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Friday, April 19, 2013

Komatsu Industries (Phils.), Inc. v. CA


Komatsu Industries (Phils.), Inc. v. CA
G.R. No. 127682 April 24, 1998
Regalado, J.

Issue:

                whether or not issuance of Minute Resolutions is valid under Section 14, Article VIII of the Constitution

Held:

                “Resolutions” are not “decisions” within the above constitutional requirements; they merely hold that the petition for review should not be entertained. And the petition to review the decision of the Court of Appeals is not a matter of right but of sound judicial discretion, hence there is no need to fully explain the Court’s denial since, for one thing, the facts and the law are already mentioned in the Court of Appeals’ decision.

                The constitutional mandate is applicable only in cases “submitted for decision,” i.e., given due course and after the filing of briefs or memoranda and/or other pleadings, but not where the petition is refused due course, with the resolution therefor stating the legal basis thereof. Thus, when the Supreme Court, after deliberating on a petition and subsequent pleadings, decides to deny due course to the petition and states that the questions raised are factual or there is no reversible error in the respondent court’s decision, there is sufficient compliance with the constitutional requirement.

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