DOCTRINE: Press freedom may be identified with the liberty to discuss publicly and truthfully any matter of public concern without censorship or punishment. The general principle is that freedom of expression is the rule and restrictions the exemption. The power to exercise prior restraint is not to be presumed‚ rather the presumption is against its validity. FACTS: * The principal petitioner is Jose Antonio U. Gonzalez‚ President of the Malaya Films. * The respondent is the Board
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[G.R. No. 117103. January 21‚ 1999] Spouses RENATO S. ONG and FRANCIA N. ONG‚ Petitioners‚ v. COURT OF APPEALS‚ INLAND TRAILWAYS‚ INC. and PHILTRANCO SERVICE ENTERPRISE‚ INC.‚Respondents. FACTS: Petitioners were paying passengers of Inland Bus (owned and operated by Inland Trailways under a Lease Agreement with Philtranco)‚ iIt was driven by Calvin Coronel. Around 3:50 a.m. on February 9‚ 1987‚ when the Inland bus slowed down to avoid a stalled cargo truck in Tiaong‚ Quezon‚ it was bumped from
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EASTERN SHIPPING LINES‚ INC.‚ vs. POEA (166 SCRA 533‚ G.R. No. 76633‚ October 18‚ 1988) FACTS: In this case‚ there was a certain Vitaliano Saco was Chief Officer of the M/V Eastern Polaris when he was killed in an accident in Tokyo‚ Japan on March 15‚ 1985. His widow sued for damages under Executive Order No. 797 and Memorandum Circular No. 2 of the POEA. The petitioner‚ as owner of the vessel‚ argued that the complaint was cognizable not by the POEA but by the Social Security System and should
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OBLICON: EXTINGUISHMENT OF OBLIGATIONs Payment or Performance 1. Montecillo vs. Reynes FACTS: Respondents Ignacia Reynes and Spouses Abucay filed on June 20‚ 1984 a complaint for Declaration of Nullity and Quieting of Title against petitioner Rido Montecillo. Reynes asserted that she is the owner of a lot situated in Mabolo‚ Cebu City containing an area of 448 square meters. In 1981‚ Reynes sold 185 square meters of the Mabolo Lot to the Abucay Spouses who built a residential house on the lot they
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DOLORES B. GUICO‚ ET AL.‚ plaintiffs and appellants vs. PABLO G. BAUTISTA‚ ET. AL.‚ defendants and appellees. Facts: • The petitioner in this case filed a case of partition despite the existence of debts of the decedent. Issue: The petitioner urges that their action for partition and liquidation may be maintained‚ notwithstanding that there are pending obligations of the estate‚ subject to the taking of adequate measures either for the payment or the security of its creditors. Is
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READER’S DIGEST CASE ANALYSIS By Bobby Renner March 6‚ 2013 Overview: This case analysis is about Readers Digest’s recent struggle to succeed in business. Reader’s digest was the number one consumer of magazines in the US and has struggle in the passed decade after the invention of Internet. They have recently hired a new CEO Mary Burner to help restructure RDA. Issues: * INTERNET- The internet is RDA’s biggest competitor. It offers information of all kinds free of charge to everyone
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property‚ trial courts may provisionally resolve the issue of ownership for the sole purpose of determining the issue of possession. Trial courts must delve into and weigh the evidence of the parties in order to rule on the right of possession. In this case‚ the mere plea of title over the disputed land by Felix cannot be used as a sound basis for dismissing an action for recovery of possession. The testimony of their mother in the action for specific performance proceeding is given weight to
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Alalayan vs. NAPOCOR Alalayan and the Philippine Power and Development Company assails the power vested in NAPOCOR that "in any contract for the supply of electric power to a franchise holder‚" receiving at least 50% of its electric power and energy from it to require as a condition that such franchise holder "shall not realize a net profit of more than twelve percent annually of its investments plus two-month operating expenses." Also it could “renew all existing contracts with franchise holders
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C.A. No. 299 March 18‚ 1946 FELIX ADAN‚ plaintiff-appellant‚ vs. AGAPITO CASILI and VICTORIA ADAN‚ defendants-appellees. OZAETA‚ J.: The plaintiff Felix Adan commenced this action in the Court of First Instance of Camarines Sur against his sister Victoria Adan and the latter’s husband‚ Agapito Casili‚ to secure the judicial partition of the estate left by their deceased mother‚ Simplicia Nepomuceno‚ alleged to consist of six parcels of land which are specifically described in
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and March 19‚ 1992 of the Regional Trial Court‚ Branch 90‚ of Quezon City granting the issuance of a writ of preliminary injunction. The facts of the case are as follows: On December 20‚ 1991‚ petitioner Elidad C. Kho filed a complaint for injunction and damages with a prayer for the issuance of a writ of preliminary injunction‚ docketed as Civil Case No. Q-91-10926‚ against the respondents Summerville General Merchandising and Company (Summerville‚ for brevity) and Ang Tiam Chay. The petitioner’s
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