# Puerto Rico v. Branstad

> Supreme Court of the United States · June 23, 1987 · 483 U.S. 219

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9431082

## Case

- **Full name:** PUERTO RICO v. BRANSTAD, GOVERNOR OF IOWA, Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** June 23, 1987
- **Citations:** 483 U.S. 219; 55 U.S.L.W. 4975; 107 S. Ct. 2802; 97 L. Ed. 2d 187; 1987 U.S. LEXIS 2873
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by O'Connor
- **Judges:** Marshall, Rehnquist, Brennan, White, Blackmun, Stevens, Ii-A, Ii-C, Powell, O'Connor, Scalia
- **Cited by:** 109 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that, “[b]eeause the duty is directly imposed upon the States by the Constitution itself, there can be no need to weigh the performance of the federal obligation against the powers reserved to the States under the Tenth Amendment”
- holding that, "[b]ecause the duty is directly imposed upon the States by the Constitution itself, there can be no need to weigh the performance of the federal obligation against the powers reserved to the States under the Tenth Amendment"
- rejecting the premise that states and the federal government should always be viewed as coequal sovereigns and explaining that “[i]t has long been a settled principle that federal courts may enjoin unconstitutional action by state officials.”

## Opinion text

Justice O’Connor,
with whom
Justice Powell joins, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
I join Parts I, II-A, II-C, and III of the Court’s opinion. Because the Court ultimately resolves this case under the *231 Extradition Act, 18 U. S. C. § 3182 , I do not find Part II-B, and its statements concerning the Extradition Clause of the Constitution, necessary to the decision of this case. Accordingly, I do not subscribe to that part of the Court’s opinion. See, e. g., Jean v. Nelson, 472 U. S. 846, 854 (1985); Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U. S. 352, 361, n. 10 (1983); Ashwander v. TVA, 297 U. S. 288, 347 (1936) (Brandeis, J., concurring).

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