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Indigenous People (IP) and Moro leaders went to the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday to file the 26th petition against Republic Act 1147, better...

FOUR MORE lawsuits have been filed questioning the validity of the government’s expanded law against terror at the Supreme Court.

A RETIRED magistrate and a former ombudsman have asked the Supreme Court to stop the government from enforcing its expanded law against terror, joining a slew of voices against the measure that they said could be used to stifle dissent and violate human rights.

THE Supreme Court has given the government 10 days to comment on four lawsuits seeking to stop it from enforcing an expanded law against terrorism that critics said allows the state to stifle dissent.

THE Philippine government freed more than 40,000 prisoners during a 15-week lockdown amid the threat of a coronavirus outbreak in one of the world’s most cramped prisons.

THE SUPREME COURT has given the government 10 days to comment on four lawsuits seeking to stop it from enforcing an expanded law against terrorism that critics said allows the state to stifle dissent.

THE Supreme Court is set to deliberate on July 13 the petition of ABS-CBN Corp. seeking to stop the implementation of the order by the National Telecommunications Commission which directed the media company to go off-air on May 5.

THE Supreme Court said that 22,522 inmates have been released through videoconferencing hearings.

ALL judicial courts will be in “full operation” starting June 1, following the easing of lockdown restrictions in most parts of the country.

THE Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the petition of ABS-CBN Corp. for a temporary restraining order against the cease-and-desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) against the network, forcing it to stop airing after its legislative franchise expired.

THE Supreme Court (SC) on Friday said that courts in areas under general community quarantine (GCQ) will reopen starting May 18 and will continue acting on pending cases during this period.

A LAW student from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Legazpi City topped last year’s bar exams, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday.

THE Supreme Court has extended the effectivity of COVID-19-related orders after President Rodrigo R. Duterte extended by two more weeks the Luzon-wide lockdown. “We will...

THE SUPREME COURT (SC) approved new rules on the liquidation of closed banks which will take effect on April 16.

ALL COURTS nationwide, from the Supreme Court down to the first level courts, will be “physically closed” to all court users starting March 23 due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

THE Supreme Court (SC) has ordered courts in Metro Manila to operate using skeletal staff from March 15 to April 12 after President Rodrigo R. Duterte declared a lockdown in the capital and nearby cities.

PHILIPPINE senators on Monday asked the Supreme Court to issue jurisprudence on whether the Executive branch can unilaterally end a treaty that the chamber had concurred in.

THE Supreme Court (SC) maintained that it sticks to the facts and the law in coming up with a decision, following a call of a congressman to President Rodrigo R. Duterte to intervene in the case between the Razon-led MORE Power and Electric Corp. and Panay Electric Co. (PECO).

SINGLE-USE plastic products are now banned at the Supreme Court (SC) offices in line with the country’s waste management campaign.

ABS-CBN Corp. asked the Supreme Court (SC) to deny the petition of the state lawyer to issue a gag order to prohibit statements on the quo warranto case, claiming it is a violation of rights to free speech and free press.

THE son of a former communist leader has asked the Supreme Court to order the release of his father, whom the government had detained for murder.

CHIEF Justice Diosdado M. Peralta has required all justices of the Court of Appeals (CA), Sandiganbayan, and Court of Tax Appeals (CTA), as well as trial court judges, to submit to the Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ) copies of temporary restraining orders (TROs), status quo ante orders (SQAs), and writs of preliminary injunction (WPIs), and orders of voluntary inhibition which they have issued.

THE Supreme Court (SC) asked ABS-CBN Corp. and its unit ABS-CBN Convergence, Inc. to comment on the petition of the state’s top lawyer to cancel the Lopez-led network’s franchise, as lawmakers stepped in to assert their authority over franchises.

THE Supreme Court has rejected an opposition senator’s plea to stop President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s verbal tirades against her, saying he is immune from lawsuits, according to an October decision made public on Wednesday.

THE SUPREME Court has given judiciary employees directly affected by the Taal Volcano eruption five days of special emergency leave starting Jan. 13.

THE Supreme Court (SC) ordered Shangri-La Properties, Inc to pay BF Corp. up to P52.6 million over the construction of the first and second phases, and the car parking structure of the EDSA Plaza project n Mandaluyong City.

PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte has appointed a Court of Appeals Justice to the Supreme Court.

THE SUPREME Court has suspended work on Jan. 9 in consideration of the expected traffic congestion in Manila as Catholic devotees hold the annual procession of the Black Nazarene.

THE Supreme Court has stood by its ruling rejecting a plea to allow same-sex marriage in the country.

THE Supreme Court has designated 50 “judges-at-large” who will help other judges decide cases, in keeping with a law that seeks to decongest court dockets.

THE Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) has shortlisted six nominees for a vacancy in the Supreme Court.

THE Supreme Court has allowed live media coverage of the promulgation of a decade-old case involving the massacre of more than 50 people in Maguindanao province set for Dec. 19.

THE Supreme Court has started a help desk that will receive complaints from the public against judicial personnel, among other things.

THE Supreme Court has scheduled the 16^th Special Shari’a bar exams for Jan. 19 and 26 next year.

THE Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) has asked the Supreme Court to resolve a plea to consolidate cases on deaths attributed Dengvaxia vaccination into one family court.

THE Supreme Court has extended the deadline for a ruling on a decade-old case where more than 50 people were massacred in Maguindanao province, Chief Justice Diosdado M. Peralta said on Friday.

THE SUPREME Court (SC) targets the completion of the P2.8-billion Manila Hall of Justice by June 2022.

THE SUPREME Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) on Tuesday, has again deferred a decision on the election protest over the vice presidential post, instead ordering a release of the report on the initial result of recount of ballots.

THE Supreme Court (SC) on Friday has given convicted drug trafficker Mary Jane Veloso permission to testify against her recruiters by way of deposition in Indonesia. Veloso was arrested and convicted of smuggling drugs to Indonesia and is currently on death row there.

THE SUPREME Court (SC) has ruled that nurses working in government health institutions should receive higher basic pay.

VICE PRESIDENT Maria Leonor G. Robredo has asked the Supreme Court to give her a copy of the results of the ballot recount in three provinces where massive cheating allegedly took place in the 2016 elections.

THE SUPREME Court has deferred acting on the results of a ballot recount in connection with the 2016 electoral protest of former Senator Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. against Vice President Maria Leonor G. Robredo.

THE Supreme Court (SC) has ordered Panay Electric Co. to comment on a plea by Razon-led MORE Electric and Power Corp. to stop a Mandaluyong trial court from barring its takeover of Panay Electric’s assets.

THE Supreme Court has affirmed the indictment for corruption of former Makati City Mayor Elenita S. Binay over the purchase of P36.4 million of equipment for a Makati hospital in 2001.

THE father of a young activist from Quezon province has asked the Supreme Court to order the military to release his daughter, who has been detained without criminal charges.