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Gonzales vs. Marcos, et al, 65 scra 624

RAMON A. GONZALES, petitioner, vs. IMELDA R. MARCOS, as Chairman of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Father HORACIO DE LA COSTA, I. P. SOLIONGCO, ERNESTO RUFINO, ANTONIO MADRIGAL, and ANDRES SORIANO, as Members thereof, respondents.

G.R. No. L-31685 | 1975-07-31

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

It was the novelty of the constitutional question raised, there being an imputation by petitioner Ramon A. Gonzales of an impermissible encroachment by the President of the Philippines on the legislative prerogative, that led this Tribunal to give due course to an appeal by certiorari from an order of dismissal by the Court of First Instance of Manila. 1 More specifically, the issue centered on the validity of the creation in Executive Order No. 30 of a trust for the benefit of the Filipino people under the name and style of the Cultural Center of the Philippines entrusted with the task to construct a national...