February 25, 2020
Attorney Cristobal Galindo spoke at the U.S. Supreme Court in December 2019 with the parents of Sergio Hernandez, a Mexican 15-year-old who was on the Mexican side of the border when he was shot and killed in 2010 by a Border Patrol agent standing in the U.S. The family is fighting for the right to sue the agent after a Border Patrol investigation claimed the shooting was justified; their hopes were dashed this week when the Supreme Court decided, by a 5-4 vote, that shootings across borders are international disputes, and cannot be the source of Amercian civil court lawsuits. (Photo by Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola/Cronkite News)
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A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling likely slams the door on the ability of the family of a teen killed by a Border Patrol agent in Nogales to sue him and, by extension, the federal government.
