Your move, Mr. Chief Justice!
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After laying down the newspaper, it was obvious my 15-year-old grandson who wants to be a lawyer was disturbed by what he called the Supreme Court (SC)’s “overreaction” to the petition of 37 UP law professors for the resignation of Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo for 23 counts of alleged plagiarism in connection with his decision in the “comfort women” case. My grandson conjured up a hypothetical scenario to press his point: A friendly basketball game between five students and five officials of their school.
A flagrant and deliberate foul was called by a student referee on an official who tackled a student in the act of laying up. The referee and five students invoked the rule on automatic disqualification. After the officials interviewed the fouler, they told all six students their call was baseless because the foul was not deliberate and not malicious. The students were then given 10 days to show cause why they shouldn’t be disciplined.
Asked about the situation confounding the UP law professors, I told my grandson I didn’t really know all the facts so I couldn’t make a comment. Besides, the Justices were then still in a bad mood… hmm, and to think I’ve been convincing him to take an interest in Medicine!.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101101com4.html
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