Bloomberg Law
Feb. 21, 2017, 7:44 PM UTC

Mexican Border-Shooting Suit May Divide U.S. Supreme Court

Greg Stohr

U.S. Supreme Court justices indicated they are divided in a case over a shooting across the Mexican border, hinting they may split 4-4 and leave high court nominee Neil Gorsuch to cast the deciding vote.

Hearing arguments in Washington, the justices weighed an appeal from the parents of Sergio Hernandez, a Mexican teenager who was shot to death by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in 2010. The family is seeking to sue the agent in federal court, arguing that U.S. constitutional protections apply to Hernandez even though he wasn’t in this country when he was shot.

Justice Anthony Kennedy joined ...

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