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De La Cruz vs Court of Appeals 305 SCRA 303

LUZVIMINDA DE LA CRUZ, MERCY DE LEON, TERESITA EUGENIO, CORAZON GOMEZ, ELENA GUEVARRA, ROSALINA JINGCO, LOIDA IGNACIO, and EMERITA PIZARRO, petitioners vs., COURT OF APPEALS, CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION and THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION , CULTURE AND SPORTS, respondents.

G.R. No. 126183 | 1999-03-25

D E C I S I O N 
 
BELLOSILLO, J.: 
 
These consolidated petitions 1 are among several petitions filed with this Court arising from the much-publicized public school teachers' mass actions of September/October 1990. 
 
Petitioners are public school teachers from various schools in Metro Manila. who were simultaneously charged, preventively suspended, and eventually dismissed in October 1990 by then Secretary Isidro D. Carinio of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS), in decisions issued by him which uniformly read - 
 
This is a motu-propio administrative complaint separately filed...