Overview
- The Court’s full bench issued a general declaration of unconstitutionality after Jalisco’s Congress failed to change its civil registry law within the allotted time.
- Civil registries must stop adding marriage or divorce annotations to certified birth records, and government offices can no longer require that information for procedures.
- The case began in Jalisco when a person asked to delete marriage and divorce stamps from their birth certificate and was refused, which led to Amparo en Revisión 468/2024.
- The justices found the annotations are not needed to prove identity and risk discrimination, so the ruling protects privacy, data security, equality, and non‑discrimination.
- Coverage varies on scope, with some reports calling the effect nationwide and others limiting it to Jalisco, though the general declaration sets a constitutional benchmark that is expected to guide other states’ registries.