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Tranquilino Meris vs Judge Florentino Alumbres RTC 255

TRANQUILINO F. MERIS, complainant, vs. JUDGE FLORENTINO M. ALUMBRES, Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Las Pi?as City, Branch 255, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-00-1599 | 2001-11-15

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

Before us is a complaint[1] filed by a lawyer, Tranquilino F. Meris, charging Hon. Florentino M. Alumbres, presiding judge of Branch 255 of the Regional Trial Court of Las Piñas City, with inefficiency for failure to decide on time Civil Case No. 96-0256.

Complainant was counsel for the plaintiff in Civil Case No. 4533, entitled Joel Brillantes represented by his attorney-in-fact Tranquilino F. Meris v. Spouses Ponciano and Minerva Deang, an action for unlawful detainer originally filed before the Metropolitan Trial Court of Las Piñas City, Branch 79. On October 1, 1996, the MeTC rendered a...