'Defective, deficient': CA junks Discaya's appeal vs Senate arrest

The Court of Appeals (CA) has rejected contractor Pacifico “Curlee” Discaya’s appeal to reverse a trial court’s ruling that kept him under Senate custody for nearly nine months after being cited in contempt. The CA’s Third Division denied Discaya’s petition for certiorari in a June 4 resolution, ruling that it was the wrong legal remedy and declaring it “procedurally defective and substantively deficient.” READ: Curlee Discaya leaves Senate for Bulacan jail “Thus, the appropriate recourse of petitioner before the Court should have been through a notice of appeal under Rule 41, Sec. 2(a),” read the ruling, citing the provision for the […]... Keep on reading: 'Defective, deficient': CA junks Discaya's appeal vs Senate arrest