Mexico’s Federal Judiciary Reports 88% of Cases Resolved in One Year
In the first year of Mexico’s elected judiciary, Supreme Court president Hugo Aguilar Ortiz reported 13,231 of 15,051 case files resolved and over 4.7 billion pesos in savings.
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Sheinbaum Criticized the Court for Restoring Privileges Such as Medical Expenses Insurance
President Sheinbaum rebuked six Supreme Court justices for voting to restore taxpayer-funded major medical insurance for judicial staff, invoking Benito Juárez and republican austerity: “No to privileges.”
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Mexico’s Supreme Court Will Incorporate Legal Knowledge of Indigenous & Afro-Mexican Peoples
“[Justice] must get closer to reality, and to get closer to reality we need method, we need knowledge, we need systematization, we need the people who demand justice, who cry out for justice, who mobilize out there.”
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Supreme Court’s Aguilar: Reversing Judicial Reform is “just wishful thinking”
Mexico’s Chief Justice of the Supreme Court indicated that the people of Mexico are unlikely to want to return to a “justice system behind closed doors.”
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Supreme Court Tax Rulings Concern Samsung & Maquiladoras
The companies, who profit heavily from the exploitation of Mexican labour, seek to maintain significant fiscal advantages at the expense of the Mexican treasury after years of evading export taxes.
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Mexico’s Elected Supreme Court Must Resolve 69 Tax Disputes Within Two Months
One pending matter is the last tax case involving ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s Grupo Salinas, involving 621.9 million pesos.
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Supreme Court Re-Opens Coca Cola Tax Debt
For decades, a neoliberal-captured Supreme Court allowed corporations to evade and defer massive tax debts to the Mexican state. Recent rulings suggest that era may be over.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Grupo Salinas; Must Pay $67 Million Fine
The ruling comes a week after the Court definitively ratified seven other tax debts totaling more than 48 billion against ultra-right winger Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s conglomerate.
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Mexico’s Supreme Court Orders Canadian Mining Corp to Pay $2.8 Billion Tax Bill
Primero Empresa Minera, a subsidiary of the Canadian company First Majestic Silver Corp, have previously been fined by the Court for using a procedural trick to prolong the case.
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Mexican Supreme Court Justice Lenia Batres Demands Release of Mexicans in Global Sumud Flotilla
“Humanitarian aid is not a crime, which is why I join the urgent demand for the immediate and unconditional release of all activists,” the Justice posted.
