SC: Arlegui property case decision final 06/01/2010

SC: Arlegui property case decision final

06/01/2010 Any plans for the new Chief Executive to move in to the so-called Arlegui guest house across Malacañang maybe fraught with complications. SC Court Administrator and spokesman Jose Midas Marquez said the high court had ordered the entry of judgment in connection with the sprawling Arlegui property as early as Dec. 16, 2008. The Arlegui property was a residential house that was seized from its real owners during martial law by the cronies of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. Marquez said the high court “affirmed with modification” the Oct. 4, 2007 decision, and the records of the case were remanded to the Manila Regional Trial Court on March 18 last year, for the execution of the decision. “The motion for reconsideration before the SC concerning the Arlegui house has been denied with finality and entry of judgment has been made,” he said in a text message to reporters, but declined to give details. It remains unclear whether the government and the owner of the Arlegui property — Tarcila Laperal Mendoza, who is now in her 90s – have already forged a settlement, although sources said the court-ordered payments had already been settled.... MORE    Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100601nat4.html

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