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Top Rate Construction & General Services, Inc., Vs. Paxton Development Corporation, et al

TOP RATE CONSTRUCTION & GENERAL SERVICES, INC., petitioner, vs. PAXTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND BAIKAL REALTY CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. 151081 | 2003-09-11

R E S O L U T I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

Forum shopping is committed by a party who institutes two or more suits in different courts, either simultaneously or successively, in order to ask the courts to rule on the same or related causes or to grant the same or substantially the same reliefs, on the supposition that one or the other court would make a favorable disposition or increase a party's chances of obtaining a favorable decision or action.[1] It is an act of malpractice for it trifles with the courts, abuses their processes, degrades the administration of justice and adds to the already congested court dockets.[2] What is critical is...