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Consti 1 Case List 2020
Consti 1 Case List 2020
Consti 1 Case List 2020
The following is a list of suggested cases (and topics) that professors in the department can use
in their classes. Everyone is encouraged to use the said case list to supplement your existing
syllabus. This is a consolidated list taken from the case lists/syllabus of Dean Magsalin, and
Professors Lopez, Sandoval and Pulido.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I
I. Introduction
Rules of Interpretation
o Facial Challenge
o Political Question
o Standing
o Earliest Opportunity
o Need to notify Solicitor General
Mirasol vs CA GR 128448 (2001)
o Symbolic Decisions
Salonga v Cruz Pano 134 SCRA 438
Territory
Magallona v Ermita, G.R. 187167 (2011)
Province of North Cotabato v GRP Peace Panel on Ancestral Domain, 568
SCRA 402 (2008)
Reagan v CIR, 30 SCRA 968 (1969)
People v Gozo 53 SCRA 476
Philippine Citizenship
o The President
The Judiciary
Chavez v JBC, 676 SCRA 579 (2012 and 696 SCRA 496 (2013)
Jardeleza v Sereno, 733 SCRA 279 (2014) and Resolution, GR 213181, Jan 21,
2015
Villanueva v JBC, GR 211833, Apr 7, 2015
o Judicial Independence
Re: COA Opinion on the Appraised Value of the Properties Purchased for the
retired Chief/Associate Justices of SC, 678 SCRA 1 (2012)
Re: Request for Guidance/Clarification on Section 7, Rule 111, RA 10154
requiring government employees to secure a clearance of pendency/non-
pendency of cases from CSC, 706 SCRA 502 (2013)
Re: Save the SC Judicial Independence and Fiscal Autonomy Movement v
Abolition of Judiciary development Fund (JDF) and Reduction of Fiscal
Autonomy UDK-15143, Jan 21, 2015
Re: Petition for recognition of the exemption of the GSIS from payment of legal
fees, 612 SCRA 193 (2010)
Pimentel v LEB, G.R. No.230642, September 10, 2019
o Common Provisions
o The COMELEC
o The COA
o Sandiganbayan
PD 1606
Nunez v Sandiganbayan, 111 SCRA 433
o Ombudsman
o National Commissions