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  National Power Corporation vs Angas Facts:            Petitioner National Power Corporation, filed two complaints for eminent domain against private respondents with the Court of First Instance of Lanao del Sur. The complaint which sought to expropriate certain specified lots situated at Limogao, Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur was for the purpose of the development of hydro-electric power and production of electricity as well as the erection of such subsidiary works and constructions as may be necessarily connected therewith. Subsequently, a consolidated decision was rendered by the lower court, declaring and confirming that the lots mentioned and described in the complaints have entirely been lawfully condemned and expropriated by the petitioner, and ordering the latter to pay the private respondents certain sums of money as just compensation for their lands expropriated “with legal interest thereon until fully paid.” Two consecutive ...

  Francisco Chavez vs. PCGG ( DIGEST ) 299 SCRA 744 ( G.R. No. 130716 ), December 9, 1998   FACTS: Petitioner Chavez, as taxpayer, citizen and former gov’t official, impelled to bring this action regarding several news reports on: (1) the alleged discovery of billions of dollars of Marcos assets deposited in various coded accounts in Swiss banks and (2) the reported  execution of a compromise , between the government (through PCGG) and the Marcos heirs, on how to split or share these assets. Petitioner, invoking his  constitutional right to information , demands that respondents make public any negotiations and agreements pertaining to PCGG’s task of recovering the Marcoses’ ill-gotten wealth.  He claims that any compromise on the alleged billions of ill-gotten wealth involves an issue of  paramount public interest , since it has a “debilitating effect on the country’s economy” that would be greatly prejudicial to the national interest of the F...