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Practice question: Police Power

Multiple Choice Easy Jurisprudence

Practice question

In police-power review, whose interests must generally justify interference with private rights?
  1. Only those of a favored business
  2. The public generally, rather than a particular class alone
  3. Only those of the ordinance’s sponsor
  4. Only those of one private creditor
  5. Only those of officials receiving fees

Legal references

  • White Light Corporation v. City of Manila, G.R. No. 122846, January 20, 2009, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/48715

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