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It undermines Supreme Court decisions that stress the importance of paying taxes . . ." Gatmaytan wrote that the commissioners were wrong to cite Republic of the Philippines vs. Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos (2009), a case wherein the High Court supposedly ruled that failure to file a tax return is not a crime involving moral turpitude.
The quo warranto petition against Maria Lourdes Sereno, filed before the Supreme Court of the Philippines, led to the landmark case Republic v. Sereno [note 1] (G. R. No. 237428), [3] [4] [5] which nullified Maria Lourdes Sereno's appointment as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, finding that she never lawfully held the office due to a lack of integrity for failing to file ...
(Bloomberg) -- The Philippines’ top court on Tuesday decided to release the initial results of the vice-presidential vote recount, which the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ son said will delay ...
The Supreme Court (Filipino: Kataas-taasang Hukuman; [2] colloquially referred to as the Korte Suprema (also used in formal writing), is the highest court in the Philippines. The Supreme Court was established by the Second Philippine Commission on June 11, 1901 through the enactment of its Act No. 136, [3] an Act which abolished the Real ...
Court: Supreme Court of the Philippines en banc: Full case name; Jose Jesus M. Disini, Jr., Rowena S. Disini, Lianne Ivy P. Medina, Janette Toral and Ernesto Sonido, Jr., vs. the Secretary of Justice, the Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, the Executive Director of the Information and Communications Technology Office, the Chief of the Philippine National Police ...
As with the other cases, the Supreme Court condensed all the cases to one case. The court ruled on April 21, 2009, that the 2% election threshold unconstitutional, and stipulated that for every four legislative districts created, one seat for sectoral representatives should be created; this thereby increased the sectoral seats in the 14th ...
On February 19, 2019, the Supreme Court voted 9–4 to dismiss the petitions and uphold the constitutionality of the third extension of martial law in Mindanao. [ 27 ] The state of martial law ended with the third extension lapsing by the end of 2019, 953 days after it was first declared. [ 28 ]
Claiming the votes in Maguindanao were tainted, [4] Pimentel petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to invalidate the votes from Maguindanao, effectively disenfranchising a whole province. The Supreme Court voted unanimously 14–0 against Pimentel and allowed the COMELEC to count the votes in Zubiri's favor.