Practice question
What does the hierarchy-of-courts doctrine ordinarily require where courts have concurrent original jurisdiction over the relevant petition?
- Unrestricted forum choice based only on convenience
- Initial resort to the appropriate lower court absent a sufficiently justified exception
- Automatic filing in the Supreme Court
- Filing identical cases everywhere
- Ignoring every jurisdiction statute
Legal references
- Gios-Samar v. DOTC, G.R.217158, March12 2019, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2019/mar2019/gr_217158_2019.html
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