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Atty. Oliver O. Lozano and Atty. Evangeline J. Lozano-Endriano Vs. Speaker Prospero C. Nograles, Representative, Majority, House of Representatives

ATTY. OLIVER O. LOZANO and ATTY. EVANGELINE J. LOZANO-ENDRIANO, Petitioners,versus SPEAKER PROSPERO C. NOGRALES, Representative, Majority, House of Representatives, Respondent.

G.R. No. 187883 | 2009-06-16

R E S O L U T I O N


PUNO, C.J.:

This Court, so long as the fundamentals of republicanism continue to guide it, shall not shirk its bounden duty to wield its judicial power to settle "actual controversies involving rights which are legally demandable and enforceable, and to determine whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to a lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part of any branch or instrumentality of the government."[1] Be that as it may, no amount of exigency can make this Court exercise a power where it is not proper.

The two petitions, filed by their respective petitioners in their capacities as...