Solon asks Supreme Court to decide on Luisita’s case with finality 09/16/2010

Solon asks Supreme Court to decide on Luisita’s case with finality
09/16/2010
A farmer-lawmaker yesterday asked the Supreme Court (SC) to settle the Hacienda Luisita case with finality.

Rep. Rafael Mariano, Anakpawis party-list, made the recommendation as the SC has mediated the case of the controversial agrarian dispute involving a more than 6,000-hectare sugar plantation owned by the family of President Noynoy Aquino for almost five years. 

Mariano said “the Supreme Court should once and for all decide on the case in light of Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI)’s denial that they already dropped their position to retain the stock distribution option (SDO) scheme.”

HLI spokesman Tony Ligon, denied claims of farmers’ lawyer of a “breakthrough” and that the estate’s owners had offered to give up the land..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100916nat5.html