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By DUCKY PAREDES MALAYA ‘Those who can understand a source code enough to be able to spot where something is not quite right would have the capability and the know-how to create a source code themselves.’ CLEARLY, the former Commission on Elections (Comelec) made the wrong decision when it chose to purchase the Precinct-Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines. Consider the problems of warehousing the machines Read More …
Source: The Daily Tribune Erap fears Hocus PCOS, wants manual count for Manila race United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) senatorial candidate Richard “Dick” Gordon yesterday filed through his lawyers a Petition for Mandamus before the Supreme Court (SC) to compel the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to allow the political parties to examine and review the human readable source code, as mandated by law. At the same Read More …
By AMADO P. MACASAET MALAYA ‘The Court sits tight, comforted or shielded by the belief that it is right even when it is wrong.’ An accepted truism is that the Supreme Court is right even when it is wrong. Its final and executory decision entered in the Book of Judgment is part of the law of the land no matter who benefits, no matter who Read More …
By AMADO P. MACASAET MALAYA “Again it must be said that the Court voted on its best lights. But the voting shows the deep division in the Tribunal.” A President with a hardly changed high popularity rating in the middle of his term usually commands the respect of co-independent institutions like the Supreme Court. Apart from widening the poverty gap as a result of its Read More …
By Guy M. Guerrero On February 27 of this year, during arguments at a hearing in the U.S. Supreme Court, on Shelby v. Holder, a case concerning the Voting Rights Act , Justice Scalia, shocked the jam packed court audience with his comment that the Voting Rights Act was evidence of the “perpetuation of racial entitlement.” One would have to consult a thesaurus to find Read More …
By EFREN N. PADILLA GMA News The Diocese of Bacolod City in Negros Occidental, headed by Bishop Vicente Navarra, through its counsel Ralph Sarmiento has taken its fight against the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to the Supreme Court (SC). It is petitioning the high tribunal to permanently stop the removal of its oversized poster that violates the COMELEC’s regulation on campaign materials mounted on the Read More …
Committee created to study decentralization needs By EVANGELINE DE VERA MALAYA COLLEAGUES of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno have officially overturned a supposed en banc resolution, which created a new judicial office in the Visayas, for having been promulgated without the consent of the en banc. Sereno earlier came under fire from fellow justices for coming out with Administrative Order No. 175 creating the new Read More …
By Benjamin B. Pulta The Daily Tribune A minor victory of sorts was achieved by the petitioners against the Cybercrime Prevention Act when an indefinite extension was handed down yesterday by the Supreme Court (SC) on the four-month restraining order it had earlier issued suspending the implementation of the controversial Republic Act No. 10175 or Cybercrime law. At the end of yesterday’s en banc session, Read More …
But OSG assails takedown powers By EVANGELINE DE VERA MALAYA A SIMPLE “Like” or “Share” of a Facebook post, or a “Retweet” in Twitter, of a libelous statement is already an expression of an opinion, and this constitutes a violation of the controversial anti-cybercrime law, the government’s chief lawyer said yesterday. At the continuation of the oral arguments at the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Francis Read More …
By Rey E. Requejo Manila Standard Today Several senior justices of the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed with the arguments of the lawyers of the petitioners against Republic Act 10175, or the Cybercrime Prevention Act, over the infirmities of some of its provisions. However, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and Associate Justice Marvic Leonen questioned the lawyers over the new law and appeared to be Read More …