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On May 16 and 17, 2022, respectively, two post-election petitions to deem Bongbong Marcos disqualified and declare void ab initio his certificate of candidacy in the 2022 Philippine presidential election were filed with the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
A party who wants the Supreme Court to review a decision of a federal or state court files a "petition for writ of certiorari" in the Supreme Court. A "petition" is printed in booklet format and 40 copies are filed with the Court. [33] If the Court grants the petition, the case is scheduled for the filing of briefs and for oral argument.
On 3 November 2022, former acting secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology Eliseo Rio Jr., former Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Gus Lagman, and ex-Finance Executives Institute president Franklin Ysaac, filed a "politically neutral urgent petition" in the Supreme Court of the Philippines, wherein they alleged that in the 9 May 2022 presidential ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court (SC) is the highest court of the land and is the court of last resort. [ 1 ] : 6 It is led by the Chief Justice , who is joined by 14 Associate Justices . [ 1 ] : 39 The court has expansive powers and a constitutional responsibility to oversee other branches of government, able even to overrule the discretion of political and ...
It consists of 6 senators nominated by the Senate, and 3 justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, who are designated by the Chief Justice. The equivalent tribunals for elections to the lower house is the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal and to president and vice presidents is Presidential Electoral Tribunal .
Several petitions were almost immediately submitted to the Supreme Court questioning the constitutionality of the Act upon its signing, [10] including the petition of Jose Jesus M. Disini, Jr. on September 25, [11] [12] a Harvard-educated lawyer and law professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law from whose name the title of ...