Califano v. Torres

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a federal cash benefit program for the aged, blind, and disabled did not violate the right to travel by applying only to U.S. citizens living in the fifty states and the District of Columbia, and thus excluding U.S. citizens living in Puerto Rico
• observing that the “right” to international travel “can be regulated within the bounds of due process”
• evaluating whether a federal law that distinguished between residents of a state and residents of Puerto Rico implicated the right to travel
• upholding Congress’ denial of SSI benefits to Puerto Rican residents based on these three factors
• right to travel between Puerto Rico and any one of the 50 states of the United States assumed to be right of interstate travel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).