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- The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether a U.S. Border Patrol agent can be sued for shooting and killing a Mexican teenager who was playing with friends in the concrete culvert that separates El Paso, Texas, from Juarez, Mexico.
The shooting of an unarmed 15-year-old named Sergio Hernandez provoked outrage in Mexico in 2010 and set off a prolonged legal dispute over the reach of the U.S. Constitution.
http://www.arcamax.com/politics/politicalnews/s-1882479
Separately, the court said it would hear the government's bid to halt a long-running lawsuit against former U.S. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft and other top officials from the George W. Bush administration over the detentions of several Muslim men after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Justice Department says these officials are immune from such claims, but a divided U.S. appeals court in New York said the suit may proceed.
There is some doubt as to whether the boy was unarmed or not: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-condemns-deadly-border-patrol-shooting/