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Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association vs. Nicolas & Cruz

AGRARIAN REFORM BENEFICIARIES ASSOCIATION (ARBA), represented by JOSEPHINE B. OMICTIN, Petitioner, versus LORETO G. NICOLAS and OLIMPIO CRUZ, Respondents.

G.R. No. 168394 | 2008-10-06

D E C I S I O N

REYES, R.T., J.:

THE DUTY of the court to protect the weak and the underprivileged should not be carried out to such an extent as to deny justice to the landowner whenever truth and justice happen to be on his side.[1]

This is a petition for review on certiorari of the Decision[2] of the Court of Appeals (CA) reinstating the decision of the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB), Tagum City, Davao del Norte. The DARAB declared the land granted to petitioner, Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association (ARBA), exempt from the coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). It ordered, inter alia,...