Overview

• Grupo Salinas said it is evaluating defamation and moral-damages claims in Mexico and the United States after Sheinbaum’s Sept. 24 remarks.
• Ricardo Salinas Pliego has asserted he will file a case in U.S. courts targeting the Mexican president.
• Legal scholars cite the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 and protections recognized under the Vienna Convention to argue U.S. courts lack jurisdiction over a sitting Mexican head of state.
• Analysts point to past U.S. cases involving José López Portillo and Ernesto Zedillo in which courts declined to hear claims against Mexican presidents.
• Experts add that U.S. courts typically expect exhaustion of domestic remedies and note comparisons to the Nicolás Maduro cases are inapplicable, as Grupo Salinas also floats a proposal for a dialogue.