REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11576 | AN ACT FURTHER EXPANDING THE JURISDICTION OF THE METROPOLITAN TRIAL COURTS, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS IN CITIES, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS, AND MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 129, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “THE JUDICIARY REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1980,” AS AMENDED

G.R. No. 160090, February 19, 2020 | Jose Del Pilar, Emelba Baliwag, Renato Bauyon, Loida Dotong, Victoriana Eje, Nenita Lasin, Padilla Regondola, Mauro Rodriguez, and Ma. Salome Santoyo, Petitioners, vs. Batangas II Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Batelec Ii), Respondent.

G.R. No. 214647, March 04, 2020 | Edwin Talabis, Petitioner, vs. People of the Philippines, Respondent.

(1) Whether or not petitioner’s failure to collect the legal interests and penalties is grossly disadvantageous to the government under Secs. 3(e) and (g). (2) Whether or not Valera is guilty of corrupt practices of public officers under Section 3(d) of RA 3019.

Whether or not the crime is abduction with rape as RTC ruled.