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Twelve landmark cases across the Bar subjects, each with a digest, the doctrine, the Court's own index points, and the full decision one click away in the reader. Free to read, no account needed.
The Court upheld the Reproductive Health Law as not unconstitutional in its entirety, but struck down eight provisions that compelled conscientious objectors to refer or inform, dispensed with spousal/parental consent, and diluted the statutory definition of abortifacient.
The Court held that COMELEC gravely abused its discretion in cancelling Grace Poe's COC, ruling that foundlings are natural-born Filipinos and that she met the ten-year residency requirement.
The Supreme Court held that suits against US Navy officers for the USS Guardian's grounding on Tubbataha Reefs are barred by State immunity, though the US bears international responsibility under UNCLOS Article 31.
The Court, with finality, upheld SEC-MC No. 8: the 60% Filipino capital requirement for public utilities applies to the total voting shares AND the total outstanding capital stock, not separately to each class of shares.
Res ipsa loquitur cannot convict a physician where the injury is not one that ordinarily bespeaks negligence; absent expert proof of the standard of care and its breach, criminal negligence is not proved beyond reasonable doubt.
A general practitioner who promptly refers a suspected appendicitis case to a surgeon is not criminally negligent; the surgeon who ignored the deteriorating patient is, but his death pending appeal extinguishes criminal and ex delicto civil liability.
A co-owner cannot sell a definite portion of unpartitioned co-owned land without the other co-owners' consent; such a sale is void ab initio and cannot be enforced by specific performance.
An oral sale of land is valid and enforceable once executed, but a sale made within the five-year prohibitory period after a free patent is void, and laches cannot bar an action to recover land under a void contract.
A physician who selectively appreciates symptoms, ignores the patient's history and fails to order confirmatory tests is liable for medical negligence, and the hospital is solidarily liable under apparent authority.
An airline's failure to verify a passenger's valid ticket and its refusal to board confirmed passengers constitute bad faith in breach of the contract of carriage, warranting moral and exemplary damages.
Philippine tribunals validly exercised jurisdiction over Saudia despite a foreign choice-of-law clause; forum non conveniens must be timely pleaded and factually shown, and terminating flight attendants for becoming pregnant is void sex discrimination.
A judicially approved compromise has the force of res judicata and may not be altered on execution; a writ that varies the parties' obligations under the compromise — or reaches non-parties — is void.
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