G.R. No. 106971 – 214 SCRA 789 – Political Law – Commission on Appointments’ membership; Apportionment of Senate’s 12 seats – Rounding Off After the May 1992 elections, the senate was composed of 15 LDP senators, 5 NPC senators, 3 LAKAS-NUCD senators, and 1 LP-PDP-LABAN senator. To suffice the […]
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G.R. No. L-42571-72 – 208 Phil. 490 – 123 SCRA 569 – Political Law – Subject Shall Be Expressed in the Title – Police Power Not Validly Exercise Vicente De La Cruz et al were club & cabaret operators. They assail the constitutionality of Ord. No. 84, Ser. of […]
G.R. No. 74457 – 232 Phil. 615 – 148 SCRA 659 – Political Law – Police Power – Not Validly Exercised There had been an existing law which prohibited the slaughtering of carabaos (EO 626). To strengthen the law, Marcos issued EO 626-A which not only banned the movement […]
G.R. No. L-34915 – 207 Phil. 648 – 122 SCRA 759 – Political Law – Police Power – Not Validly Exercised Quezon City enacted an ordinance entitled “ORDINANCE REGULATING THE ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF PRIVATE MEMORIAL TYPE CEMETERY OR BURIAL GROUND WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF QUEZON CITY AND PROVIDING […]
G.R. No. 118882 – 330 Phil. 1034 – 262 SCRA 452 – Political Law – Due Process – Even the State is Entitled to It Jane Go was being sued criminally for the death of her husband. The case was lodged before the sala of Judge Pedro Espina of […]
G.R. No. 119712 – 362 Phil. 1 – 302 SCRA 362 – Political Law – Due Process – Right to be Heard – Opportunity to be Heard In 1968 and 1969, Continental Cement Corp. entered into a loan contract with DBP. In 1979, CCC entered into a MOA with […]
G.R. No. 98310 – 331 Phil. 795 – 263 SCRA 490 – Political Law – Due Process – Right to Be Heard – Not Being Party to a Case In 1973, license was issued to Milagros Matuguina to operate logging businesses under her group Matuguina Logging Enterprises. MIWPI was […]
G.R. No. 139465 – 397 Phil. 423 – 322 SCRA 160 – Political Law – Due Process – Right to be informed of the charges Mark Jimenez was charged of multiple crimes ranging from tax evasion to wire tapping to conspiracy to defraud the USA. Jimenez was then wanted […]
G.R. No. 179462 – 598 Phil. 464 – 578 SCRA 648 – Political Law – Due Process – Right to Counsel Pedro Consulta was indicted for stealing a gold necklace worth 3.5k owned by a certain Silvestre. He was convicted by the lower court. Consulta raised before the CA […]
G.R. No. L-46392 – 229 Phil. 362 – 145 SCRA 360 – Political Law – Due Process Emma Delgado together with 3 others were charged with estafa. Delgado was assisted by one Atty. Yco. Atty. Yco has filed for multiple postponement of trial and one time he failed to […]
G.R. No. L-37051 – 173 Phil. 528 – 78 SCRA 485 – Political Law – Due Process – Hearing Lorenzana was renting a parcel of land from the Manila Railroad Company (later from the Bureau of Lands). She later purchased the land (San Lazaro Estate). She had the property […]
G.R. No. L-49360 – 183 Phil. 315 – 94 SCRA 707 – Political Law – Due Process – Hearing David has a large parcel of land in Polomolok, Cotabato. He let Felomeno Jugar and Ricardo Jugar tend and caretake separate portions of his land in 1971. The land is […]
G.R. Nos. L-69640-45 – 220 Phil. 644 – 136 SCRA 266 – Political Law – Due Process – Hostility Between the Judge and the Parties – Inhibition Paderanga was the mayor of Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental. He petitioned that J Azura inhibits himself from deciding on pending cases brought […]
G.R. No. 157882 – 520 Phil. 457 – 485 SCRA 586 – Political Law – Constitutional Law – Police Power – Eminent Domain In 1987, EO 279 was promulgated which allowed the DENR Secretary to allow foreign corporations to conduct mining explorations in the Philippines. In 1994, the government […]
G.R. No. L-59234 – 202 Phil. 925 – 119 SCRA 597 – Political Law – Constitutional Law – Police Power Petitioner Taxicab Operators of Metro Manila, Inc. (TOMMI) is a domestic corporation composed of taxicab operators, who are grantees of Certificates of Public Convenience to operate taxicabs within the City […]
G.R. No. L-5060 – 15 Phil. 85 – Political Law – Police Power – Limitations on Private Ownership – General Welfare Sometime in the 1900s, Toribio applied for a permit to have his carabao slaughtered for human consumption. His request was denied because his carabao was found not unfit […]