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Morales vs. Court of Appeals and Binay

CONCHITA CARPIO MORALES, in her capacity as the Ombudsman, Petitioner versus COURT OF APPEALS (SIXTH DIVISION) and JEJOMAR ERWIN S. BINAY, JR., Respondents

G.R. Nos. 217126-27 | 2015-11-10

EN BANC
DECISION

PERLAS-BERNABE, J.:

"All government is a trust, every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be.(.]" 1

The Case

Before the Court is a petition for certiorari and prohibition 2 filed on March 25, 2015 by petitioner Conchita Carpio Morales, in her capacity as the Ombudsman (Ombudsman), through the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), assailing: (a) the Resolution 3 dated March 16, 2015 of public respondent the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. SP No. 139453, which granted private respondent Jejomar Erwin S. Binay, Jr.'s (Binay, Jr.) prayer for the issuance of a temporary restraining order...