Petitioners:

Isabelita C. Vinuya, et al., all members of the Malaya Lolas Organization

Respondent:
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE MARIANO C. DEL CASTILLO.

Facts:
 On October 12, 2010, petitioners seek reconsideration of the court that dismissed their charges
for plagiarism, twisted of cited materials, and gross neglect against Del Castillo.
 Black Laws Dictionary defines plagiarism as the deliberate or knowing presentation of another
person's original ideas or creative expressions as one's own.
 Loyola Schools of Academic integrity ordains that plagiarism is identified not through intent but
through the act of itself.
 The duty of judges is to apply the laws as these are written.
 According to Duncan Webb, lawyers and judges are putting their own ideas, their language and
their work in public domain, to be affirmed, adopted, criticized and rejected.
 Joyce C. George observed that even if a judge use an ideas, words, or phrases from a law review
article, novel or languages that can use as an attribution to solve the case is exempted from a
charge of plagiarism. 2 exemptions are when the judge is not writing literary work, and the
purpose of the writing is to resolve a dispute.
 Magistrates decisions analyze the often conflicting facts of each case and sort out the relevant
form the irrelevant.
 In Vinuya, Del Castillo examined and summarized the facts in a way that no one has ever done it
before, he identified and formulated the core of the issues that the parties raised.
 Del Castillo drew materials from various sources, including the 3 foreign authors cited in the
charges against him.

Issue:
Whether or not the Court will deny the motion for reconsideration for commission of plagiarism
by Del Castillo that was filed by the petitioner.

Ruling: