Opposition Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan said Wednesday that a second motion for reconsideration may be filed to “correct” the Supreme Court decision granting the quo warranto petition that ousted former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.
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Ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Tuesday accused President Rodrigo Duterte of weakening the rule of law, hours after the Supreme Court upheld its May 11 decision to grant a government petition to remove her from office.
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The Chief Justice post is now officially vacant.
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Petitioners pushing for the legalization of same-sex marriage is fighting for their “freedom to love.” “Petitioners ask the honorable court to rule for same-sex marriage, to rule for love, for to love is to be human. We are simply asking your honor for the freedom to love,” Darwin Angeles, counsel for petitioner Jesus Nicardo Falcis […]
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The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community may lose a very interesting case for “aggressively” taking the case to the Supreme Court “without a careful preparation,” a Supreme Court Associate Justice said Tuesday.
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Ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is undecided whether or not she will run in the 2019 midterm elections.
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The Supreme Court (SC) has nixed the government’s bid to claim P51-billion from the estate of the late Ferdinand Marcos and his cronies for damages over alleged ill-gotten wealth.
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A group of clergymen is opposing the bid of Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Martires to succeed Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales for his refusal to inhibit himself from the tribunal’s deliberations on the quo warranto petition that led to Maria Lourdes Sereno’s ouster as Chief Justice.
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The Supreme Court has started preparing for the June 19 oral arguments on a petition filed three years ago seeking a revision of the Family Code to allow same sex marriages in the Philippines.
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Ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno said she was only defending herself and had no intention to cast ill motives on members of the Supreme Court when she made public remarks on the quo warranto issue.
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