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Garcia vs. Executive Secretary 583 SCRA 119

CONGRESSMAN ENRIQUE T. GARCIA of the 2nd District of Bataan, Petitioner, versus THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, CALTEX PHILIPPINES, INC., PETRON CORPORATION, and PILIPINAS SHELL CORPORATION, Respondents.

G.R. No. 157584 | 2009-04-02

D E C I S I O N 
 
 
BRION, J.: 
 
For the second time, petitioner Enrique T. Garcia, Jr. (petitioner Garcia) asks this Court to examine the constitutionality of Section 19 of Republic Act No. 8479 (R.A. No. 8479), otherwise known as the Oil Deregulation Law of 1998) through this petition for certiorari.[1] He raises once again before us the propriety of implementing full deregulation by removing the system of price controls in the local downstream oil industry - a matter that we have ruled upon in the past. 
 
THE FACTS 
 
After years of imposing significant controls over the downstream oil industry in...