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RULE 58
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
Section 1. Preliminary
injunction
defined; classes. - A
preliminary injunction is an order granted at any stage of an
action or proceeding prior to the judgment or final order, requiring
a party or a court, agency or a person to refrain from a particular
act or acts. It may also require the performance of a particular act
or acts, in which case it shall be known as preliminary mandatory
injunction.
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it is worded this way: Civil case for injunction with writ of preliminary injunction. The
injunction is the final injunction and the writ is the provisional one. So the former is the
main relief while the latter is the temporary relief.
Purpose of preliminary injunction: To maintain the status quo between the parties in
relation to the subject matter. So, to maintain the status quo.
STATUS QUO is the last peaceable and uncontested status of the
preceded the pending case from the controversy.
parties which
Because status quo may be preceded like, the squatters entering your land, so nasa
loob na sila. So you ask for preliminary injunction--- so status quo. Sabi ng mga
squatters, status quo--- we will remain in the land!
Of course, that is not the purpose. The purpose is to bring you out because the status
quo is the last peaceable, uncontested status
of the parties which proceeded the
pending action or prior to the case.
Even in the labor case, magulo iyan eh, yong last peaceable and uncontested status.
An example of injunction in Labor case, iyong assumption of jurisdiction by the
Secretary of Labor. In which the Secretary of Labor assumes jurisdiction in cases of
national interest.
Ano iyon ? When there is a threatened strike --- injunction! And if there is already a
strike, strike is lifted and the employee must have to go back to work and the
management will accept those employees under the terms and conditions before the
strike.
Section 2. Who may grant preliminary injunction. - A preliminary
injunction may be granted by the court where the action or
proceeding is pending. If the action or proceeding is pending in the
Court of Appeals or in the Supreme Court, it may be issued by said
court or any member thereof.
Q: Who may grant a preliminary injunction?
A: 1. The court where the case is pending.
2. CA.
3. SC.
EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE AUTHORITY (EPZA) vs. CHR
April 14, 1992
FACTS: When ordered to stop, the occupants of the export processing
zone authority in the EPZA land where the occupants filed a case in the
CHR (Commission on Human Rights), the CHR issued a writ of
injunction or restraining order against the supposed violators of
human rights to compel them to cease and desist from continuing the
acts complained of, and the authority of the CHR to issue an injunction
was challenged. Does it have an authority?
And the CHR said, yes---because under the Constitution the principal
function of the CHR is not merely limited in having investigation. It is
mandated among others to provide appropriate legal measures for the
protection of the human rights of all persons within the Philippines as
well Filipino abroad. And to provide for preventive measures and legal aid
services to the under privileged whose human rights have been violated.
ISSUE: Does the CHR have the power to issue a writ of injunction?
HELD: The CHR is wrong because as earlier ruled in the case of CARIO
VS. CHR, the CHR is not a court of justice and it is not even a quasijudicial body. The Constitutional provisions cited may not be construed
to compel jurisdiction of the CHR to issue restraining order or injunction
because if that was the intention the Constitution would have especially
said so.
Jurisdiction is conferred only by the Constitution and by the law and is
never derived by implication.
Q: What is the meaning of the term preventive measures or legal
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SARENO V. DICTADO
160 SCRA 759
FACTS: Sareno was elected as mayor, he was proclaimed as the winner.
Five days later, the losing candidate filed an election protest before the
RTC.
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YU v. COURT OF APPEALS
217 SCRA 328
FACTS: Yu is the exclusive distributor of a certain product here in the
Philippines.
He discovered that another businessman is selling the
same product within the country. He filed a case against the other
businessman and sought an injunction against the latter from selling
said product.
HELD: Injunction is an appropriate remedy to prevent the wrongful
interference with contracts by strangers where other remedies are not
sufficient and the resulting injury is irreparable. The right to an
exclusive distributorship and to raise profits resulting from such
performance are proprietary rights which may be protected.
BROCKA vs ENRILE
December 10, 1990 (192 SCRA 183)
HELD: The primary issue here is the legality of enjoining the criminal
prosecution of a case, since the two other issues raised by Brocka, et al. are
matters of defense against the sedition charge.
We rule in favor of Brocka, et al. and enjoin their criminal prosecution for
the second offense of inciting to sedition.
Indeed, the general rule is that criminal prosecution may not be
restrained or stayed by injunction, preliminary or final.
There are however exceptions, among which are:
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ALLADO vs DIOKNO
May 5, 1994 (232 SCRA 192)
FACTS: Two lawyers, assistants of Salonga were charged of murder for the
alleged kidnapping of a German. Salonga asked to stop the criminal prosecution.
HELD: The facts of this case are fatefully distressing as they showcase the
seeming immensity of government power which when unchecked becomes
tyrannical and oppressive. The case before us, if uncurbed, can be illustrative of
a dismal trend. Needless injury of the sort inflicted by government agents is not
reflective of responsible government. Judges and law enforcers are not, by
reason of their high and prestigious office, relieved of the common obligation to
avoid deliberately inflicting unnecessary injury.
Perhaps, this case would not have reached this Court if petitioners were
ordinary people submissive to the dictates of government. They would have been
illegally arrested and detained without bail. Then we would not have the
opportunity to rectify the injustice. Fortunately, the victims of injustice are
lawyers who are vigilant of their rights, who fight for their liberty and freedom
not otherwise available to those who cover in fear and subjection.
3) A mandatory injunction cannot be issued to compel one spouse to cohabit with
the other.
So, you cannot compel the wife. You are hereby enjoined to cohabit
your husband. Hindi yun puwede. Although she is obliged under the law
to live with his husband but no amount of court order can force the wife
to return to her husband kung ayaw niya. Although there are other
sanctions but not injunctions.
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4. Where there is a willful and unlawful invasion of plaintiffs right against his
protest and remonstrance, the injury being a continuing one.
5. Articles 539 and 1674 of the Civil Code which expressly direct the issuance of
mandatory injunction. Example: A possessor deprived of his possession by
forcible entry may, within so many days, file a complaint in the proper court and
ask for a writ of mandatory injunction to restore him in his possession. And
also, in different cases where the defendant appealed, the lessor can ask the
appellate court to issue a mandatory injunction if the appeal is frivolous or
dilatory. Those are the instances when the law expressly grants the remedy.
6. Where the effect of mandatory injunction is rather to re-establish and maintain
a pre-existing continuing relation between the parties recently and arbitrarily
interrupted by the defendant.
The example asked in the Bar many times, MERALCO VS. CA, where the electric power
of the defendant was disconnected by Meralco, Then he filed a case questioning the act
of Meralco, and he has evidence to show that he has paying his bills. Something
happened somewhere. If he will wait for the time of judgment to be rendered, that
would take years. While the case is going on, he can file for a mandatory injunction to
reconnect.
Another example was the case of LEVI VS. VALENCIA, where Levi was the owner of a
broadcasting company. The government raided his radio station and got his transmitter
and cut down the power of his transmitter. He questioned all these acts and in the
meantime, he filed for mandatory injunction to allow him to continue broadcasting
because he has contracts with advertisers to comply with .
The SC said, when the petitioner was not able to continue broadcasting due to seizure
of his radio transmitter, this affects his contractual relations with third persons. The
court is justified to issuing a mandatory injunction.
SEC. 4. Verified application and bond for preliminary injunction
or temporary restraining order. - A preliminary injunction or
temporary restraining order may be granted only when:
a.) The application in the action or proceeding is verified and
shows facts entitling the applicant to the relief demanded; and
b.) Unless exempted by the court, the applicant files with the
court where the action or proceeding is pending, a bond
executed to the party or person enjoined, in an amount to be
fixed by the court, to the effect that the applicant will pay to
such party or person all damages which he may sustain by
reason of the injunction or temporary restraining order if the
court should finally decide that the applicant was not entitled
thereto. Upon approval of the requisite bond, a writ of
preliminary injunction shall be issued.
c.) When an application for a writ of preliminary injunction or a
temporary restraining order is included is a complaint or any
initiatory pleading, the case, if filed in an multiple-sala court,
shall be raffled only after notice to and in the presence of the
adverse party of the person to be enjoined. In any event, such
notice shall be preceded, or contemporaneously accompanied,
by the service of summons, together with a copy of the
complainant or initiatory pleading
and the applicants
affidavit and bond, upon the adverse party in the Philippines.
However, where the summons could not be served personally or
by substituted service despite diligent efforts, or the adverse
party is a resident of the Philippines temporarily absent
therefrom or is a non-resident thereof, the requirement of prior
contemporaneous service of summons shall not apply.
d.) The application of a temporary restraining order shall
thereafter be acted upon only after all parties are heard in a
summary hearing which shall be conducted within twenty four
(24) hours after the sheriff's return of service and/or the
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