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Cruz and Europa v. Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources

G.R. No. 135385 · 2000 · Indigenous peoples and ancestral domains

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[34] Association of Small Landowners v. Secretary of Agrarian Reform, 175 SCRA 343, 364 (1989); Joya v. PCGG, 225 SCRA 568 (1993). [35] People v. Vera, 65 Phil. 56, 89 (1937). [36] Lozada v. COMELEC, 120 SCRA 337, 342 (1983). [37] US v. Richardson, 418 US 166, 194 S Ct 2940, 41 L Ed 2d 678 (1974). [38] Kilosbayan v. Guingona, 232 SCRA 110, 135 (1994), citing, among others, Philconsa v. Gimenez, 15 SCRA 479 (1965); CLU V. Executive Secretary, 194 SCRA 317 (1991); Guingona v. Carague, 196 SCRA 221 (1991); Osmena v. COMELEC, 199 SCRA 750 (1991); Basco v. PAGCOR, 197 SCRA 52 (1991); Carpio v. Executive Secretary, 206 SCRA 290 (1992). In Kilosbayan v. Morato (250 SCRA 130 [1995]) the Court discoursed on the rule on standing as follows: taxpayers may sue on the claim of illegal disbursement of funds, or to assail the constitutionality of a tax measure; voters may question the validity of election laws; citizens may raise constitutional questions of transcendental importance which must be settled early; and, legislators may question the validity of official acts which infringe their prerogatives. [39] Araneta v. Dinglasan, 84 Phil. 368, 373 (1949). [40] Assn. of Small Landowners in the Philippines v. Secretary of Agrarian Reform, 175 SCRA 343, 364-365 (1989). [41] 16 Phil. 366 (1910), citing HIGH, EXTRAORDINARY LEGAL REMEDIES. [42] Id., at 371. [43] Id., at 374-375. [44] 136 SCRA 27, 37 (1985). [45] 177 SCRA 374, 383 (1989). [46] 224 SCRA 792 (1993). [47] Id., at 805. [48] Ibid. [49] Philconsa v. Mathay, 18 SCRA 300, 306 (1966). [50] Philconsa v. Gimenez, 15 SCRA 479, 487 (1965), citing 11 Am Jur 761. [51] Sanidad v. COMELEC, 73 SCRA 333, 358-359 (1976); Pascual v. Secretary of Public Works, 110 Phil. 331 (1960); Tan v. Macapagal, 43 SCRA 677, 680 (1972). [52] Section 79. Appropriations.-- The amount necessary to finance the initial implementation of this Act shall be charged against the current year's appropriation of the ONCC and the OSCC. Thereafter, such sums as may be