House to defy high court’s status quo ante order
SC stops Merci’s impeachment, 8-3
By Benjamin B. Pulta and Gerry Baldo
09/15/2010
Saved by the Supreme Court (SC) bell—at least for now.
A status quo ante order has been handed down by a polarized high court stopping the impeachment of controversial Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.
In a two page resolution, the SC en banc through Assistant Clerk of Court Felipa Anama required parties “to observe the status quo prevailing before the issuance of the Sept. 1, 2010 and Sept. 7, 2010 resolutions of the House committee on justice.”
Two leaders of the House of Representatives said the House is going to ignore the order of the SC suspending the impeachment proceedings against Gutierrez even under pain of contempt.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100915hed1.html
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