(CBC) A Quebec judge has failed in her bid to halt disciplinary proceedings against her after she refused to hear the case of a woman wearing a hijab.
In February 2015, Quebec court Judge Eliana Marengo refused to hear a routine traffic matter involving Montrealer Rania El-Alloul unless she agreed to remove her hijab, which Marengo described as “inappropriate.”
Marengo has argued in three levels of court that Quebec’s Council of the Magistrature — the body responsible for disciplining judges in Quebec — doesn’t have jurisdiction to investigate several complaints that were filed against her after the hijab incident.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday it won’t hear Marengo’s appeal.
