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Evan Calleja vs Judge Rafael Santelicec, RTC Branch2 Legaspi City

EVAN B. CALLEJA, complainant, vs. JUDGE RAFAEL P. SANTELICES, Regional Trial Court, Branch 2, Legaspi City, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-99-1443 | 2000-03-14

R E S O L U T I O N

VITUG, J.:

In a sworn letter-complaint, dated 03 December 1997, complainant Evan B. Calleja charged Judge Rafael B. Santelices of the Regional Trial Court of Legaspi City, Branch 2, with manifest partiality and gross ignorance of the law relative to his actuations in Civil Case No. 9441 ("Mayon International Hotel, Inc. vs. Albay Electric Cooperative, Inc., Edgardo San Pablo and Evan B. Calleja") for damages, with prayer for temporary restraining order and/or preliminary mandatory injunction; he averred that -

"a. During the hearing on October 17, 1997 the plaintiff made certain admissions which conclusively prove...