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Gualberto J. De La Llana, et al. Vs. Manuel Alba, et al. [SEPARATE OPINION, AQUINO, J., concurring]

GUALBERTO J. DE LA LLANA, Presiding Judge, Branch II of the City Court of Olongapo, ESTANISLAO L. CESA, JR., FIDELA Y. VARGAS, BENJAMIN C. ESCOLANGO, JUANITO C. ATIENZA, MANUEL REYES ROSAPAPAN, JR., VIRGILIO E. ACIERTO, and PORFIRIO AGUILLON AGUILA, petitioners vs. MANUEL ALBA, Minister of Budget, FRANCISCO TANTUITCO, Chairman, Commission on Audit, and RICARDO PUNO, Minister of Justice, respondents. [SEPARATE OPINION, AQUINO, J., concurring]

G.R. No. 57883 | 1982-03-12

AQUINO, J., concurring:

I concur in the result. The petitioners filed this petition for declaratory relief and prohibition "to declare the Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980 (Batas Pambansa Blg. 129) unconstitutional." 

The petition should have been dismissed outright because this Court has no jurisdiction to grant declaratory relief and prohibition is not the proper remedy to test the constitutionality of the law. The petition is premature. No jurisdictional question is involved. 

There is no justiciable controversy wherein the constitutionality of the said law is in issue. It is presumed to be constitutional. The lawmaking body...