THE Court of Appeals (CA) junked the libel case filed by the current chairman of the Baguio Country Club’s executive committee against her siblings for allegedly making defamatory statements in a published book detailing their assets.
In a 14-page decision penned by Associate Justice Edwin Sorongon and concurred in by Associate Justices Hakim Abdulwahid and Marlene Gonzales-Sison, the CA’s Sixth Division granted the consolidated petitions for certiorari filed by Ramon Ilusorio, brother; Erlinda Ilusorio, mother, and Shereen Ilusorio, sister, assailing resolutions dated November 6, 2006 and October 27, 2008 of the Secretary of Justice which led to the filing of information for libel against them owing to the complaint filed by Sylvia Ilusorio-Yap, officer of the country club.
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