Cordova & Simonpietri Insurance Agency Inc. v. Chase Manhattan Bank N.A.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that after “the change in Puerto Rico’s status from ‘territory’ to ‘Commonwealth,’ section 3 no longer applies to Puerto Rico,”
• determining that the circumstances of Puerto Rico’s commonwealth status indicated that the term “territory” in the Sherman Act did not include Puerto Rico
• holding that \there would have to be specific evidence or clear policy reasons embedded in [a] statute to demonstrate\ that Congress meant it to regulate more local conduct in \post-Constitutional Puerto Rico\ than it does in the states
• describing various adjustments to Puerto Rican autonomy through congressional legislation since 1898
• describing various adjustments to Puerto Rican autonomy through congressional legislation since 1898
• resting its holding in part on the absence of any “reason of policy discernible in the Sherman Act for treating Puerto Rico differently, given a general Congressional intent to grant Puerto Rico state-like autonomy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).