Practice question
A petition repeats broad constitutional labels but its requested relief requires resolving conflicting accounts of negotiations, credibility and technical measurements. Counsel says the hierarchy rule is only a polite suggestion and can be ignored without explanation. Which is best?
- Every constitutional label defeats hierarchy
- The Court must accept counsel’s description of factual issues as legal
- Hierarchy serves substantive institutional purposes, and unexplained direct resort requiring initial fact-finding is not justified by those labels
- The petitioner may create jurisdiction by calling the case urgent
- The court must decide credibility from counsel’s assurances alone
Legal references
- Gios-Samar, G.R.217158, March12 2019, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2019/mar2019/gr_217158_2019.html
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