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Light Rail Transit Authority vs. Quezon City

LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT AUTHORITY, PETITIONER, VS. QUEZON CITY, REPRESENTED BY THE CITY TREASURER AND THE CITY ASSESSOR, RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 221626 | 2019-10-09

DECISION
 
LAZARO-JAVIER, J.:
 
Prefatory
 
The doctrine of precedents is fundamental to our legal system. It provides certainty while permitting the orderly development of the law in incremental steps. Stare decisis, however, is not a straitjacket which condemns the law to stasis or a state of suspended animation and disbelief. Where there is a change in the circumstances which fundamentally shifts the parameters of the debate, especially the collective thinking of the Court expressed in later decisions and the present social milieus on which our decisions will greatly impact, we have to understand and give effect to precedents...