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Salvacion Villanueva, et al. Vs. Palawan Council for Sustainable Development, etc., et al.

SALVA CION VILLANUEVA, TEOFILO TREDEZ, DONALD BUNDAC, DANNY CABIGUEN, GREGORIO DELGADO, and BILLY BUN GAR, Petitioners, VS. PALA WAN COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, represented by Executive Director ROMEO DORADO, and PATRICIA LOUISE MINING AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, represented by Engineer FERNANDO ESGUERRA, Respondents

G.R. No. 178347 | 2013-02-25



SECOND DIVISION

DECISION 

DEL CASTILLO, J.:

"The writ of certiorari is an extraordinary remedy that the Court issues only under closely defined grounds and procedures that litigants and their lawyers must scrupulously observe."1

This is a Petition for Review2 on Certiorari of the May 7, 2007 Order3 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Palawan and Puerto Princesa City, Branch 47, which dismissed petitioners’ Petition for Certiorari and Mandamus4 on the ground of lack of jurisdiction. The fallo of the assailed Order reads: 

WHEREFORE, premises considered, finding merit in the motion to dismiss, the...