk, and James A. Durkin.*
Justice Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court. This case concerns the authority of one State's court to order that a witness' testimony shall not be heard in any
*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the State of Missouri et al. by Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General of Missouri, and Karen King Mitchell, Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut, Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General of Iowa, Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General of Massachusetts, Mike Moore, Attorney General of Mississippi, Christine O. Gregoire, Attorney General of Washington, and James E. Doyle, Attorney General of Wisconsin; for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America by Jeffrey Robert White, Cheryl Flax-Davidson, and Howard F. Twiggs; and for the Center for Auto Safety.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the National Association of Manufacturers et al. by Mark B. Helm, Kristin A. Linsley, Jan S. Amundson, Quentin Riegel, and Todd S. Brilliant; and for the Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., by Stephen M. Shapiro, Andrew L. Frey, Kenneth S. Geller, and John J. Sullivan. A brief of amici curiae was filed for the State of Ohio et al. by Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General of Ohio, Jeffrey S. Sutton, State Solicitor, and Elise Porter, Assistant Attorney General, Gale A. Norton, Attorney General of Colorado, Jan Graham, Attorney General of Utah, and Richard Cullen, Attorney General of Virginia.
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