Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
SC decision on changing rally venue lauded
MANILA, Philippines–Lawyers lauded the Supreme Court in its decision telling local executives not to unilaterally change the venue indicated in a…
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Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
DoJ chief not yet resigning for election bid
MANILA, Philippines Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera said on Wednesday she was not leaving her post yet, despite a Supreme Court ruling, which deemed all appointive officials running for elective posts resigned. In an interview at the sidelines of the bail hearing of Andal Ampatuan Jr
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
SC welcomes clarificatory cases on appointive execs running in polls
MANILA, Philippines — A spokesman for the Supreme Court admitted that the court would welcome clarificatory questions on when its ruling on appointive officials running in the May elections would take effect.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
New appeals court chief sworn in
MANILA, Philippines Court of Appeals Associate Justice Andres Reyes Jr. has been sworn in as the new presiding justice of the appellate court. Reyes took his oath of office before Supreme Court Chief…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
DoJ chief to abide by SC final ruling, says she needs to campaign, too
MANILA, Philippines — Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera said she will abide by the Supreme Court decision on appointed officials seeking electoral posts only when it becomes final and executory. Devanadera is running as representative…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Uneasy corona on new Chief Justices head
ZOOMING IN 02/17/2010 The second most senior associate justice of the Supreme Court (SC) has informed the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) that he is willing to accept an appointment as Chief Justice from Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during the period from election day to June 30, 2010, during which period Arroyo is barred by the Constitution from making appointments in the executive branch of the government. Prior to Justice Renato Coronas advice to the JBC, the most senior associate justice, Antonio Carpio, and the fourth most senior associate justice, Conchita Carpio-Morales, had jointly informed the JBC of their willingness to accept a JBC nomination for the highest position in this countrys…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Villa-Ignacios disqualification from CJ race eyed
By Benjamin B. Pulta 02/03/2010 Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa-Ignacio should be disqualified from the race for the chief justice position being processed by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) since he had been sanctioned which sanction was imposed by the Supreme Court (SC) on March 14, 2001 when he was still the Judge of Makati RTC Branch 143 as well as for having pending administrative and criminal cases against him before the Office of the Ombudsman which he failed to disclose in his government forms. JBC member, retired SC Justice Regino Hermosisima, pointed out that the Internal Rules of the JBC state that those penalized and those with pending cases cannot be nominated for promotion…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
SC strikes down ordinance barring ’short-time’ in motels
WITH Valentine’s Day just around the corner, expect hotels, motels, inns, pension and lodging houses in Manila to be quite full, especially after the Supreme Court yesterday finally struck down as unconstitutional an ordinance prohibiting short-time admissions and wash-up rate promos in such establishments. In an en banc decision penned by Associate Justice Dante Tinga, the SC unanimously affirmed and reinstated the ruling of branch 9 of the Manila regional trial court which declared…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Passing the buck of failure again
FRONTLINE 01/30/2010 Looks like the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines arent performing well. According to a QTV report, poll machines failed to read ballots and transmit data in two separate field tests conducted by the poll body in Pateros yesterday. The report said four out of 10 valid sample ballots were rejected by the Smartmatic machines in Aguho Elementary School.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Filipino drug mule’s death verdict affirmed by Malaysian court
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Malaysian supreme court has upheld the death sentenced meted out to a Filipino “drug mule” caught smuggling over 500 grams of cocaine at the Kuala Lumpur International…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
An unconstitutional peace pact again?
FRONTLINE 01/29/2010 With some five months to go before she departs Malacañang, Gloria Arroyo is still pushing through with a peace pact with the Moro secessionists, which will still give them the so-called ancestral homeland they have been demanding from this government. Malacañang says that the new peace pact, or the second Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) for the Bangsa Moro people, which is really the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels, will follow the constitutional path, unlike the first one, which was struck down by the high court for being unconstitutional. The idea apparently is to divide…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
LTO stops tagging vehicles
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Land Transportation Office has suspended the mandatory electronic tagging of motor vehicles after the Supreme Court issued a restraining order against its radio frequency identification (RFID) registration scheme. Motor vehicle owners will therefore be allowed to register or renew the registration of their vehicles without having to get the RFID tags, said a memorandum from LTO Chair Arturo…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
LTO to comply with SC stop order on RFID
MANILA, Philippines — The Land Transportation Office (LTO) suspended the mandatory electronic tagging of motor vehicles in deference to a Supreme Court restraining order against the agency’s Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) registration scheme. It, however, was mum on…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Holding the aces
FRONTLINE 01/13/2010 It wont be admitted publicly by opposing camps, but the issue of who should appoint the next chief justice is all about politics, not only being played by those opposing the move for Gloria Arroyo to name Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno, but also within, and among the SC justices. The highest ambition of an SC associate justice is to become the chief justice. Thats normal, by the way, and no one should begrudge any justice in the high court for aiming for that position
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Still no justice
BLURBAL THRUSTS 01/10/2010 The Supreme Court has been quite generous to the octogenarian billionaire businessman Alfonso Yuchengco Sr. Last November, the high court gave him an early Christmas gift he probably wont ever forget for the rest of his life. In a ruling totally unexpected by the Fourth Estate, the high tribunal found the owner and several employees of a shuttered broadsheet newspaper guilty of libel for putting out a series of defamatory articles some 15 years ago portraying the former ambassador to the United Nations, whom the respected Forbes magazine has consistently ranked among the richest men in the country, as a Marcos crony, Marcos-Romualdez crony and corporate…