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By JOMAR CANLAS, Reporter
THE Supreme Court will inventory
all temporary restraining orders issued by the Court of Appeals from
January determine if some justices and court employees had
“sold” the TROs.
The inventory was revealed by
Chief Justice Reynato Puno in an interview with The Manila Times.
Supreme Court Judicial Reform
Program Administrator Evelyn Dumdum has asked Elisa Pilar-Longalong,
the Court of Appeals’ clerk of court, to audit the TROs issued
beginning last January.
Longalong informed the Supreme
Court there were 68 TROs issued during the period.
Based on the records submitted by
the clerks of court of the CA’s 23 divisions, the biggest number
of TROs was issued by Associate Justice Romeo Barza when he was
still assigned in Cebu. Barza has since been stationed in Manila.
In the report of Mercedita G.
Dadole-Ignacio, Barza issued five TROs from January 18 to February
26.
The orders involve the cases of
Sun Life of Canada v. National Labor Relations Commission, Armed
Forces of the Phils. v. Yolanda Lauron, Doloreich A. Dumaluan v.
Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, Assumption Iloilo v. Fedy T.
Bhuiyan and O.G. Holdings Corp. v. Environmental Management Bureau.
CA Presiding Justice Ruben Reyes
sees nothing wrong in issuing TROs, but said it is different when
there is money involved.
Puno has summoned the chairmen of
the 17 divisions of the CA and ordered them to solve the growing
corruption in the Court.
The Times has learned that
political and administrative cases decided by the Office of the
Ombudsman were a primary source of corruption in the CA.
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