ILOILO CITY – The Supreme Court has junked the petition that questioned the real property tax increase by the Iloilo City government under the administration of Mayor Jerry Treñas. The SC en banc dismissed the March 2024 petition of the Riverside Group of Companies for failure to follow legal...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon has highlighted another perceived lapse in the legal strategy of impeachment respondent Vice President Sara Duterte’s defense team. And this one is so big that Ridon believes the Duterte camp shouldn 't even be allowed to join the impending Senate...
Police arrested a 24-year-old woman for allegedly impersonating a lawyer and offering legal assistance to a detainee 's son near the Makati City Jail in Barangay Post Proper Northside in Taguig. The suspect, identified as Lauraine, faces charges for violation of Article 177 (usurpation of...
The former spokesperson of the Senate impeachment court under then Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero said that the Supreme Court’s 14-0-1 decision on the term “forthwith” only proved that the critics were wrong, former Senate impeachment court spokesperson Atty. Regie Tongol said. ...
Executive Secretary Ralph Recto said Malacañang will comply with the Supreme Court’s directive to comment on a petition seeking the disclosure of President Marcos’ health condition. Recto, in an interview on Friday, April 24, confirmed that the government is preparing its response following...
The Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI) is escalating its fight against substandard goods, petitioning the Supreme Court to strip lower courts of their power to freeze the enforcement of mandatory product standards. In a letter-petition addressed to the high tribunal, the country’s largest...
Malacañang said it will comply with the directive of the Supreme Court requiring President Marcos to comment on a petition seeking the disclosure of his medical examination report. Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary Claire Castro said this after the Supreme Court directed...
A congressman-endorser of one of the two active impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte in unfazed by the mounting number of Supreme Court (SC) petitions against the proceedings. “Hindi kami naaapektuhan ng mga petisyon. Tuloy ang proseso hangga’t walang utos na pumipigil...
The Supreme Court’s intervention in the impeachment case involving Vice President Sara Duterte now puts the Supreme Court’s powers under trial. Former Senate President Franklin Drilon pointed this out as he believes Duterte’s impeachment case would be a major test of the extent of the Supreme...
Lawyer-legislator Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon argued on Saturday, April 11 that the claims of anti-impeachment petitions filed before the Supreme Court (SC) by both the legal team and the supporters of Vice President Sara Duterte simply do not hold water. Ridon, a member of the House...
The supporters as well as the legal team of Vice President Sara Duterte are just "wasting paper" at this point. House Committee on Justice member, Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon gave this retort on Friday night, April 10 on the fresh petition filed before the Supreme Court (SC) to halt the...
The impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte are increasingly being framed not just as a political battle, but as a defining constitutional test, following a new petition-in-intervention filed before the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Lawyers and Mindanao-based leaders...
