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(Eagle News) — Voting 9-5, the Supreme Court on Tuesday (November 8) voted to allow the burial of the late President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery). The nine high court justices who voted to allow the burial are Associate Justices Arturo Brion, Presbitero Velasco Jr, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Mariano del Castillo, Jose Perez, Teresita de Castro, Jose Mendoza, and Estela Perlas-Bernabe. The justice who dissented were Chief Justice Maria […]
(Eagle News) — The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) asked the supreme court to nullify President Benigno S. Aquino III’s appointment of two associate justices to the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan. In a petition, the IBP said Aquino violated the constitution when he appointed former Cebu City Regional Trial Court Branch 9 presiding judge Geraldine Faith Econg and undersecretary Michael Frederick Musngi of the Office of Special Concerns at the Office of the President to […]
Tuluyan nang ibinasura ng Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) ang dalawa sa mga kaso ni dating Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona. Ito’y dahil pumanaw na noong Abril 29 ang dating punong mahistrado sa edad na 67 dahil sa cardiac arrest. Ayon sa korte, hindi na maaaring idiin ang isang akusado kung ito ay pumanaw na dahil hindi na nito maipagtatanggol ang sarili. Nag-ugat ang mga kaso ni Corona sa umano’y mga hindi nito […]
The Supreme Court has upheld the decision of the Commission on Audit disallowing the unauthorized extraordinary and miscellaneous expenses received by the officials of the Local Water Authority in 2006.
Former Congressman Augusto Syjuco Jr., asked the Supreme Court to continue hearing of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) despite said case being asked by the government to be dismissed for being moot and academic.
