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Mexico’s Supreme Court Sets First Public Hearing on Disability Consultation Rule

The justices paused a Michoacán case to hear affected voices before deciding whether to replace automatic nullification for lack of prior consultation with case-by-case review.

Organizaciones de defensa de personas con discapacidad protestaron la mañana de este lunes afuera de la sede del máximo tribunal del país contra el nuevo criterio para negar consultas a personas con discapacidad que iba a presentar la ministra Lenia Batres.
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Overview

  • The SCJN will hold its first public hearing on October 20 at 12:00 under General Agreement 5/2025 to receive testimony from persons with disabilities and civil society.
  • Minister President Hugo Aguilar Ortiz announced the unanimous Pleno decision after demonstrators delivered an open letter outside the Court.
  • The hearing relates to action of unconstitutionality 182/2024 against a Michoacán law, and Minister Lenia Batres withdrew her draft from immediate vote to allow the session.
  • Batres’s project proposes ending automatic invalidation for lack of prior consultation, arguing for substantive rights analysis, whereas earlier jurisprudence struck down more than 50 laws on procedural grounds.
  • Disability organizations and Human Rights Watch warn that changing the standard would weaken protections and shift litigation burdens onto people who often lack standing or face structural barriers.