9-0, no less.

good news.

Adios, and on the caballo you rode in on, no less.

I'm actually amazed they all agreed. However, if they had allowed the suit to continue, it would have opened up the flood gates for frivolous lawsuits. Even the most liberal of the Justices must have understood that.

There is likely another unstated reason for the 9-0.

Recall, President Obama, VP Biden, Secretary Clinton, and a cabal of others in the fed.gov ran thousands of guns into Mexico under Operation Fast and Furious. Some of those guns were proven to have been involved in the murders of several hundred Mexican nationals, in Mexico, plus one Border Patrol agent here in the US and a Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Mexico.

If SCOTUS ruled in favor of Mexico in this case, then the families of those murdered in Mexico and the Mexican.gov would have a claim against the fed.gov via the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Pleasantly surprised that it was a unanimous decision.

I don’t see how a law suit saying a company isn’t liable for legally selling a legal product in an approved manner, is related to officials knowing supplying criminals with weapons, illegally, when a reasonable person would expect those criminals to use those weapons to commit murder.

Now, there might be a causality argument - that the criminals would have just used machetes/Mexican/Chinese military weapons, but I don’t see how the people are shielded by that law.

Maybe by acting as sovereigns, unless you can show corruption.

Given how rapidly the money laundering and the gun running projects expanded, without senior oversight, it seems like corruption might be possible.

That could make for an interesting law suit against individuals, I think.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
9-0, no less.

good news.

Also delivered by Justice Kagan, no less.
That's a well deserved smack-down.