Overview

• In a 6–3 vote, the Pleno upheld Puebla’s requirement that all vehicles carry third-party liability insurance as constitutional.
• By 8–1, the Court invalidated canceling a driver’s license for up to 10 years for lacking insurance, leaving monetary fines in place.
• The justices affirmed a one-year license suspension for driving under the influence as a proportionate road-safety measure.
• The case arose from the Puebla rights commission’s action of unconstitutionality 1/2024 against the 2023 mobility law known as “Ley Manu.”
• The decision creates a precedent that may guide other states, as a minority warned of affordability burdens for rural and low-income drivers in a system without a national insurance mandate.