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Scott vs. Ingiong, et al

HARRY STUART SCOTT, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE AMADO G. INCIONG, CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and WHITE EAGLE OVERSEAS OIL CO., INC., respondents.

G.R. No. L-38868 | 1975-12-29

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

To lend plausibility to this certiorari and prohibition suit, which challenges an order of Amado G. Inciong, Chairman of the National Labor Relations Commission, requiring a hearing officer of the former National Labor Relations Commission to conduct a hearing on the merits of a case and to prepare a decision within twenty days, it was alleged that it came too late, as there was a valid previous award or decision which had long since become final. It is in that sense then that there was an arbitrary exercise of power fitly characterized as capricious or whimsical and thus constituting a denial of due process....