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Bermudez vs Torres 311 SCRA 733

OSCAR BERMUDEZ, ARTURO A. LLOBRERA and CLAUDIO L. DAYAON, petitioners, vs. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY RUBEN TORRES, BUDGET SECRETARY SALVADOR ENRIQUEZ, JR., JUSTICE SECRETARY TEOFISTO GUINGONA, JR., and ATTY. CONRADO QUIAOIT, respondents.

G.R. No. 131429 | 1999-08-04

D E C I S I O N 
 
VITUG, J.: 
 
The validity and legality of the appointment of respondent Conrado Quiaoit to the post of Provincial Prosecutor of Tarlac by then President Fidel V. Ramos is assailed in this petition for review on certiorari on a pure question of law which prays for the reversal of the Order,[1] dated 20 October 1997, of the Regional Trial Court (Branch 63) of Tarlac, Tarlac, dismissing the petition for prohibition and/or injunction and mandamus, with a prayer for the issuance of a writ of injunction/temporary restraining order, instituted by herein petitioners. 
 
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