SC issues status quo order on Noy’s ‘midnight appointment’ edict By Benjamin B. Pulta 10/14/2010

SC issues status quo order on Noy’s ‘midnight appointment’ edict

By Benjamin B. Pulta 10/14/2010

A status quo order has been issued by the Supreme Court (SC) on Malacañang’s controversial Executive Order No. 2 ordering the layoff of state workers deemed as “midnight appointees” by the Aquino administration.
In a minute resolution, the SC en banc through Clerk of Court Enriqueta Vidal, ordered the parties in three separate cases which had been consolidated into one single suit “to observe the status quo prevailing before the issuance of EO 2 dated July 30, 2010.”

The three suits had been filed separately by lawyers Cheloy Garafil,Eddie Tamondong and Bai Omera Dianalan-Lucman. Respondents in the three suits include Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. and Solicitor General Jose Anselmo Cadiz.

Tamondong was a director of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) during the Arroyo administration while Lucman was a former National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) commissioner and secretary.

Last September, Garafil, aformer prosecutor, was verbally told to quit her post in the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) without due process..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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