Royal Caribbean Corp. And Caribbean Cruise Line, Ltd. v. Puerto Rico Ports Authority

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• comparing the relative degrees of fiscal autonomy enjoyed by various governmental entities to determine the Ports Authority’s entitlement to Eleventh Amendment immunity
• finding that an initial disbursement of two million dollars to the Puerto Rico Ports Authority in the 1960s did not grant Eleventh Amendment immunity where the Ports Authority had not received substantial Commonwealth financing in the years prior to the suit
• weighing factor that Ports Authority is a \public corporation\ in ruling that it is not an arm of the Commonwealth
• “Plaintiff has no cause of action directly under the United States 12 Constitution. We have previously held that a litigant complaining of a violation of a 13 constitutional right must utilize 42 U.S.C. § 1983.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).