Goya De Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Rowland Coffee

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the issue of whether joint liability by two principals is admissible under Law 75” has not been settled
• stating that Puerto Rico’s laws cannot be interpreted to have an extraterritorial effect, and thus Law 75 could “only protect Goya as a dealer in Puerto Rico”
• finding assignor of distribution contract rights was no longer principal under Law 75 following the assignment
• “The term detrimental’ which appears in the English version of the statute is a translation for ‘menoscabo’ which is synonymous of the words ‘impairment,’ ‘diminution,’ ‘deterioration,’ or ‘undermining.’”
• “[T]he perfection of the assignment of rights, accompanied by the consequent occupation of the assignor’s contractual position by the assignee implies that he will automatically be liberated of his obligations toward the obligor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).