Americana of Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Samuel R. Kaplus and J. Kaplus & Sons, Inc.

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• concluding that with United States citizenship comes the attendant protections of the Due Process Clause
• holding that Puerto Rican judgments are entitled to full faith and credit
• explaining that \Territories\ \does not have a fixed and technical meaning that must be accorded to it in all circumstances\ and that it may or may not refer to Puerto Rico depending on the context
• federal statute that referred to the proceedings of any “State, Territory, or Possession,” applied to Puerto Rico even though Puerto Rico was not a State, Territory, or Possession
• federal statute that referred to the proceedings of any “State, Territory, or Possession,” applied to Puerto Rico even though Puerto Rico was not a State, Territory, or Possession

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).