The SM Group has prevailed in cases filed against the retail and property development conglomerate by the environmental organization Cordillera Global Network in connection with its tree-cutting and mall expansion activities in Baguio.

In a decision promulgated December 12, 2014, the Court of Appeals (CA) Special Ninth Division dismissed all cases filed against SM Group in cutting 182 pine and alnus trees and replanting them elsewhere to give way to the expansion of its SM City Baguio mall and building of SM Sky Park.

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