Quartz by Ephrat Livni 10/26/2019
A US border patrol agent killed a child in Mexico. Can the parents sue him?
Imagine if you were a parent in Mexico whose teenage son was killed while playing on his home turf by an American government agent shooting across the border. Naturally, you’d want justice.
But what you’d discover, as Sergio Hernandez’s parents have, is that you’d have to take your case all the way to the US Supreme Court, twice, just to find out if you can even sue your child’s killer.
Next month, the high court justices will again consider the Hernandez family’s case. They tried to sue the border patrol agent, Jesus Mesa, who shot their boy in 2010. But Mesa has claimed immunity as a government officer at work, arguing that Congress has passed no laws creating agent liability, and that foreigners killed on foreign soil simply cannot sue American officers for damages sustained abroad.
More:
https://qz.com/1736324/scotus-to-hear-case-of-us-agent-shooting-teen-across-mexican-border/
