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Special Commercial Courts

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  1. Under Gonzales v. GJH Land, what is the character of the Supreme Court's designation of certain RTC branches as Special…
  2. Which statute transferred the SEC's jurisdiction over the cases enumerated in PD902-A §5 to the appropriate Regional Tr…
  3. Does designation as a Special Commercial Court make an RTC branch lose the RTC's statutory general jurisdiction over or…
  4. A commercial case is filed before the proper RTC but mistakenly raffled to a regular branch. That RTC has exactly one d…
  5. A commercial case filed before the proper RTC is wrongly raffled to a regular branch. The RTC has three designated Spec…
  6. An ordinary civil action otherwise within the proper RTC's jurisdiction is mistakenly raffled to its designated Special…
  7. A commercial case is filed before the proper RTC, which has no internal branch designated as a Special Commercial Court…
  8. Explain the distinction between the statutory grant of RTC jurisdiction over former SEC cases and designation of certai…
  9. A commercial case filed in the proper RTC is wrongly assigned to a regular branch. Explain how Gonzales treats the situ…
  10. Under Gonzales, explain how to handle an ordinary RTC civil case wrongly raffled to a Special Commercial Court branch, …
  11. What two inquiries are used to identify the intra-corporate character of a controversy?
  12. Does the mere fact that two litigants are shareholders automatically make every dispute between them intra-corporate?