Tag: OSG

OSG asks DOJ to junk Peter Lim’s appeal for dismissal of drug complaint vs him, others

(Eagle News) — The Office of the Solicitor General has asked the Department of Justice to deny businessman Peter Lim’s motion seeking for the reinstatement of the Department of Justice’s panel of prosecutors’ resolution that dismissed the drug complaint against him and several others. The OSG, which represents the Philippine National Police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, made the request in a comment to Lim’s motion for reconsideration of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre’s order “vacating” […]

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Calida denies private citizen’s request for the OSG to file quo warranto vs SC justice De Castro

  (Eagle News) – The Office of the Solicitor General “denied for lack of merit” a request of a private citizen that the OSG also file a quo warranto petition against Supreme Court Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo De Castro. Solicitor General Jose Calida said that his office filed the quo warranto petition against Supreme Court Chief Justice on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno based on the evidence discovered during the impeachment hearings against her at the […]

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Calida calls Sereno a “liar”; says it was OSG that retrieved copies of some of her SALNs, not her

(Eagle News) — “Liar.” Solicitor General Jose Calida on Friday, April 13, accused Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno of lying after her spokesperson alleged she already “recovered” nine of her Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALNs). Belying Jojo Lacanilao’s statement, Calida said it was the Office of the Solicitor General that actually secured the copies of the 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997 SALNs of Sereno, and that submitted them to […]

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PNP: Anti-drug ops “constitutional, legal, implemented in interest of public safety”

(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police on Thursday, April 12, maintained its anti-drug operations were “constitutional, legal” and were “implemented in the interest of public safety.” PNP spokesperson Chief Supt. John Bulalacao made the statement after the Supreme Court, in its denial of the state’s motion for reconsideration of a 2017 SC order directing the PNP to release drug war reports, said that the killings in the drug war could be state-sponsored. The SC […]

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Sereno asks 4 SC justices to inhibit from quo warranto petition

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service   (Eagle News) — Supreme Court Chief Justice-on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno is asking four of the tribunal’s justices to “inhibit” from the quo warranto petition filed against her by the Office of the Solicitor General. Sereno filed a motion for inhibition against Associate Justices Noel Tijam, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin and Francis Jardeleza. Justice Tijam was the justice assigned to write whatever will be the decision on the […]

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Sereno to attend oral arguments on quo warranto petition

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Chief Justice on-leave Maria Lourdes Sereno will attend oral arguments on the quo warranto petition filed against her. Jojo Lacanilao, one of Sereno’s spokespersons, said Sereno will appear before her colleagues on April 10 and “engage them.” “We believe that Solicitor General (Jose) Calida is wrong in filing the petition,” Lacanilao said, reiterating that the “appropriate measure” to remove the Chief Justice was via impeachment. “We hope that the […]

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SC orders OSG to reply to Sereno comment on quo warranto petition

(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has directed the Office of the Solicitor General to respond to the comment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on the quo warranto petition filed against her. The SC en banc said on Tuesday that the OSG was given five days within receipt of the SC notice to submit the same. Calida filed the petition that seeks to have Sereno’s appointment as Chief Justice nullified, citing, among others, her failure […]

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CJ Sereno asks SC to dismiss OSG’s quo warranto petition for “lack of jurisdiction and merit”

  (Eagle News) – Insisting that she can only be removed by impeachment, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno asked the Supreme Court to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and merit the quo warranto petition filed by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) that claimed she was ineligible to be appointed as chief magistrate in 2012. In a 77-page comment to the quo warranto petition, Sereno, through her lawyers led by Alexander Poblador said that […]

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OSG to represent CIDG in seeking to overturn DOJ decision junking drug raps vs Espinosa, others

(Eagle News) — The Office of the Solicitor General will represent the Philippine National Police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in seeking to overturn a Department of Justice’s panel decision junking drug charges against Kerwin Espinosa and others. This is according to Solicitor General Jose Calida himself, who made the announcement in a tweet posted on Thursday afternoon. “As ‘Tribune of the People,’ the OSG will enter its appearance as counsel for PNP-CIDG..The Solicitor General […]

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SC asks Sereno to “submit comment” on OSG’s quo warranto petition vs her

  (Eagle News) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to “submit her comment” to the petition for quo warranto filed by the Office of the Solicitor General that questioned her eligibility to hold the position of Chief Justice. SC Public Information Office chief Atty. Theodore Te made this announcement in a press briefing Tuesday afternoon, March 6, 2018. He said that with the directive from the tribunal, […]

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SolGen Calida: The President has the authority to discipline the Deputy Ombudsman

(Eagle News)– The President had the authority to discipline the Deputy Ombudsman. Solicitor General Jose C. Calida, the government’s top lawyer,  issued the statement on Tuesday, following allegations President Rodrigo Duterte erred in suspending Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Carandang for grave misconduct and grave dishonesty. “The Constitution is clear that only the Ombudsman is subject to impeachment proceedings,” Calida said. According to Calida, “while silent as to the disciplinary authority over a Deputy Ombudsman, the subsequent […]

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Palace backs OSG decision to seek the filing of homicide raps vs Aquino, 2 others over botched Mamasapano operation

(Eagle News) — The Palace is backing the Office of the Solicitor General’s decision to ask the Supreme Court’s help in seeking the filing of homicide charges against former President Benigno Aquino III and two others over the botched Mamasapano operation in 2015. “The Solicitor General as counsel of the Government is correct. There ought to be accountability for those responsible for the SAF 44 debacle,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said, referring to the 44 […]

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