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Kilosbayan, Et Al. Vs. Manuel L. Morato, Et Al. [SEPARATE OPINION, FELICIANO, J., dissenting]

KILOSBAYAN, INCORPORATED, JOVITO R. SALONGA, CIRILO A. RIGOS, ERME CAMBA, EMILIO C. CAPULONG, JR., JOSE T. APOLO, EPHRAIM TENDERO, FERNANDO SANTIAGO, JOSE ABCEDE, CHRISTINE TAN, RAFAEL G. FERNANDO, RAOUL V. VICTORINO, JOSE CUNANAN, QUINTIN S. DOROMAL, SEN. FREDDIE WEBB, SEN. WIGBERTO TANADA, REP. JOKER P. ARROYO, petitioners, vs. MANUEL L. MORATO, in his capacity as Chairman of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, and the PHILIPPINE GAMING MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, respondents. [SEPARATE OPINION, FELICIANO, J., dissenting]

G.R. No. 118910 | 1995-07-17

FELICIANO, J., dissenting:

I find myself regretfully quite unable to join the majority opinion written by my distinguished brother in the Court, Mendoza, J. 

I join the penetrating dissenting opinions written by my esteemed brothers Regalado and Davide, Jr., JJ. In respect of the matter of locus standi, I would also reiterate the concurring opinion I wrote on that subject in the first Kilosbayan case. 1 All the factors which, to my mind, pressed for recognition of locus standi on the part of petitioners in the first Kilosbayan case, still exist and demand, with equal weight and insistence, such recognition in the present or second...