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Leonila Garcia-Rueda vs. Remedios Amor, Raul Arnau, Abelardo Aportadera, Jr. etc.

LEONILA GARCIA-RUEDA, petitioner, vs. REMEDIOS A. AMOR, * RAUL R. ARNAU, ABELARDO L. APORTADERA, JR., FRANCISCO A. VILLA, ** all of the Office of the Ombudsman, and LEONCIA R. DIMAGIBA, Assistant City Prosecutor, Manila, respondents.

G.R. No. 116938 | 2001-09-20

D E C I S I O N

PARDO, J.:

The Case

The case is a petition for certiorari[1] to annul and set aside the resolution of the Ombudsman dismissing the complaint for violation of R. A. No. 3019, Sec. 3 [e], against respondent assistant city prosecutor Leoncia R. Dimagiba, for lack of evidence showing that complainant suffered undue injury through manifest partiality and evident bad faith of the respondent public officials.[2]

The Facts

On 19 November 1991, petitioner's husband, Engr. Florencio V. Rueda, Jr., 32 years old, underwent an operation at the Santo Tomas University Hospital, Sampaloc, Manila for the removal of a stone blocking his ureter....