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NICASIO I. ALCANTARA vs COMMISSION ON THE SETTLEMENT OF LAND PROBLEMS, SECRETARY OF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES ANTONIO CERILLES, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES, ROLANDO PAGLANGAN, ET AL. / HEIRS OF DATU ABDUL S. PENDATUN, REP. BY DATU NASSER B. PENDATUN, AL HAJ., HEIRS OF SABAL MULA, and GAWAN CLAN, REP. BY TRIBAL CHIEFTAIN LORETO GAWAN, intervenors.

NICASIO I. ALCANTARA, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON THE SETTLEMENT OF LAND PROBLEMS, SECRETARY OF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES ANTONIO CERILLES, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES, ROLANDO PAGLANGAN, ET AL., respondents. / HEIRS OF DATU ABDUL S. PENDATUN, REP. BY DATU NASSER B. PENDATUN, AL HAJ., HEIRS OF SABAL MULA, and GAWAN CLAN, REP. BY TRIBAL CHIEFTAIN LORETO GAWAN, intervenors.

G.R. No. 145838 | 2001-07-20

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

This is a petition for review on certiorari assailing the Decision of the Court of Appeals dated June 22, 2000 in CA-G.R. SP No. 53159[1] and its Resolution dated October 16, 2000 denying petitioner's motion for reconsideration.

The facts of the case are as follows:

Sometime in 1993, petitioner Nicasio Alcantara was granted Forest Land Grazing Lease Agreement No. 542 (FLGLA No. 542) by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Under said FLGLA, Alcantara was allowed to lease Nine Hundred Twenty-Three (923) hectares of public forest land at Sitio Lanton, Barrio Apopong, General Santos City...