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Public Interest Center, Inc. vs. Roxas 513 SCRA 457

PUBLIC INTEREST CENTER, INC., LAUREANO T. ANGELES, and JOCELYN P. CELESTINO Petitioners, versus HONORABLE VICENTE Q. ROXAS, in his capacity as Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 227, REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, NATIONAL POWER CORPORATION, WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC S.A., WESTINGHOUSE INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS COMPANY, Respondents.

G.R. No. 125509 | 2007-01-31

D E C I S I O N

CARPIO MORALES, J.:

Challenged via petition for certiorari is the Quezon City Regional Trial Court's Resolution dated April 17, 1996 dismissing the Complaint of Public Interest Center, Inc., Laureano T. Angeles and Jocelyn P. Celestino (petitioners) in Civil Case No. Q-95-25597, and Order dated June 18, 1996, denying petitioners' motion for reconsideration.

The antecedent facts, as culled from the records of the case, are as follows:

On February 9, 1976, respondent National Power Corporation (NPC) entered into a contract (the Contract) with respondent Westinghouse Electric S.A. (WESA), an affiliate or subsidiary of...