Practice question
A Rule64 petition concerns a COA ruling. A timely reconsideration motion allowed by the Commission's rules is denied. Assume only three days of the original thirty-day period otherwise remain. Under Rule64 §3, what minimum remaining period applies from notice of denial?
- A fresh thirty days automatically.
- A fresh fifteen days under Neypes automatically.
- Only one day.
- No time because reconsideration is forbidden in every COA case.
- At least five days; the Rule64 remainder is subject to that floor.
Legal references
- https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2019-rules-of-civil-procedure.pdf — Supreme Court official current2019 Rules40–41 text.
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html — Rules40–45,51§8,64§3 (read with 2019 amendments).
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2005/sep2005/gr_141524_2005.html — Neypes v CA, GR141524, September14 2005, en banc main decision.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/jan2015/gr_213525_2015.html — Fortune Life v COA, GR213525, January27 2015, en banc main resolution.
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