As Precedent
In December 2012, Mexico's highest judicial body, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, unanimously struck down a Oaxaca law which prohibited same-sex marriage, with a decision based in part in the Atala ruling's prohibition of "any rule, act, or discriminatory practice based on sexual orientation".
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