Semanario Judicial de la Federación

The Mexican Federal Judicial Weekly () contains the published  of the judiciary of Mexico.

Mexico utilizes a form of . The decisions of the Supreme Court are binding on lower courts as  only upon five consecutive and uninterrupted decisions () approved by at least eight justices when in plenary sessions () or by at least four justices when in chambers. The decisions of the Collegiate Circuit Courts are  provided they are based upon five consecutive and uninterrupted decisions approved by unanimity of votes of the magistrates who compose each collegiate court. Decisions are distilled into theses (), of which the  are binding (), the  are not binding, and the  are theses of note which are not binding but have persuasive value.

Such decisions are published through its gazette (). Complete decisions are rarely published in the , though it is not unheard of if the Supreme Court, a collegiate circuit court, or the General Coordinator of Compilation and Systematization of Theses () deems they should be published; instead, it mainly includes  or . Moreover, theses that have acquired the character of binding criteria () are published every year in an appendix to the .

The  is broken down into series of nine . The first four  (1871–1910) are called  and are not binding; the  starting with the fifth  (1918–1957) are binding. The most recent is the tenth  (October 2011–).

In some jurisdictions, there may also exist executive administrative courts, which are not bound by these .

References

External links
 Federal Judicial Weekly from the Supreme Court