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PHILIPPINE GERIATRICS FOUNDATION, INC., ATTY. EDUARDO S. RODRIGUEZ, AND ATTY. VICENTE S. PULIDO vs. JUDGE LYDIA QUERUBIN LAYOSA, Presiding Judge, Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 12, Manila

PHILIPPINE GERIATRICS FOUNDATION, INC., ATTY. EDUARDO S. RODRIGUEZ, AND ATTY. VICENTE S. PULIDO, complainants, vs. JUDGE LYDIA QUERUBIN LAYOSA, Presiding Judge, Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 12, Manila, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-00-1249 | 2001-09-04

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This is an administrative complaint for gross ignorance of the law, gross misconduct, and grave abuse of discretion filed by the Philippine Geriatrics Foundation, Inc., and lawyers Eduardo S. Rodriguez and Vicente S. Pulido[1] against Judge Lydia Querubin Layosa, then presiding judge of Branch 12 of the Metropolitan Trial Court, Manila.[2] Complainants urge the Court to dismiss respondent judge from the service.

It appears that this complaint arose after respondent judge dismissed the complaint filed by PGF against one Ligaya Santos, docketed as Civil Case No. 150316-CV and entitled "Philippine Geriatrics...