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Sunrise Garden vs. CA and First Alliance Real Estate

SUNRISE GARDEN CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. COURT OF APPEALS AND FIRST ALLIANCE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, INC., RESPONDENTS. [G.R. No. 158967] REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, REPRESENTED BY ANTIPOLO CITY, PETITIONER, VS. COURT OF APPEALS AND FIRST ALLIANCE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, INC., RESPONDENT. [G.R. No. 160726] REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, REPRESENTED BY ANTIPOLO CITY, PETITIONER, VS. FIRST ALLIANCE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, INC., RESPONDENT. [G.R. No. 160778] SUNRISE GARDEN CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. FIRST ALLIANCE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, INC., RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 158836 | 2015-09-30

DECISION
 
LEONEN, J.:
 
A person who is not a party in the main action cannot be the subject of the ancillary writ of preliminary injunction. These consolidated petitions arose out of a pending case between Sunrise Garden Corporation and Hardrock Aggregates, Inc. First Alliance Real Estate Development, Inc. was not a party to that case.

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