The Supremes weigh in

Gay marriage wasn’t the only heavy news from The Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación recently.  The News:

The Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday a law that allows the Military to discharge soldiers if their obesity impedes them from carrying out their assignments.

Although justices upheld the provisions included in the Law for Social Security for the Armed Forces, the court granted an injunction to a soldier who was wrongly discharged for being overweight. Justices said the officer could resume his service in the Armed Forces.

They ruled that the plaintiff’s obesity did not impair him from carrying out his military duties in the area to which he was assigned.

The justices who granted the injunction argued that the army had violated the officer’s individual guarantees by discharging him because it was not specifically due to health reasons, as specified in the first, fourth and fifth articles of the Constitution.

Justices said they considered that the law – which specified obesity to be a reasonable cause for a military officer to be discharged if it became a “disability” – didn’t violate the Mexican Constitution.