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Rosalina Buan, etal. Vs. Gemiliano C. Lopez, Jr.

ROSALINA BUAN, RODOLFO TOLENTINO, TOMAS MERCADO, CECILIA MORALES, LIZA OCAMPO, Quiapo Church Vendors, for themselves and all others similarly situated as themselves, petitioners, vs. OFFICER-IN-CHARGE GEMILIANO C. LOPEZ, JR., OFFICE OF THE MAYOR OF MANILA, respondent.

G.R. No. L-75349 | 1986-10-13

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J:

On August 5, 1986 petitioners instituted in this Court a special civil action for prohibition to the end that respondent Gemiliano C. Lopez, Jr., acting as Mayor of the City of Manila, be \"perpetually prohibited from arbitrarily, whimsically and capriciously revoking or cancelling . . . their licenses or permits (as hawkers or street vendors) and threatening the physical demolition of their respective business stalls in the places specified in such licenses or permits. 1 They also sought a temporary restraining order in view of Mayor Lopez\' actual threats of physical demolition of their respective small...