Overview

• The Segunda Turma Recursal dos Juizados Especiais do Distrito Federal upheld the lower-court rejection of Jair Bolsonaro’s claim, making the order final on October 1.
• Bolsonaro must pay court costs and attorneys’ fees set at 10% of the case’s value within 15 days.
• Failure to pay triggers a 10% fine and additional attorneys’ fees, with possible electronic seizure via the Sisbajud system.
• Bolsonaro had sued after Guilherme Boulos publicly linked him to the 2018 murders of Marielle Franco and Anderson Gomes, seeking damages and a retraction.
• The first-instance decision by Judge Júlio César Lérias Ribeiro cited prescription and speech connected to Boulos’s mandate, and the panel rejected Bolsonaro’s challenge to parliamentary immunity.