49 for the pecuniary damage suffered. Consequently, it requested the Court to establish, based on the principle of equity, the amount of the compensation corresponding to indirect damage and loss of earnings, without detriment to the claims that the common intervenors would submit at the opportune procedural moment. (c) It is important to recognize the non-pecuniary damage caused to the alleged victims, who were the object of sudden dismissal – which was a cause of anguish, bearing in mind that their employment was the principal source of income for the families of most of the alleged victims – and who were unable to contest these decisions before any competent body. Hence, the State should adopt the necessary measures to ensure that the alleged victims receive adequate and opportune reparation for the non-pecuniary damage suffered; (d) Regarding other forms of reparation, in this case integral reparation is necessary; consequently, it asked the Court to order the State to: i. ii. iii. iv. (e) Guarantee the 257 dismissed congressional employees access to a simple, prompt and effective judicial recourse so that their claims in relation to their dismissal by the Commission to Administer the Patrimony of the Congress of the Republic are reviewed; Guarantee the 257 dismissed congressional employees that this recourse will enjoy the corresponding judicial guarantees and lead to a ruling on the merits of the claims presented by the employees in the domestic sphere; Modify article 9 of Decree Law No. 25,640 and article 27 of Resolution No. 1239-A-92-CACL, to harmonize them with the American Convention, and Adopt the legal, administrative and any other measures necessary to avoid similar facts occurring in future, in compliance with the obligations of prevention and guarantee of the fundamental rights recognized by the American Convention, and Regarding costs and expenses, it stated that, when it had heard the common intervenors, the Court should order the State to pay the costs and expenses duly authenticated by them, bearing in mind the special characteristics of the case in its processing before both the interAmerican system and at the national level. The common intervenors’ arguments 138. The common intervenors alleged, inter alia, that: (a) The beneficiaries are the dismissed employees mentioned by the Commission. Nevertheless, it should be taken into account that the list includes six persons who are now deceased, so that the reparations corresponding to them should be allocated to their legitimate successors;