High Court Declines to Hear Dispute Between Radio Station, Journalist Aristegui Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original June 7, 2015

Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui was fired shortly after exposing a major corruption scandal in Mexico. (Alexandre Meneghini/AP)

Mexico’s Supreme Court has declined to hear a dispute between fired investigative journalist Carmen Aristegui and media conglomerate MVS Comunicaciones and instead sent the case back to a lower tribunal, sources with the country’s highest court told Efe.

On May 28, the Supreme Court instructed a district court for administrative matters not to rule on a complaint filed by the news talk show host against her March 15 dismissal by MVS Radio, thereby allowing it time to determine whether or not it would take up the case.

That lower court had earlier approved Aristegui’s request for an injunction against her dismissal.

As part of that decision, the media group was ordered to hold talks with the journalist and pay Aristegui’s salary from the date in which it terminated her contract until a final decision is handed down in her wrongful dismissal lawsuit or her contract expires.

But when MVS rejected the proposals offered by the assigned mediator, Jose Woldenberg, Aristegui responded by trying to take the case to the Supreme Court.

Sources with the high court, however, told Efe that none of the justices decided to bring the case under its jurisdiction, and therefore it will be sent back to the lower court.

They said if the injunction is upheld the case will proceed, but if it is overturned on appeal the case will end with a legal victory for MVS.

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