Contempt sought for labor chief after acting like ‘super’ CA
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By Tetch Torres
INQ7.net
Last updated 03:55pm (Mla time) 10/23/2006
FORMER senator Rene Saguisag has asked the Court of Appeals to cite Labor Secretary Arturo Brion in contempt when he acted like a “super Court of Appeals” by stopping the oath-taking of some 17,000 nurses who passed the June 2006 licensure exam despite a court order that allowed it.
“What did cavalier Secretary Brion do? Indirectly, he has TRO'd [temporary restraining order] this Honorable Court, whose decision he earlier said he would honor,” said Saguisag in his five-page urgent motion.
“He was the self-same person who said litigation took time; therefore, government can just do what it wants when it wants when its acts are questioned. Now this new startling turnabout in defiance of the announced Palace position articulated by Secretaries Michael Defensor and Ignacio Bunye and PRC [Professional Regulation Commission] Chairperson Leonor Tripon-Rosero, supporting the official stand of the Office of the Solicitor-General,” Saguisag said. http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnews/nation/view_article.php?article_id=28241
Saying that even as a “former member of this Honorable court [appellate court],” Saguisag said Brion was “not like the Chief Justice, who may issue on he’s own a status quo order...Secretary Brion should have the courtesy of coursing his position through the Solicitor-General. Even the Presiding Justice here, he could not thwart a Division's decision.”
Two weeks ago, the Court of Appeals allowed the oath-taking of some
17,000 Nursing board passers and a retake by over 1,000 others who had passed after the PRC recomputed the scores amid allegations then of a leakage of some of the questions.
"Secretary Brion has done far more harm than the cheaters -- whoever they are -- have done, by having the world see us as a society without predictability, stability and coherence -- hallmarks of a mature legal system," said Saguisag who represents a group of nursing students who passed the recent licensure exams.
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