Supreme Court of the Philippines This Month in History

Supreme Court of the Philippines This Month in History
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*- In 1847, the Court’s 1st Associate Justice and its 1st Chief Justice, Hon. Cayetano S. Arellano, was born.
*- SC designates 99 Regional Trial Courts (RTCs) nationwide as special courts to hear, try and decide cases involving extrajudicial killings in 2007.
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*- Hon. Lourdes Paredes-San Diego is appointed the first woman Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals in 1980
*- Chief Justice Ramon C. Aquino resigns in 1986 upon the request of the administration of President Corazon C. Aquino
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*- A Provisional Law on the Judiciary is passed by the Malolos Congress in 1899
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*- The Court of Appeals is abolished in 1945 (EO 37)
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*- The "Parity Amendment" to the 1935 Constitution is ratified in a plebiscite in 1947
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*- The Philippine Judicial Academy is established with Hon. Ameurfina A. Melencio Herrera as Chancellor in 1996 (SC-AO 35-96)
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*- The RP-US Military Bases Agreement is signed by President Manuel A. Roxas and US Ambassador Paul V. McNutt in 1947
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*- President Ramon Magsaysay dies in a plane crash in 1957
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*- Vice President Carlos P. Garcia is sworn in as President of the Philippines in 1957
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*- Chief Justice Manuel V. Moran retires in 1951
- In 1987, the Supreme Court strikes down Executive Order 626-A, which banned transportation and slaughter of carabaos, as unconstitutional in G.R. No. 74457 (Ynot v. Intermediate Appellate Court)
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*- Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo takes his oath as President of the Revolutionary Government in 1897
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*- The Tydings-McDuffie Act (Public Act 127) is signed by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934
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*- President Corazon C. Aquino issues Proclamation No. 1, directing “all public officials to submit their courtesy resignations beginning with the members of the Supreme Court" in 1986
*- Proclamation No. 3 providing for the "Freedom Constitution" is issued in 1986
*- The jurisdiction of Metropolitan Trial Courts (MeTCs), Municipal Trial Courts (MTCs), and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts (MCTCs) is expanded in 1994 (RA 7691)
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*- Maria V. Francisco is the first woman admitted to the Bar in 1911
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*- In 1993, the Court’s 90th Associate Justice and its 15th Chief Justice, Hon. Ramon C. Aquino, passed away.