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Banez vs Valdevilla & OMI

BEBIANO M. BA?EZ, petitioner, vs. HON. DOWNEY C. VALDEVILLA and ORO MARKETING, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. 128024 | 2000-05-09

D E C I S I O N


GONZAGA_REYES, J.:

The orders of respondent judge1 [Presiding over Branch 39 of the Regional Trial Court of Misamis Oriental.] dated June 20, 1996 and October 16, 1996, taking jurisdiction over an action for damages filed by an employer against its dismissed employee, are assailed in this petition for certiorari under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court for having been issued in grave abuse of discretion.

Petitioner was the sales operations manager of private respondent in its branch in Iligan City. In 1993, private respondent "indefinitely suspended" petitioner and the latter filed a complaint for illegal dismissal with the...