WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from the family of a Mexican teenager who was killed when a U.S. Border Patrol agent fired across the border from Texas into Mexico.
The justices on Tuesday stepped into a case about the rights of people who are harmed by American authorities on foreign soil to have their day in U.S. courts.
The federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled that the parents of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca, 15, could not sue the agent who killed him in 2010.
The Obama administration, while calling the death tragic, urged the justices to stay out of the case.
- Posted October 14, 2016
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Justices will hear appeal in cross-border shooting
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