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Blue Bar Coconut Philippines vs. Tantuico, Jr. as Acting Chairman of COA

BLUE BAR COCONUT PHILIPPINES; CAGAYAN DE ORO OIL CO; CENTRAL VEGETABLE OIL MANUFACTURING CO.; COCONUT OIL MANUFACTURING (PHIL.) INC.; GRANE EXPORT CORPORATION; IMPERIAL VEGETABLE OIL CO.; INTERNATIONAL OIL FACTORY; LEGASPI OIL CO., INC.; LIBERTY OIL FACTORY; LUCENA OIL FACTORY, INC., AND 14 OTHER CORPORATIONS, petitioners, vs. THE HONORABLE FRANCISCO S. TANTUICO, JR., Acting Chairman of the Commission on Audit; and DR. GREGORIO YU, Auditor of the Philippine Coconut Authority, respondents.

G.R. No. L-47051 | 1988-07-28

D E C I S I O N
 

GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

This is a petition for certiorari, prohibition and mandamus with preliminary mandatory injunction to annul certain actions of respondents, the then Acting Chairman of the Commission on Audit and the Auditor of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA); to prevent them from doing specified acts and to compel them to allow the payment by the PCA of the petitioners' subsidy claims.

On June 30, 1973, the then President of the Philippines issued Presidential Decree No. 232 creating a Philippine Coconut Authority, with a governing board of eleven members, which was later reduced to nine by Presidential...