Miguel A. Moreno Rios v. United States

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• holding that the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act—which ap plied to “the several States and Territories, and the District of Columbia”—applied to Puerto Rico and continued to do so after 1952
• observing that canon \as an aid ... is pretty weak when applied to acts of Congress enacted at widely separated times\
• observing that canon “as an aid . . . is pretty weak when applied to acts of Congress enacted at widely separated times”
• rejecting argument that post-Commonwealth amendment to the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act affected application of the statute to Puerto Rico

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).