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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2006 
First Lady Sahagun Wins Round in Court
 Associated Press
| | Mexico's first lady Marta Sahagun de Fox won another round in court Monday, Oct. 16, 2006 when a judge reinstated an earlier decision ordering an Argentine journalist and a Mexican magazine to pay her $180,000 for invasion of privacy. (AP/Marco Ugarte) |
Mexico's first lady won another round in court Monday, when a judge reinstated an earlier decision ordering an Argentine journalist and a Mexican magazine to pay her $180,000 for invasion of privacy.
First lady Marta Sahagun's office announced in a statement that Judge Carlos Miguel Jimenez reinstated his April ruling that journalist Olga Wornat's article in the February 2005 issue of Proceso magazine sought to personally damage her.
In May, the Supreme Court ordered Jimenez to review his decision, saying he had not reviewed all the evidence.
But on Monday, the judge issued the same ruling as before: that the publication of a document annulling the first marriage of Sahagun, who married President Vicente Fox in 2001, constituted "a legitimate intrusion into the intimate life of the complainant," according to the statement.
Monday's ruling did not find fault with Wornat's facts.
A lawyer for Wornat, Cristian Zinser, told The Associated Press that she would appeal, saying, "this decision is not impartial."
Sahagun has maintained that Wornat and Proceso published the document for the sole purpose of attacking her reputation.
Lawyers for Wornat and Proceso argued that as a public figure, Sahagun should understand that the document, in which she petitioned the Vatican for the annulment of her marriage to Manuel Bribiesca, could be made public. |
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