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Leonor Magdangal, etal. Vs. City of Olongapo, etal.

LEONOR MAGDANGAL, MARIA PENAFLORIDA, PERLA MAGBAG, GUILLERMO CIRICO, ESTELITA SABINIANO, VIVIAN CARLOS, GERTRUDIS TRAPSI, LOLITA BONGALA, ERLINDA PENAFLORIDA, EUFROSINA TONGCO, ASUNCION BONIFACIO, NATIVIDAD VALDEZ, CECILIA MAGBAG, AGRIPINA SAROMO, MIKE MAGDANGAL, JUSTINA LALUAN, ANTONIO BUNGALBAL, PAZ IDANAN, NOEL IDANAN, MARIA TIANIA, CARLITO BABIA, NORMITA NOVALTA, RAFAEL HERRERA, CYNTHIA CAPENIA, CRISPIN EVANGELISTA, and ANDRES REYES, petitioners, vs. CITY OF OLONGAPO, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES AND/OR DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF LANDS, THE REGISTRY OF DEEDS OF OLONGAPO CITY and HON. SOLICITOR GENERAL, respondents.

G.R. No. 83828 | 1989-11-16

R E S O L U T I O N


CORTES, J.:

Assailed in this petition for prohibition is the constitutionality of Batas Pambansa Blg. 875, which excluded from the National Park Reservation in Olongapo City, a certain portion of the land embraced therein known as Lot 21 and ceded the ownership and possession thereof to the government of Olongapo City to be used exclusively for a cultural, trade and tourism center site.

This is not the first time the controversy was brought to this Court by petitioners, who had built on Lot 21 and who had incorporated themselves into the "Pag-asa Lot Owners Association, Inc." In G.R. No. 62784, entitled "Pag-asa Lot...