Practice question
An agency issues a provisional order while the authorized quasi-judicial case remains pending and expressly leaves the parties’ substantive entitlement for later decision. A party calls the provisional step a final merits bar to the continuing case. Which is the best response?
- Every provisional order automatically ends the case forever.
- The words provisional and final always mean the same thing.
- The agency loses all authority by keeping a record.
- The stipulated step has not supplied the final merits judgment required for the asserted bar.
- The parties become immune from all future proceedings.
Legal references
- Encinas v. Agustin, G.R. No. 187317, April 11, 2013, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2013/apr2013/gr_187317_2013.html
- Ligtas v. People, G.R. No. 200751, August 17, 2015, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/aug2015/gr_200751_2015.html
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