The Mexican Federal Judicial Weekly (Spanish; Castilian: Semanario Judicial de la Federación) contains the published Spanish; Castilian: jurisprudencias of the judiciary of Mexico.
Mexico utilizes a form of French: [[jurisprudence constante]]. The decisions of the Supreme Court are binding on lower courts as Spanish; Castilian: jurisprudencias only upon five consecutive and uninterrupted decisions (Spanish; Castilian: ejecutorias) approved by at least eight justices when in plenary sessions (French: [[en banc]]) or by at least four justices when in chambers. The decisions of the Collegiate Circuit Courts are Spanish; Castilian: jurisprudencias 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 (Spanish; Castilian: tesis), of which the Spanish; Castilian: tesis jurisprudencial are binding (Spanish; Castilian: jurisprudencia obligatoria), the Spanish; Castilian: tesis aisladas are not binding, and the Spanish; Castilian: tesis sobresalientes are theses of note which are not binding but have persuasive value.
Such decisions are published through its gazette (Spanish; Castilian: Gaceta del Semanario Judicial de la Federación). Complete decisions are rarely published in the Spanish; Castilian: Semanario, though it is not unheard of if the Supreme Court, a collegiate circuit court, or the General Coordinator of Compilation and Systematization of Theses (Spanish; Castilian: Coordinación General de Compilación y Sistematización de Tesis) deems they should be published; instead, it mainly includes Spanish; Castilian: tesis de jurisprudencia or Spanish; Castilian: tesis aisladas.[1] Moreover, theses that have acquired the character of binding criteria (Spanish; Castilian: tesis de jurisprudencia) are published every year in an appendix to the Spanish; Castilian: Semanario.[1]
The Spanish; Castilian: Semanario is broken down into series of nine Spanish; Castilian: Épocas. The first four Spanish; Castilian: Épocas (1871–1910) are called Spanish; Castilian: jurisprudencia histórica and are not binding; the Spanish; Castilian: jurisprudencia applicable starting with the fifth Spanish; Castilian: Época (1918–1957) are binding. The most recent is the tenth Spanish; Castilian: Época (October 2011–).
In some jurisdictions, there may also exist executive administrative courts, which are not bound by these Spanish; Castilian: jurisprudencias.[2] [3]