Planned Parenthood Inc., (PPI) in the U.S. A. gestated under the very concept outlined in the Reproductive Health Bill (RHB): to address maternal health, poor sexual education among Filipinos and uncontrolled childbirth. PPI is now the number one abortion provider in the U.S. RHB is a ‘Trojan’ horse that will morph into a full-pledge PPI once approved in…
The tables are turned. Defense counsel for CJ Justice Corona presented Congressman Tobias Tiangco on March 12, 2012 to prove that the articles of impeachment filed by the house against the jurist was flawed because it was impossible for the 188 congressmen to have read the complaint before affixing their signatures thereat and if ever they signed the…
Defense lawyer Serafin Cuevas, my venerable professor in civil procedure described the position of Senator Frank Drilon that the impeachment body was beyond the reach of the Supreme Court as “bankrupt” and without jurisprudential support. He gloated over the Francisco v. House of Representatives as an authority to the proposition that the Court has an oversight function…
Megaworld vs. Judge Cobarde, et. al. G.R. No. 156200. March 31, 2004. FACTS: In July 1995, Mar y Cielo Leisure Resort, Inc, owned by the Zamora family (MYC-Zamora for short) hired Matthew Jo and Ida Henares (to be referred hereinafter as Jo and Henares) to broker a joint venture between MYC-Zamora and Megaworld to develop MYC-Zamora’s beach-front properties in Lapu-Lapu, Cebu City consisting…
I volunteered my legal services to the prosecution team but I was spurned. Or my offer has not reached its recipient. Either way, this would not prevent me from kibitzing in this historic trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona for betraying a public trust, among others. I watched the trial on TV and video copied the…
A week before the impeachment trial of CJ Renato Corona, I emailed Congressman Neil Tupas, Jr., through his House website. My email could have been routed to his “spam” folder because I have not received any response; or simply, the team thought that they have every base already covered hence an outside help is not needed. But…
Nothing much can be achieved in the impeachment of CJ Corona even if successful in the Senate except to sear in the public memory that a radical change in the leadership of the Supreme Court, touted before as the “untouchable” branch of the government is but a myth. But surely, it will not alter the present dynamics…
Honorable Senators sitting as impeachment court, ladies and gentlemen in the galleries, citizens of the republic and friends. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, and President of Pixar, in 2005, five years before he died said: “Don’t be trapped with dogma, which is living with the results of others’ thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’…
Where the Supreme Court exercises its duty under the constitution, it is called “rule of law” but when Congress exercises the same function in accord with the same constitution, it is called “the mother of all blackmails”. It was a politically charge atmosphere in the House yesterday and Congressman Edcel Lagman cannot hide his displeasure over the decision…
The battlefield had been drawn, the war drums tapped; and swords unsheathed. An epic battle between a corrupt Supreme Court with a very low public rating and a very popular president is unfolding. You can predict the outcome. But victory will come only if the jurists whose reputations had been tarnished by injudicious partisan rulings, resign…
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