THE Supreme Court voted 8-7 today to declare as unconstitutional the scuttled memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
The MOA-AD, the third agreement to have come...
THE Supreme Court ruled last September 4 to reaffirm its March 25 decision upholding the claim of executive privilege by former socioeconomic planning secretary Romulo Neri over the three questions asked of him by senators investigating the national...
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FOR transgressions of the Code of Judicial Conduct, committing "irregularities and improprieties" prejudicial to the integrity of the judiciary, five justices of the Court of Appeals were meted sanctions by the Supreme Court ranging from dismissal,...
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FORMER socioeconomic planning secretary Romulo Neri scored a legal victory when the Supreme Court said the Senate could not compel him to answer three questions that it found to be covered by executive privilege. But transparency advocates say the public...