Baker v. General Motors Corp.

*243Justice Kennedy, with whom Justice O’Connor and Justice Thomas join,

concurring in the judgment.

I concur in the judgment. In my view the case is controlled by well-settled foil faith and credit principles which render the majority’s extended analysis unnecessary and, with all due respect, problematic in some degree. This separate opinion explains my approach.

The majority, of course, is correct to hold that when a judgment is presented to the courts of a second State it may not he denied enforcement based upon some disagreement with the laws of the State of rendition. Full faith and credit…