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Sec of Education, CSC, et al vs CA, Abenis, et al

THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORTS, and the CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS; ABENIS, ERLINDA; ACHACON, JULIAN; ACOL, SOCORRO; AFAN, MA. ANA; AGULTO, ANGELITA; ALE, JANET; ALETA, NORMA; ALFISAR, VILMA; ALPINO, ANITA; AMAROSO, MILANDRO; AMBROSIO, CAINA; ANAZARIO, RICARDO; ANDRES, MILAGROS; ATENDIDO, ROSITA; ANTONIO, MARCELLANA; APOSTOL, HERMINIA; ARCEO, RAON; ARCILLA, ROSALINDA; ARGAMOZA, ROGELIA; ARRIAGA, EULALIA; ASUNCION, CORAZON; BALATBAT, ANITA; BANAWA, MARIA; BANGALISAN, MA. PAZ; BANIGUED, ZENAIDA; BARCELON, TEOFILO; BARTOLOME, DIVINA; BARTOLOME, PURITA; BATERNA, LUZ; BUSTILLOS, JOSE; CARANDANG, SOFIA; CARPIO, REMEDIOS; CAYTON, LUCILA; CERDENA, ZENAIDA; CLEMENTE, PROSPERINA; CONSTANTINO, VIVIEN; CRUZ, LUISA DELA; DABANDAN, ILUMINADA; DAVID, ENCARNACION; DAVID, VERONICA; DAYNITA, MA. BEATA; DAYRIT, VILLAFLOR; DECELLA, ROLANDO; DEDACE, ANGELITO; DE GUZMAN, VIRGINIA; DELANTOR, TERESITA; DE LUNA, FELICITAS; DE PEDRO, MARCELINA; DELA PAZ, ROSALINDA; DIAZ, IRENE; DIAZ, ROSARIO; DIMACALI, ROSARIA; DIONISIO, WILLIAM; DIZON, NENITA; DOLORES, CYNTHIA; DOMANTAY, FLORENCIA; DOMINGO, DIVINA; ECHALAS, TERESITA; ENRIQUEZ, LILIAN; ENRIQUEZ, LORNA; ERNI, LYDIA; ESPINA, ERLINDA; ESPINOZA, GLORIA; ESPIRITU, ALFREDO; ESPIRITU, LUZ; ESPIRITU, PETRONILA; ESQUERRA, LUZVIMINDA; ESTRADA, ELSA; ESTRADA, MARILYN; ESTRADA, VITA; EUGENIO, ELEANOR; EUGENIO, TERESA; EUSTAQUIO, ISABELITA; FARINAS, LITA; FELIX, EMELITA; FERIA, EVA; FIEDACAN, EMILIE; FUERTES, ARSENIA; HAGOS, JOSE; HALOG, ESTRELLA; HAMID, EDELWISSA; IBLOQUIN, ROMEO; IDOS, REBECCA; JOLOC, CHARITA; KIMPO, AMELIA; LABIRAN, MARINA; LAPUT, ESTELA; LAYOSO, BEN; LEON, JULITA DE; LIWAG, MILAGROS; MADEJA, WILFREDO; MALILAY, SEVERA; MANUBA, ISABELA; MARTINEZ, LIBERTAD; MEJIA, TERESITA; NATIVIDAD, EVELYN; ORDINARIO, DOLORES; ORTALIZA, JUAN; PACLEB, VICTORIA; PAGDANGANAN, GREGORIA; PALISOC, JOSEFINA; PAREJA, ADELINA; PASTRANA, MARCOSA; PELAYO, LUCITA; PROTON, JULITA; RAMOS, BELEN; RAMONES, CARMELITA; RED, ERLINDA; REJAN0, VIOLETA; REVILLA, LOURDES; RIVER, ALEX; RODRIN, VIOLETA; RONGCALES, SOLEDAD; ROQUE, MILAGROS; ROXAS, LOURDES; ROYOLA, ELINITA; RUTGER, ANGEL; SACDAL, NATIVDAD; SADANG, MARCELA; SADIE, REBECCA; SANCHEZ, FE; SANCHEZ, OFELIA; SANCHEZ, REBECCA; SANDOGON, YOLANDA; SANTOS, ASUCENA; SANTOS, CYNTHIA; SANTOS, JESSIEBEL; SANTOS, MA. VICTORIA; SANTOS, ROSA; SANTOS, TRINIDAD; SAN GABRIEL, ASUNCION; SIENNA, ARTHUR; SISALIN, MA. LINDA; SISON, NORMA; SORIANO, EVA; SORIANO, MARINA; SOSA, ARISTON; STO. DOMINGO, MARILYN; SUAN, ELVIRA; SUNSA, EDITH; SY, BERNADETTE; TABIANDO, HELEN; TALLION, LETICIA; TAN, EVANGELINE; TAN, NENITA; TAVIOS, BLANCHE; TECSON, ESPERANZA; TEODORO, JOSEFINA; TERRADO, TORIBIO; TOGUENO, NORMA; TOLENTINO, LETICIA; TRINIDAD, HEREDITA; UMALI, SERGIA; VALENCIA, PRISCA; VARGAS, LOURDES; VELASCO, LOLITA; VELASCO, MILAGROS; VELASQUEZ, MARIA; VIADOR, PENNSYLVANIA; VICENTE, SHIRLEY; VILLANUEVA, DANIEL; VILLANUEVA, NELIA; VILLAPANDO, AMPARO; VILLARIN, ARLENE; VILLARUEL, ANECITA; VILLALBA, FRANCIA; VISTAN, AMELIA; VIVAS, EDITH; YANZA, CORAZON; YAO, ANA MARIA; YERO, ELENA; YUMUL ERLINDA; and ZAGALA, DALISAY, respondents.

G.R. No. 128559 | 2000-10-04

D E C I S I O N

PURISIMA, J.:

At bar are consolidated petitions for review on certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court assailing the Decision, dated February 26, 1997, of the Court of Appeals[1] in CA-G.R. SP No. 39722.

Petitioners are public school teachers from various schools in the National Capital Region who incurred unauthorized absences in connection with or in furtherance of their then on-going "mass action" held sometime in September 1990. Confronted with the strike which threatened to disrupt classes in public schools, former Secretary Isidro Cariño of the Department of Education Culture and Sports (DECS) issued a...