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BANTAY REPUBLIC ACT OR BA-RA 7941 v. COMELEC

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	GR No. 203766 2013-04-02	ATONG PAGLAUM v. COMELEC CARPIO, J.
- Failure to prove that the group is marginalized and underrepresented. Resolution dated 28 November 2012[45] 36 204356 12-136 (PLM) Butil Farmers Party (BUTIL) Cancelled registration and accreditation
	GR No. 165036 2010-07-05	HAZEL MA. C. ANTOLIN v. ABELARDO T. DOMONDON DEL CASTILLO, J.
In this jurisdiction, any citizen may challenge any attempt to obstruct the exercise of his or her right to information and may seek its enforcement by mandamus.[43] And since every citizen possesses the inherent right to be informed by the mere fact of citizenship,[44] we find that petitioner's belated passing of the CPA Board Exams does not automatically mean that her interest in the Examination Papers has become mere superfluity. Undoubtedly, the constitutional question presented, in view of the likelihood that the issues in this case will be repeated, warrants review.[45]
	GR No. 189466 2010-02-11	DARYL GRACE J. ABAYON v. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL ABAD, J.
As this Court also held in Bantay Republic Act or BA-RA 7941 v. Commission on Elections,[6] a party-list representative is in every sense "an elected member of the House of Representatives." Although the vote cast in a party-list election is a vote for a party, such vote, in the end, would be a vote for its nominees, who, in appropriate cases, would eventually sit in the House of Representatives.
	GR No. 177179 2009-06-05	V.C. CADANGEN v. COMELEC NACHURA, J.
The Court emphasizes that the sole function of a writ of certiorari is to address issues of want of jurisdiction or grave abuse of discretion and it does not include a review of the tribunal's evaluation of the evidence.[18] The findings of fact made by the COMELEC, or by any other administrative agency exercising expertise in its particular field of competence, are binding on the Court.[19] The Court is not a trier of facts;[20] it is not equipped to receive evidence and determine the truth of factual allegations.[21] The Court's function, as mandated by Section 1,[22] Article VIII of the Constitution, is merely to check whether or not the governmental branch or agency has gone beyond the constitutional limits of its jurisdiction, not that it erred or has a different view. In the absence of a showing of grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of jurisdiction, this Court will have no occasion to exercise its corrective power. It has no authority to inquire into what it thinks is apparent error.[23]