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RP vs. Medina, et al. [SEPARATE OPINION]

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. HON. ENRIQUE MEDINA, HON. GREGORIO PANGANIBAN, HON. JOSUE L. CADIAO, HON. FILOMENO KINTANAR, HON. PAZ VETO PLANAS, as Associate Commissioners of the Public Service Commission and MANILA ELECTRIC COMPANY, respon

G.R. No. L-32068/G.R. No. L-32083/G.R. No. L-32155 | 1971-10-04

CASTRO, J., concurring:

My concurrence is limited to the result reached by the majority of my brethren because of misgivings I entertain with respect to a number of adjective aspects of the cases at bar.

I am hard put to agree that there was no unseemly haste with which the hearings below were conducted and terminated. 
 
The nagging impression that abides with me after a conscientious perusal of the proceedings below is that Commissioner Enrique Medina was racing against time to terminate the hearings, because he had set, as the deadline for the handing down of the decision (of the division of the Commission which he headed), the...