THE SUPREME Court (SC) has affirmed the legality of several provisions of Republic Act (RA) 9257 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010 and RA 9442 or the Magna Carta for Disabled Persons, pertaining to discounts that drug stores wanted to remove.

This served as the valedictory ruling of Associate Justice Bienvenido Reyes, who hangs his robes and retires from the judiciary today, Friday, his 70th birthday.

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