Overview
- The decision leaves in force a civil order requiring payment of 500,000 pesos to journalist Lourdes Mendoza for moral damages.
- The plenary approved Minister Sara Irene Herrerías Guerra’s project to reject the case without entering into the merits.
- The dispute arose from Lozoya’s 2020 statements to the FGR made while he sought a cooperation benefit in the Odebrecht investigation.
- Lower courts in Mexico City had already ruled against Lozoya in 2022 and 2023, and the Supreme Court’s move renders the judgment final and enforceable.
- The ruling does not alter ongoing criminal proceedings involving Lozoya in the Odebrecht and Agronitrogenados cases.