Corona SC division gets Luisita case
By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/24/2010 After four years gathering dust, the Supreme Court (SC) has decided to revisit the Hacienda Luisita agrarian dispute case which will now be decided by its First Division headed by Chief Justice Renato Corona. Corona or-dered Clerk of Court lawyer Ma. Luisa Villa-rama to check on the status of the case involving the the family of President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino and farmer-beneficiaries of the 5,000-hectare sugar land in Tarlac in response to the request of various farmers’ groups urging the Chief Justice to act with dispatch and resolve the case of Hacienda Luisita in favor of agrarian reform beneficiaries. The case originally assigned to the Third Division was recently transferred to the First Division that is headed by the Chief Justice following a “court reorganization” which arose from the retirement of former Chief Justice Reynato Puno on May 17. The First Division is composed of Corona as chair-man, Associate Justice Presbitero Velasco Jr. as the working chairman, and Associate Justices Teresita Leonardo-De Castro, Mariano del Castillo and Jose Perez as members. The Third Division is headed by Associate Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales, who was handpicked by Noynoy to administer his presidential oath on June 30. The last action of the SC in the case was in June 2006 when it issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the decision of the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC) to place the sugar estate under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and have it distributed to farmer-beneficiaries. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100624hed4.html |
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