Category: Constitution
Cross-Border Shooting Case Decided Today
Today the U.S. Supreme Court held in Hernandez v. Mesa that the parents (citizens of Mexico) of a teenager (also a citizen of Mexico) who was shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol Agent on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border are prohibited from suing the agent for damages under the U.S. Constitution.
CJLF originally joined the case in 2017 to encourage a decision denying the lawsuit. We argued that in a case involving relations between the U.S. and a foreign country, the judicial branch should not step in but should leave the matter to Congress. CJLF’s amicus curiae brief in that case (Hernandez I) is available here.
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