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Noe Zarate vs Judge Balderian, etal

NOE CANGCO ZARATE, complainant, vs. Judge ISAURO M. BALDERIAN, Municipal Circuit Trial Court of Carmona-Gen. Mariano Alvarez, Cavite,1 [Subsequently of the Municipal Trial Court of Bacoor, Cavite.] respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-00-1261 | 2000-04-03

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J.:

A judge who commits a patent error on so elementary a subject is administratively liable for gross ignorance of the law. Such liability is aggravated by a callous disregard of direct orders of this Court.

The Case
Before this Court is a Complaint for gross ignorance of the law and serious misconduct filed with the Office of the Court Administrator on February 22, 1996. The Complaint was filed by Atty. Noe Cangco Zarate against Judge Isauro M. Balderian, who was at the time the presiding judge of the Municipal Circuit Trial Court of Carmona-Gen. Mariano Alvarez, Cavite.

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