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Judge Martin Ocampo vs Sun-Star Publishing

JUDGE MARTIN A. OCAMPO, petitioner, vs. SUN-STAR PUBLISHING, INC., respondent.

G.R. No. 133575 | 2000-12-15

D E C I S I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

Before this Court is a Petition for Review on Certiorari seeking to set aside the April 20, 1998 Decision[1] of the Regional Trial Court of Cebu City, Branch 57, which dismissed petitioner's Complaint for Libel.

Petitioner is the presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court of Cebu City, Branch 7. He filed a Complaint[2] for Libel on account of two articles which appeared in the August 28, 1997 and August 30, 1997 issues of Sun-Star Daily, a provincial newspaper published and circulated by respondent in Cebu.

The August 28, 1997 article, which appeared on pages two (2) and twenty two (22) of the...