Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. (P.R.)

Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. (P. R.), Ltd., 302 U.S. 253 (1937), is a Supreme Court of the United States case concerning Puerto Rico. The issue was whether a local ("insular") law could be pre-empted by the Commerce clause of the United States Constitution. It was also notable as being one of the first cases that determined that Puerto Rico can be treated as if a state for some purposes under the law.^[1] It has become a precedent for similar cases.^[2]

Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. (P. R.), Ltd.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 9, 1937 Decided December 6, 1937
Full case name	People of Puerto Rico, petitioner, v. Shell Co. (P. R.), Ltd.
Citations	302 U.S. 253 (more) 58 S. Ct. 167; 82 L. Ed. 235
Case history
Prior	86 F.2d 577, reversed
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices James C. McReynolds · Louis Brandeis George Sutherland · Pierce Butler Harlan F. Stone · Owen Roberts Benjamin N. Cardozo · Hugo Black
Case opinion
Majority	Sutherland, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Commerce clause

See also

• Puerto Rico portal
• United States portal
• Politics portal
• Law portal

• Competition law
• Dormant Commerce Clause
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 302
• Bibb v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc.
• Federal preemption
• United States energy law