Overview
- The SCJN invalidated provisions in Oaxaca de Juárez’s 2025 Law of Revenues that imposed different consultation charges at the municipal STI clinic for the same service.
- Project 25/2025 by Minister Irving Espinosa concluded that fees must be fixed and equal rather than tied to where a person works.
- Ministra Loretta Ortiz described the scheme as institutional discrimination that stigmatizes sex workers and risks driving them away from public health centers.
- The annulled tariffs charged 63.35 pesos to those working in streets or bars and 96.16 pesos to those in casas de citas and nightclubs.
- The ruling orders the municipality to cease applying the invalidated provisions and signals limits on similar local fee practices; the Court also voided other unclear revenue and infraction rules for violating legal certainty.