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(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has chosen Court of Appeals Justice Priscilla Baltazar-Padilla as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to fill in the post vacated by Supreme Court Associate Justice Andres Reyes Jr., who retired last May. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the announcement on Thursday, July 16, in a brief statement. “This is to announce that Court of Appeals Justice Priscilla J. Baltazar-Padilla has been appointed as Associate Justice of the […]
(Eagle News) – The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) announced the opening of applications for the Supreme Court (SC) and Court of Appeals (CA), with an online public interview of applicants set on Thursday, May 28. In an announcement, the JBC said the opening of applications is for the position of SC Associate Justice Jose C. Reyes Jr., who will be retiring in September 2020, as well as the position vacated by CA Presiding Justice […]
(Eagle News)-The Court of Appeals has reinstated murder charges against former Palawan Gov. Joel Reyes over the death of environmentalist Gerry Ortega. In its amended decision promulgated on Nov. 29, the special former eleventh division, special division of five, also ordered the arrest of Reyes, who had been cleared by the appellate court in January last year, citing lack of sufficient evidence for a finding of probable cause for his indictment. For this, the then-former […]
(Eagle News)–The three resource persons who were cited in contempt by a Senate panel probing the problems in the. Bureau of Corrections have sought the help of the Court of Appeals and filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In filing the petition on Wednesday, Sept. 18, Ramoncito Roque, Fredric Anthony Santos and Ursicio Cenas said the blue ribbon committee violated their right to due process when it supposedly did not give them […]
(Eagle News)–The Court of Appeals has junked former Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay’s petition challenging the warrant of arrest issued against him by a local court for violation of banking laws. In upholding the resolution issued by the CA’s Ninth Division in April, the CA noted that Yasay’s filing of the petition was “premature” given the several motions “fatal to the petition” that remained unresolved in Branch 10 of the Manila Regional Trial Court that […]
Cebu hospital also charged (Eagle News)–Former Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque has filed charges against at least 11 former and current officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. for allegedly reversing a Court of Appeals decision against a Cebu hospital, which was also charged. Charged for graft, usurpation of judicial functions, grave misconduct, gross neglect of duty, grave abuse of discretion and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service were filed before the Ombudsman […]
(Eagle News)–The Court of Appeals has junked the National Union of People’s Lawyers petition for a writ of amparo and habeas data. In junking the petition filed with the Supreme Court on April 15, the appellate court’s former special fifteenth division said the group failed to prove the participation of military officials in what it said were perpetrated state attacks against them. The SC, in a May 19 resolution, had ordered the appellate court to […]
(Eagle News) — The Court of Appeals has upheld its previous ruling that reversed the dismissal from government service of former Makati Mayor Junjun Binay for the allegedly anomalous construction of the P2.2-billion Makati City Hall Parking Building II. In denying the the appeal of the Ombudsman, which ordered Binay dismissed from government service in 2015, of its May 2018 ruling, the former 10th division reiterated the condonation doctrine which says that a “public official […]
(Eagle News)–The Court of Appeals has stood by its previous decision upholding the conviction of a critic of Senator Franklin Drilon for libel. In upholding its September 2018 decision, the former second division effectively affirmed the Pasay Regional Trial Court’s sentencing of Manuel Mejorada to up to four years and two months of imprisonment for his social media posts accusing Drilon of benefiting from the construction of projects including the Iloilo Convention Center. In a […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Tuesday, March 5, slammed as “an exercise in politics in aid of re-election” the Alliance of Concerned Teachers’ appeal of a Court of Appeals decision against a halt order on supposed police profiling. “The original petition was already dismissed and yet ACT PL (party-list) wishes to beat a dead horse,” Interior spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said in a statement. According to Malaya, the court’s […]
(Eagle News)—The Alliance of Concerned Teachers has asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider its earlier decision not to stop the Philippine National Police’s alleged profiling of the group’s members. In seeking for the appellate court’s reconsideration, ACT said its petition seeking for a halt order of the PNP’s supposed activities raised, after all, “issues involving gross violations of the petitoners’ fundamental constitutional rights” which include their right to association, right to assembly and […]
(Eagle News) — Muling nagbabala si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa mga hukom sa gitna ng kabi-kabilang mga nakalinyang proyekto ng pamahalaan kagaya ng Build, Build, Build infrastructure projects ng administrasyon. Sinabi ng Pangulo sa mga judge na pag-isipang mabuti ang magiging epekto sa mga kaliwa’t kanang government projects sa pag-iisyu ng mga ito ng injunction order kapalit ng pera. Banta ng Pangulo sa mga hukom na umayos at huwag maging daan upang maantala at matengga […]
