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Board of Optometry vs Angel B. Colet

BOARD OF OPTOMETRY, represented by its Chairman, DR. PRIMITIVA Y. PEREZ-SISON, PROFESSIONAL REGULATION COMMISSION, represented by its Commissioner, HERMOGENES P. POBRE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, represented by its Secretary, DR. HILARION M. RAMIRO, BUREAU OF FOODS AND DRUGS, represented by its Director, DR. QUINTIN L. KINTANAR, DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT, represented by its Secretary, SALVADOR M. ENRIQUEZ, JR., and BUREAU OF HIGHER EDUCATION, represented by its Director, MONA D. VALISNO, petitioners, vs. HON. ANGEL B. COLET, Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 29, ACEBEDO OPTICAL COMPANY, INC., represented by its President and Chairman of the Board, MIGUEL P. ACEBEDO, OPTOMETRY PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES (OPAP), represented by its President, DR. MIRIAM F. LLAVE, CENEVIS OPTOMETRIST ASSOCIATION (COA), represented by its President, DR. ROBERTO RODIS, JR., ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM OPTOMETRIST (ACMO), represented by its President, DR. CYRIL CORALES, SOUTHERN MINDANAO OPTOMETRIST ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILS., INC. (SMOAP), represented by its President, DR. ELMER VILLAROSA, and REPUBLICA A. PANOL, No. 9 Gen. Malvar St., Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City, respondents.

G.R. No. 122241 | 1996-07-30

THIRD DIVISION
DECISION
 
DAVIDE, JR., J.:

Petitioners seek to annul and set aside for having been rendered with grave abuse of discretion the order of 25 August 1995 issued by public respondent Judge Angel V. Colet in Civil Case No. 95-74770 which granted a writ of preliminary injunction restraining, enjoining, and prohibiting the petitioners herein "from undertaking in any form of manner, the enforcement or implementation of the Revised Optometry Law [R.A. No. 8050] or any regulations or Code of Ethics issued thereunder."

The background facts are not disputed.

R.A. No. 8050,1 entitled "An Act Regulating the Practice of...