Overview

• The Supreme Court withdrew from its agenda a draft on Mexico City’s 2% charge on delivery and ride-hailing platforms and a separate draft redefining who can file environmental amparos after formal hearing requests from stakeholders.
• Chief Justice Hugo Aguilar Ortiz asked for the postponements, and ministers Lenia Batres and Yasmín Esquivel removed their projects, signaling no rulings have been issued and that testimony will precede a new discussion date.
• The taxation case reviews the constitutionality of the CDMX 2% ‘aprovechamiento’; Uber previously won a 2022 amparo, and a new draft assigned to Batres would overturn that relief, according to case summaries reported by Milenio.
• Esquivel’s draft in contradiction 217/2021 would require organizations to show a direct or qualified affectation to pursue environmental amparos, a stance NGOs say conflicts with prior Court criteria, the Escazú Agreement and the principle of non-regression.
• Civil society groups are pressing to preserve broad standing while platform advocates warn of economic impacts and even possible trade frictions, as Congress advances separate reforms to the Amparo Law that would also narrow ‘legitimate interest.’