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Garcia vs. Molina

WINSTON F. GARCIA, IN HIS CAPACITY AS PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER OF THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (GSIS), Petitioner, vs. MARIO I. MOLINA, Respondent Present: SERENO, CJ, LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, BERSAMIN, MARIO I. MOLINA, PEREZ, and PERLAS-BERNABE, JJ

G .R. No. 165223 | 2016-01-11

DECISION
 
BERSAMIN, J.:
 
For review is the decision promulgated on April 29, 2004,1 whereby the Court of Appeals (CA) nullified the Memorandum dated September 8, 2003 by which the petitioner, in his capacity as the President of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), had charged the respondent, an Attorney V in the Litigation Department of the Legal Service Group of the GSIS, with grave misconduct and preventively suspended him for 60 days.
 
Antecedents

In his affidavit, Elino F. Caretero pointed to the respondent as the person who had handed to him on August 26, 2003 the letter entitled Is It True supposedly written by...