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Case Digest: Bondoc v. Atty. Licudine, A.C. No. 12768, June 23, 2020
Summary: A lawyer failed to file his client’s civil case and refused to return his client’s money despite multiple demands. FACTS: Felicitas Bondoc, a resident of Canada, was looking for a lawyer in the Philippines to handle her marriage annulment case against her husband. A common friend introduced Atty. Licudine from Baguio City to her….
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Case Digest: Lampas-Peralta v. Ramon, A.C. No. 12415, March 5, 2019
Summary: A lawyer manufactured a fake decision and bragged that she could influence the Associate Justices of the Court of Appeals for a favorable ruling. Facts: This administrative complaint against Atty. Ramon stemmed from the joint-complaint filed by the three CA justices. Atty. Ramon allegedly boasted to a certain Maria Rossan De Jesus that she…
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Case Digest: Montero v. Times Transportation Co., Inc., G.R. No. 190828, March 16, 2015
Related Doctrine: The action instituted to contest the legality of one’s dismissal from employment constitutes an action predicated upon an injury to the rights of the plaintiff and must be brought within four years. However, although the commencement of a civil action stops the running of the statute of prescription or limitations, its dismissal or…
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Case Digest: Fleischer v. Botica Nolasco, G. R. No. 23241, March 14, 1925
Related Doctrine: Under a statute authorizing by-laws for the transfer of stock, a corporation can do no more than prescribe a general mode of transfer on the corporation books and cannot justify a restriction upon the right of sale. Facts: Manuel Gonzalez was the original owner of the five shares of stock of the Botica…
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Case Digest: Albert v. University Publishing, Co., G.R. No. L-19118, January 30, 1965 [13 SCRA 84]
Related Doctrine: A person acting or purporting to act on behalf of a corporation that has no valid existence assumes such privileges and obligations and becomes personally liable for contracts entered into or for other acts performed as such agent. Facts: University Publishing Co. (UPC), through Jose Aruego, entered into a contract with Mariano Albert whereby UPC agreed…
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Doctrine of Constitutional Supremacy
The doctrine of Constitutional Supremacy recognizes that the Constitution is the fundamental, paramount, and supreme law of the nation, and is deemed written in every statute and contract.