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Art Borjal and Maximo Soliven vs. Court of Appeals

ARTURO BORJAL a.k.a. ART BORJAL and MAXIMO SOLIVEN, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and FRANCISCO WENCESLAO, respondents.

G.R. No. 126466 | 1999-01-14

D E C I S I O N


"The question is not so much as who was aimed at as who was hit." (Pound, ., in Corrigan v. Bobbs-Merill Co., 228 N.Y. 58 [1920]).

BELLOSILLO, J. :

PERPETUALLY HAGRIDDEN as the public is about losing one of the most basic yet oft hotly contested freedoms of man, the issue of the right of free expression bestirs and presents itself time and again, in cyclic occurrence, to inveigle, any, challenge the courts to re-survey its ever shifting terrain, explore and furrow its heretofore uncharted moors and valleys and finally redefine the metes and bounds of its controversial domain. This, prominently, is one such case.

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