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RP (PHRDC and CMDF) vs Hon Cesar Mangrobang, et al

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, (represented by the Philippine Human Resources Development Center and Construction Manpower Development Foundation), petitioner, vs. HON. CESAR A. MANGROBANG, Presiding Judge of RTC-Cavite, Branch 22, Imus, PHILIPPINE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY and HELENA Z. BENITEZ, respondents.

G.R. No. 130907 | 2001-11-27

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This petition for certiorari assails the Orders issued by Hon. Cesar A. Mangrobang, presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court of Imus, Cavite, Branch 22, in Civil Case No. 055-96. Petitioner seeks to annul and set aside the order[1] dated April 14, 1997, consolidating Civil Case No. 055-96 with Civil Case No. 1277-96, pending before the Regional Trial Court of Imus, Cavite, Branch 20; and the order[2] dated August 26, 1997 denying petitioner's motion for reconsideration.

The factual antecedents to this petition are as follows:

Private respondent Helena Z. Benitez, a former Senator, is the owner of two...