PEOPLE OF PORTO RICO ET AL., APPELLANTS,
v.
CARLOS TAPIA

U.S. | 1918-01-21
No. 534
245 U.S. 639 Supreme Court of the United States (1918) Positive Treatment
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Per_curiam
Per Curiam.

Per Curiam.

Judgment reversed upon the authority of Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U. S. 244; Hawaii v. Mankichi, 190 U. S. 197; Dorr v. United States, 195 U. S. 138; Rassmussen v. United States, 197 U. S. 516; Kopel v. Bingham, 211 U. S. 468; Dowdell v. United States, 221 U. S. 91; Porto Rico v. Rosaly, 227 U. S. 270, 274; Ocampo v. United States, 234 U. S. 91, 98.

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  • Balzac v. People of Porto RICO, 258 U.S. 298 (U.S. 1922)
    …he purpose of Congress to incorporate Porto Rico into the United States with the consenuences which would follow. This court has passed on substantially the same questions presented here in two cases, Porto Rico v. Tapia, and Porto Rico v. Muratti, 245 U. S. 639. In the former, the question was whether one who was charged with committing a felonious homicide some twelve days after the passage of the Organic Act in 1917, could be brought to trial without an indictment of a grand jury as required by the Fifth…
  • Fermin Fonseca Flores v. Prann, 282 F.2d 153 (1st Cir. 1960)
    …v. Bidwell, 1901, 182 U.S. 1, 21 S.Ct. 743, 45 L.Ed. 1041, and Downes v. Bidwell, 1901, 182 U.S. 244, 21 S.Ct. 770, 45 L.Ed. 1088, and subsequent cases confirming and applying their doctrine, see cases cited in People of Puerto Rico v. Tapia, 1918, 245 U.S. 639, 38 S.Ct. 192, 62 L.Ed. 525. . Law 600, 64 Stat. 319; 48 U.S.C.A. § 731 et seq.…
  • Lastra v. N.Y. & Porto RICO S. S. Co., 2 F.2d 812 (1st Cir. 1924)
    …Ct. 770, 45 L. Ed. 1088. Also that the admiralty provision of our Constitution does not extend to Porto Rieo unless Congress has put it there by legislation. Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U. S. 244, 282, 21 S. Ct. 770, 45 L. Ed. 1088; Porto Rico v. Tapia, 245 U. S. 639, 38 S. Ct. 192, 62 L. Ed. 525, and cases cited. We find no such legislation, but the reverse. The Porto Rican Legislature has, under the Organic (Jones) Act, 39 Stat. 951 (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. 1919, §§ 3803a-3803z), general local legislative p…

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