Hierarchy of Courts

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1. Under the ordinary hierarchy described in Gios-Samar, where should an extraordinary-writ challenge to an RTC generally …
2. Counsel says expanded judicial power in ArticleVIII automatically authorizes every grave-abuse claim to begin in the Su…
3. A litigant wants Supreme Court filing because that forum would save one round of litigation, without another exceptiona…
4. A business challenges a regulator’s generally applicable rule on legal grounds before a competent RTC. Its opponent say…
5. A petition challenging an RTC order is sent directly to the Supreme Court solely to avoid the Court of Appeals. The pet…
6. Explain why the hierarchy doctrine does not mean that lower courts are prohibited from deciding constitutional question…
7. Explain why expanded grave-abuse review does not itself eliminate hierarchy.
8. Identify the institutional costs Gios-Samar’s filtering doctrine addresses when litigants treat the Supreme Court as th…