Supreme Court Asks for SG’s Views on Cross-Border Shooting Case

Amy Howe on SCOTUSBlog reports that the Supreme Court today “called for the views of the U.S. solicitor general in Swartz v. Rodriguez, a petition for review filed by Lonnie Swartz, a U.S. Border Patrol agent alleged to have shot and killed a 16-year-old Mexican boy who was walking on the Mexican side of that country’s border with the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit allowed a lawsuit by the boy’s mother, Araceli Rodriguez, to go forward. Earlier this fall, the justices asked the government to file a brief in another case involving a cross-border shooting

The case raises similar issues as Hernandez v. Mesa (per curiam) (2017), in which the Court remanded the case for further consideration..

KJ