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Enrique T. Garcia vs. Board of Investments, etal.

CONGRESSMAN ENRIQUE T. GARCIA, Second District of Bataan, petitioner, vs. THE BOARD OF INVESTMENTS, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY, BATAAN PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION and PILIPINAS SHELL CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. 88637 | 1989-09-07

D E C I S I O N

GRINO-AQUINO, J.:

In this petition for certiorari and prohibition with a prayer for preliminary injunction, the petitioner, as congressman for the second district of Bataan, assails the approval by the Board of Investments (BOI) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) of the amended application for registration of the Bataan Petrochemical Corporation, which seeks to transfer the site of its petrochemical complex from Bataan, the original situs of choice, to the province of Batangas.

Since the case presents purely legal issues, and the subject of the controversy vitally affects the economic interests of the country which...