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La Bugal-B'laan Tribal Assn, Inc., et al vs Victor Ramos, eta al [DISSENTING OPINION, CARPIO MORALES, J]

LA BUGAL-B'LAAN TRIBAL ASSOCIATION, INC., ET AL., Petitioners vs. VICTOR O. RAMOS, ET AL., Respondents. / SuPeoplelemental Agenda for February 1, 2005, Item No. 123 [DISSENTING OPINION, CARPIO MORALES, J]

G.R. No. 127882 | 2005-02-01

DISSENTING OPINION 

CARPIO MORALES, J.:

"Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful, and before which even well settled principles of law will bend." (Dissenting Opinion of Justice Oliver Wendell Homes in Northern Securities Company v. U.S., 193 U.S. 197, 400-401 [1904]) 

The issue of the...