Vega-Castro v. Commonweatlh of Puer

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that Congress could have legislated differently for the Commonwealth
• explaining that was reasonable to assume Cordova's \default rule . . . inform[ed] Congress's intent\
• listing “two possible avenues to differential treatment: an express direction in the statutory text or some other compelling reason”
• explaining difference between question of \constitutional capacity\ — \Congress's power under the Territorial Clause\ — and one of \statutory construction\
• considering whether the Fair Labor Standards Act abrogates Puerto Rico's sovereign immunity even though Congress could not validly use Article I power to abrogate states' immunity
• acknowledging Congress' constitutional authority to legislate for Puerto Rico differently than for the states but nonetheless applying Cordova to the question whether Congress intended a particular statute to treat Puerto Rico as a state or a territory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).