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[6] According to Oposa, the case should be called Oposa with Factoran because his friend Kuya Jun Factoran, a human rights lawyer, actually encouraged to sue the government using his name as the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and to include the dozens of children as real-parties-in-interest, while it was the ...
1993 elections in the Philippines (3 P) S. 1993 in Philippine sport (3 C, 3 P) T. 1993 in Philippine television (2 C, 1 P) ... Oposa v. Factoran This page was ...
Antonio Tony Oposa Jr. is a creative litigator, organizer and activist for environmental legislation in the Philippines.Oposa helped to litigate one of the first class-action suits taken by children to oppose environmentally-harmful actions taken by their government: in the 1990s, he represented 43 children from a local village to stop deforestation around the village that had been authorized ...
[2]: 367–368 The Oposa v. Factoran case, centered on environmental protection, saw the court recognize the rights of future generations. [5] Writs of amparo and habeas data were approved in 2007, to better enable courts to deal with extrajudicial killings and disappearances. [6] [7] In 2008 it rewrote libel guidelines, reducing penalties.
Factoran received both his Bachelor of Arts in humanities and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of the Philippines, where he was valedictorian of his law class. [2] He then completed a Master of Law at Harvard Law School in the United States. [2] A longtime lawyer, he was the managing partner of Factoran & Associates Law Offices in ...
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Date Branch Department Party People Involved Summary Source 1946 Executive: Office of the President: Liberal: Manuel Roxas: Surplus War Property scandal- disposed $90 billion of surplus war property held by the United States government in the final year of World War II, which caused a huge corruption scandal that led to the rise of the leftist HUKBALAHAP and for Roxas's approval ratings to ...
A Filipino court case Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status name name The short name of the case, which should preferably be the same as the article title. If the parameter is omitted, the article name is used. String optional Court court The name of the court that the case was heard in. Should be one of: SC (Supreme Court), RTC (Regional Trial Court), CA ...