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Civil Service Commission Vs. Peter E. Nierras

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Petitioner, versus PETER E. NIERRAS, Respondent.

G.R. No. 165121 | 2008-02-14

DECISION


QUISUMBING, J.:

This is a petition for review on certiorari seeking to annul and set aside the partially amended Decision[1] dated July 27, 2004 rendered by the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 64122, which reduced to six months without pay the penalty of dismissal imposed on Nierras by the Civil Service Commission (CSC).

The dramatis personae in this case are complainant Olga C. Oña, a secretary of the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), and respondent Peter E. Nierras, the Acting General Manager of the Metro Carigara Water District, Leyte.

The antecedent facts of the case are as follows:

On July 17,...