United States v. Manuel Quinones

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• authority in Puerto Rico flows from a compact, entered into in 1952 between Congress and Puerto Rico, which Congress cannot unilaterally amend
• “The Omnibus Crime Control Act is the controlling law for federal prosecutions in Puerto Rico.”
• \Puerto Rico ceased being a territory of the United States subject to the plenary powers of Congress as provided in the Federal Constitution. . . . [T]he government of Puerto Rico is no longer a federal government agency exercising delegated power.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).