Brazil supreme court majority votes against restriction of indigenous land claims sought by farm lobby

A majority on Brazil's Supreme Court has voted against a cut-off date limiting Indigenous land claims, a restriction sought by the country's powerful farm lobby to block rights to land that Indigenous people did not live on in 1988.

The top court said 6 of its 11 justices rejected that deadline on the grounds that it was unconstitutional, and two judges voted to introduce the limit to end land conflicts and give farmers juridical security.

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