Sandigan justice Ong is Filipino, SC rules

The Supreme Court has ruled with finality that Sandiganbayan Justice Gregory Ong is a natural-born Filipino, dismissing challenges to his citizenship.

The Supreme Court has ruled with finality that Sandiganbayan Justice Gregory Ong is a natural-born Filipino, dismissing challenges to his citizenship.
With little more than a week before voters troop to the poll precincts on May 13, senatorial candidate Dick Gordon has asked the Supreme Court to compel the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to allow the political parties to examine and review the source code of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines to be used in the elections.

The Supreme Court ruled that Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Gregory Ong is a Filipino citizen.
A CLERK of the Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) in Danao City was ordered dismissed from service by the Supreme Court (SC) for dishonesty.

The Supreme Court has upheld Malacañang’s ouster of a senior executive of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) who was an appointee of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Partylist representatives on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision that allowed non-marginalized groups to participate in the partylist polls.

Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno reminded new lawyers not to be corrupt.
Any pending appeal before the Supreme Court will have to wait until after May.

The formal preliminary investigation into the infamous Quezon “shootout” will push through as there is no order from the Supreme Court stopping the probe, Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said Tuesday.

The Supreme Court has stopped the implementation of the Court of Appeals ruling that ordered the dropping of syndicated estafa case against one of the accused in the questionable P6-billion loan given by Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMC/PagIbig) to buyers of Globe Asiatique.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. is set to answer this question when he reveals on Monday his decision on whether or not he will stay on to oversee the second automated balloting on May 13.

Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. should finish first the mid-term elections in May before thinking of changing careers, Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero said over the weekend.

President Benigno Aquino III has sent a message to Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr., urging him not to go through with his threat to resign in protest against successive Supreme Court rulings adverse to the Comelec.