Overview

• The plenary voted 7–1 to validate Article 46 of Mérida’s Law of Hacienda, adopting Minister Yasmín Esquivel Mossa’s project and rejecting the city’s challenge.
• Minister María Estela Ríos González dissented, arguing municipal authorities should set proposals because they best understand local needs and territory.
• The decision rejects an immediate, uniform increase and favors a gradual policy to avoid disproportionate predial burdens on residents.
• Ministers cited risks from real-estate speculation, highlighting gentrification pressures and potential impacts on Maya communities in the peninsula.
• In the same session, the Court struck down Guerrero penal provisions on counterfeit medicines as a federal matter, invalidated a Tabasco limit on paying court-ordered compensation, and ordered the FGR to disclose some personnel data while upholding privacy in another case.