NewsWhore
07-29-2011, 04:30 PM
A group of lawyers filed a motion for a declaration of unconstitutionality before the Supreme Court against the law 145-11, which sets the retirement age of judges of the Constitutional Court at 75 years.
The request was submitted earlier this month by attorneys Frank Reynaldo Fermin, Carlos Balcacer and Cesar Alejandro Guzman Lizardo.
It is the third appeal of unconstitutionality filed against the paragraph 5 of Article 13 of the Fundamental Law of the Constitutional Court and the constitutional process.
Article 39 states: All persons are born free and equal before the law and shall receive the same protection and treatment from institutions, authorities and other persons, and shall enjoy the same rights, freedoms and opportunities, without discrimination due to gender, skin color, age, disability, national origin, family ties, language, religion, political or philosophical opinions, or social or personal conditions.
The lawyers argue that the issue of age limitation established by law violates the Constitution, which says the State shall take steps to prevent and combat discrimination.
The National Judicial Council (Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura) has yet to be convened to select the 13 justices of the new Constitutional Court that was created in the 2010 Constitution.
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The request was submitted earlier this month by attorneys Frank Reynaldo Fermin, Carlos Balcacer and Cesar Alejandro Guzman Lizardo.
It is the third appeal of unconstitutionality filed against the paragraph 5 of Article 13 of the Fundamental Law of the Constitutional Court and the constitutional process.
Article 39 states: All persons are born free and equal before the law and shall receive the same protection and treatment from institutions, authorities and other persons, and shall enjoy the same rights, freedoms and opportunities, without discrimination due to gender, skin color, age, disability, national origin, family ties, language, religion, political or philosophical opinions, or social or personal conditions.
The lawyers argue that the issue of age limitation established by law violates the Constitution, which says the State shall take steps to prevent and combat discrimination.
The National Judicial Council (Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura) has yet to be convened to select the 13 justices of the new Constitutional Court that was created in the 2010 Constitution.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)