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Bulletin Publishing Corp. vs. Edilberto Noel

BULLETIN PUBLISHING CORPORATION, represented by its President, MARTIN ISIDRO and its Publisher, APOLONIO BATALLA, BEN F. RODRIGUEZ, FRED J. REYES, JAMIL MAIDAN FLORES and JOHN DOES, petitioners, vs. HON. JUDGE EDILBERTO NOEL, in his capacity as Presiding Judge of Branch VIII of the Regional Trial Court, 12th Judicial Region with station in Marawi City, ATTY. DIMATIMPOS MINDALANO, ATTY. MANGORSI A. MINDALANO, SHIEK EDRES MINDALANO, SULTAN GUINAR MINDALANO, FAROUK CALIPA MINDALANO, SULTAN MAHADI MINDALANO, SULTAN KHALID MINDALANO, SULTAN MA-AMOR MINDALANO, DR. TAHER MINDALANO, DATU MAGUIDALA MINDALANO, SOBAIDA MAGUMPARA VDA. DE MINDALANO, RAISHA MINDALANO MANDANGAN, ATTY. KIMAL M. SALACOP, DATU KAMAR M. MINDALANO, MAYOR RASLANI MINDALANO, VICE-MAYOR ALIDADI A. MINDALANO, ENG. RASHDI A. MINDALANO, MRS. PAISHA MINDALANO AGUAM, DATU AZIS MINDALANO AGUAM, MRS. MOOMINA MINDALANO OMAR, DATU AMINOLA MINDALANO OMAR, in behalf of the Mindalano Clan, respondents.

G.R. No. 76565 | 1988-11-09

D E C I S I O N


FELICIANO, J.:

On 3 July 1986, the twenty-one (21) private respondents (plaintiffs below), claiming to be the nearest relatives of the late Amir Mindalano, suing on their own behalf and on behalf of the entire Mindalano clan of Mindanao, filed a Complaint 1 for damages (docketed as Civil Case No. 81-86) before Branch 8 of the Regional Trial Court of Marawi City charging petitioners with libel. Private respondents' action was anchored on a feature article written by Jamil Maidan Flores entitled "A Changing of the Guard," which appeared in the 22 June 1986 issue of Philippine Panorama, a publication of petitioner Bulletin...