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League of Cities of the Philippines v. COMELEC is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines about the validity of the cityhood laws of 16 municipalities in the Philippines. The case clarifies the requirements for the conversion of a municipality into a component city .
Oposa v. Factoran, G.R. No. 101083, 224 S.C.R.A. 792 (1993), alternatively titled Minors Oposa v.Factoran or Minors Oposa, is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines recognizing the doctrine of intergenerational responsibility on the environment in the Philippine legal system.
"Leading case" is commonly used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth jurisdictions instead of "landmark case", as used in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Commonwealth countries, a reported decision is said to be a leading decision when it has come to be generally regarded as settling the law of the question involved.
Amparo in Argentina is a limited, summary, emergency procedure, and merely supplementary, requiring previous exhaustion of administrative remedies before rendition of judgment of mandamus or injunction. The decision bars monetary awards and penal provisions except contempt or declaration of unconstitutionality. [20]
Pursuant to the Constitution, the Court of Appeals "reviews not only the decisions and orders of the Regional Trial Courts awards, judgments, final orders or resolutions of, or authorized by administrative agencies exercising quasi-judicial functions mentioned in Rule 43 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure, plus the National Amnesty Commission ...
[6] [8]: 17 The 2010 rules of procedure for environmental cases established by the Supreme Court were a first for any country. [ 3 ] : 10866 In 2015 the court recognized the standing of cetaceans , including "toothed whales, dolphins, [and] porpoises", [ 5 ] [ 11 ] who while lacking independent legal personality could be represented by ...
Reaction to the case was mixed. Before the verdict in April 2020, the annual Press Freedom Index report by Reporters Without Borders ranked the Philippines 136 out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom. [63] Historically, since the end of martial law under Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines was regarded as having one of the most free ...
People of the Philippines v. Hernandez , 99 Phil. Rep 515 (1956) , was a case decided by the Philippine Supreme Court which held that the crime of rebellion under the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines is charged as a single offense, and that it cannot be made into a complex crime. [ 1 ]