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Prudencio M. Reyes, Jr. Vs. Simplicio C. Belisario and Emmanuel S. Malicdem

PRUDENCIO M. REYES, JR., Petitioner, versus SIMPLICIO C. BELISARIO and EMMANUEL S. MALICDEM, Respondents.

G.R. No. 154652 | 2009-08-14

D E C I S I O N


BRION, J.:

This petition for review on certiorari[1] challenges the Court of Appeals (CA) decision of November 27, 2001[2] and resolution of August 1, 2002[3] that commonly reversed the Office of the Ombudsman Decision of July 19, 2000.[4] The petitioner imputes error on the CA for entertaining the respondents' appeal of the Ombudsman's decision, and for the reversal that followed. He maintains that the Ombudsman's decision was final and unappealable under Section 7, Rule III of the Rules of Procedure of the Office of the Ombudsman (the Ombudsman Rules)[5] and the CA should not have entertained it on appeal.

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