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COURSE TITLE : CONSTITUTIONAL LAW II
COURSE CODE : CONLAW230
COURSE CREDIT : THREE (3) UNITS
COURSE TERM : Second Semester, 2019 -2020
PROFESSOR : Dean JOHN PAOLO A. VILLASOR
COURSE SCHEDULE : Tuesdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m. @SA101
COURSE TEXTBOOK :AGPALO, R. Philippine Constitutional Law (2006 Ed.); Bernas, J. The 1987
Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines: A commentary (2009 Ed.)
CASEBOOK : BERNAS, J. Constitutional Rights and Social Demands Part II (2010 Ed.)
REFERENCE BOOKS : CRUZ, I. Philippine Political Law (2002 Ed.); SINCO, V.G. Philippine Constitutional
Law (1949 Ed.); SINCO V.G. Philippine Government and Political Law (4th Ed., 1936)
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A comprehensive study of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and judicial review by the
courts of act affecting individual rights against the coercive power of the state.
The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men’s minds.
COURSE SYLLABUS
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
Philippine Blooming Mills Employees Organization v. Philippine Blooming Mills, 51 SCRA 189 (1973)
Simon v. Commission on Human Rights, 229 SCRA 117 (1994)
Republic v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. No. 104768, July 21, 2003
Alston, Philip. PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC,
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT: Report of the Special
Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Mission to the Philippines), 12-21 February 2007.
Metro Manila Development Authority v. Bel-Air Village Association, 328 SCRA 836 (2000)
Metro Manila Development Authority v. Garin, 456 SCRA 176 (2005)
Corona v. United Harbor Pilots, 283 SCRA 31 (1997)
Army & Navy Club v. Court of Appeals, 271 SCRA 36 (1997)
Acebedo Optical Company v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 100152, March 31, 2000
Secretary of Justice v. Judge Lantion, G.R. No. 139465, 343 SCRA 377 (2000)
Summary Dismissal Board v. Torcita, 330 SCRA 153 (2000)
Lanzetta v. State of New Jersey, 306 U.S. 451 (1939)
People v. De la Piedra, G.R. No. 121777, January 24, 2001
Estrada v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. No. 148560, November 19, 2001
Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. No. 148965, February 26, 2002
Gonzales v. National Labor Relations Commissions (NLRC) & Ateneo de Davao, G.R. No. 125735, August 26, 1999
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004)
Legal Article:
Karst, Kenneth L. The Liberties of Equal Citizens: Groups and the Due Process Clause, 55 UCLA L. REV. 99 (2007)
Ang Tibay v. Court of Industrial Relations, 69 Phil. 635 (1940); per Laurel, J., fot the Court.
Zambales Chromite v. Court of Appeals, 94 SCRA 261 (1979)
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Agabon v. National Labor Relations Commission, 442 SCRA 573 (2004); per Ynares-Santiago, J. for the Court
JAKA Food Processing Corporation v. Paacot, 454 SCRA 119 (2005)
Traditional Approach to Substantive Due Process qua Constitutional Protection on Property Interests
Modern Approach to Substantive Due Process qua Constitutional Protection on Privacy Interests
Compare KMU v. Director-General of the NEDA and DBM Secretary, G.R. No. 167798, April 19, 2006; Bayan
Muna v. Executive Secretary, G.R. 167930, April 19, 2006 (Constitutionality of Exec. Order No. 420) (See Ynares-
Santiago, J., dissenting)
Legal Articles:
Warren and Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, 4 Harv. L. Rev. 193 (1890)
L.D. Lopez, The Right to Privacy in Inquiries in Aid of Legislation, 78 PHIL. L. J. 162 (2003)
M.P.T. Sison III, The Self as Information: The Global Limitations of the Right to Privacy, 84 PHIL. L. J. 687
(2010)
Legal Article:
Defensor-Santiago, The “New” Equal Protection, 58 PHIL. L.J. (1983)
Search in General
Roan v. Gonzales, G.R. No. 71410, 25 November 1986, 145 SCRA 687 (1986)
Electronic searches
See dissenting opinion of Brandeis, J. in Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967)
Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001)
United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 10 (2012) per Scalia, J.; See also Alito and Sotomayor, JJ., concurring
Cybercrime Law
Disini v. Secretary of Justice, G.R. No. 203335, 11 February 2014 (main decision by Abad, J.). Read also the
concurring and dissenting opinion by Sereno, C.J., the concurring and dissenting opinion by Carpio, J., and the
dissenting and concurring opinion by Leonen, J.
Probable Cause
Stonehill v. Diokno, G.R. No. 19550, 19 June 1967, 20 SCRA 383
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Description
People v. Court of Appeals, 291 SCRA 400 (1998)
People v. Tee, 395 SCRA 419 (2003)
Bank Secrecy
Marquez v. Desierto, 359 SCRA 772 (2001)
Checkpoints
People v. Escaño, G.R. Nos. 129756-58, January 28, 2000
Valmonte v. de Villa, 185 SCRA 665 (1989)
People v. Suzuki, 414 SCRA 43 (2003)
People v. Canton, 394 SCRA 478 (2002)
Exigent Circumstances
People v. De Gracia, 233 SCRA 716 (1994)
Board of Education v. Earls, 536 U.S. 822 (2002)
People v. Aruta, 288 SCRA 626 (1998)
Arrests
Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 (1969)
United States v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218 (1973)
People v. Bolasa, 321 SCRA 459 (1999)
People v. Escordial, 373 SCRA 585 (2002)
People v. Jason, 282 SCRA 166 (1997)
People v. Salvatierra, 276 SCRA 77 (1997)
People v. Hernandez, 282 SCRA 387 (1997)
Entrapment
People v. Doria, 301 SCRA 668 (1999)
Legal Articles:
Mendoza, V.V. Reflections on the Constitutional Law of Arrest, Search and Seizure, 63 Phil. L. J. 223 (1988)
Malilong, I.R.P. and Santos, M.A. Fruits of the Poisonous Tree? A Discussion on the Constitutionality of Civil Search
and Seizure, 79 PHIL. L.J. 709 (2004)
Kerr, O.S. Searches and Seizures in a Digital World, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 531 (2005)
Hutchins, R.M. tied Up in Knotts? GPS Technology and the Fourth Amendment, 55 UCLA L. REV. 409 (2007)
Legal Notes:
Ziff, D.J.S. Fourth Amendment Limitations on the Execution of Computer Searches Conducted Pursuant to a
Warrant, 105 Colum. L. Rev. 841 (2005)
The Fourth Amendment’s Third Way, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1627 (2007)
I may not totally agree with what you write, but I shall fight to the death for your right to continue writing it.
- Attributed to Voltaire
Freedom of expression
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation v. COMELEC, 323 SCRA 811 (2000)
Social Weather Station v. COMELEC, 354 SCRA 496 (2001)
Re: Request Radio-TV Coverage of the Trial in the Sandiganbayan of the Plunder Cases against the former
President Joseph E. Estrada, 360 SCRA 248 (2001)
United States v. O’Brien, 391 U.S. 367 (1968)
Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York, 447 U.S. 557 (1980)
In re: Emil Jurado, 243 SCRA 299 (1995)
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997)
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002)
United States, et al. v. American Library Association, Inc., et al., 539 U.S. 194 (2003)
United States v. Grace, 461 U.S. 171 (1983)
In re: Petition to Annul 98-7-02 SC, (Resolution En Banc), 296 SCRA xi (1998)
Protected Speech
Legal Article:
Khaldoun, S. Speech Restraints for Converged Media, 52 UCLA L. REV. 333 (2004)
Legal Essay:
White, J.B. Free Speech and Valuable Speech: Silence, Dante, and the “Marketplace of Ideas,”51 UCLA L. REV.
799 (2004)
Prior Restraint
Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931)
New York Times Co. v. United States, 493 U.S. 713 (1971)
Group Libel
MVRS Publications v. Islamic Da’wah Council of the Philippines, 396 SCRA 210 (2003)
Newsweek v. Intermediate Appelate Court, 142 SCRA 171 (1986)
Political Speech
Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919); See Holmes and Brandeis, JJ., dissenting
Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925); see Holmes, J., dissenting
Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)
Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928); See Brandeis, J., dissenting; Holmes, J., separate
opinion
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919); per Holmes, J., for the Court.
Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951); See Black and Douglas, JJ., dissenting.
Symbolic speech
United States v. O’Brien, 391 U.S. 367 (1968)
Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)
Unprotected Speech
Defamatory Speech
Policarpio v. Manila Times, 5 SCRA 148 (1962)
Lopez v. Court of Appeals, 34 SCRA 116 (1970)
New York Times v. Sullivan, supra
Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, 403 U.S. 29 (1971)
Ayer Production v. Judge Capulong, 160 SCRA 86 (1988)
Beltran v. Hon. Makasiar, 167 SCRA 293 (1988)
Obscenity
Legal Article:
Gonzalez, G.M. The Public Interest v. The “Prurient Interest”; Obscenity in the Movies, 58 PHIL. L.
J. 88 (1983)
Legal Articles:
Byrne, Academic Freedom: A “Special Concern: of the First Amendment, 99 Yale L. J. 25 (1989)
Horwitz, P. Universities as First Amendment Institutions: Some Easy Answers and Hard
Questions, 54 UCLA L. REV. 1497 (2007)
Karlan, Pamela S. Compelling Interests/Compelling Institutions: Law Schools as Constitutional
Litigants, 54 UCLA L. REV. 1613 (2007)
Case Comment:
Saunders, T. The Limits on University Control of Graduate Students Speech, 112 Yale L.J. 1295
(2003)
Limitations
1. The dominant police power of the State; and
2. The social interests of the community
Garcia v. The Faculty Admissions Committee, Loyola School of Theology, 68 SCRA 277 (1975)
Montemayor v. Araneta University, 77 SCRA 321 (1977)
Araneta University v. Argel, 96 SCRA 55 (1980)
Malabanan v. Ramento, 129 SCRA 359 (1984)
Tangonan v. Paño, 137 SCRA 245 (1985)
Villar v. Technological University of the Philippines, 135 SCRA 706 (1985)
Arreza v. Gregorio Araneta University Foundation, 137 SCRA 94 (1985)
Lupangco v. Court of Appeals, 160 SCRA 848 (1988)
Board of Medical Education v. Judge Alfonso, 176 SCRA 304 (1989)
Tan v. Court of Appeals, 199 SCRA 212 (1991)
Isabelo v. Court of Appeals, 227 SCRA 591 (1993)
Angeles v. Judge Sison, 112 SCRA 26 (1982)
Department of Education, Culture and Sports v. San Diego, supra
Non v. Judge Domes, 185 SCRA 523 (1990)
Ateneo de Manila University v. Court of Appeals, 145 SCRA 100 (1986)
Guzman v. National University, 142 SCRA 699 (1986)
University of San Carlos v. Court of Appeals, 166 SCRA 570 (1988)
University of the Philippines v. Judge Ayson, 175 SCRA 216 (1989)
Licup v. University of San Carlos, 178 SCRA 637 (1989)
Reyes v. Court of Appeals, 194 SCRA 402 (1991)
Cagayan Capitol College v. National Labor Relations Commission, 189 SCRA 658
Region v. Pangasinan College of Technology, G.R. No. 156109, November 18, 2004
U.P. Board of Regents v. Court of Appeals and William, 313 SCRA 404 (1999)
University of the Philippines & Alfredo de Torres v. Civil Service Commission, 356 SCRA 57 (2001)
Morales v. Board of Regents, 446 SCRA 227 (2004)
Id. At §17
Protection of rights of indigenous cultural communities
Cruz v. Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, 347 SCRA 128 (2000)
VII. RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACABLY TO ASSEMBLE AND PETITION OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR REDRESS OF
GRIEVANCES
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Legal Note:
Children as Believers: Minors’ Free Exercise Rights and the Psychology of Religious Development, 115 HARV. L.
REV. 2205 (2002)
Exceptions
Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398 (1934)
Rutter v. Esteban, 93 Phil. 68 (1953)
Del Rosario v. De los Santos, 22 SCRA 1196 (1968)
Abella v. National Labor Relations Commission, 158 SCRA 140 (1987)
Philippine Veterans Bank Employees v. Philippine Veterans Bank, 189 SCRA 14 (1994)
Annulment of Contract
Agan, Jr. v. PIATCO, 402 SCRA 612 (2003)
XIII. FREE ACCESS TO COURTS, QUASI-JUDICIAL BODIES AND ADEQUATE LEGAL ASSISTANCE
XIV. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF PERSONS FROM CUSTODIAL INVESTIGATION TO THE POST-TRIAL STAGE
In General
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Legal Article: Mendoza, V.V. The Bill of Rights of Accused Persons, 63 PHIL. L.J. 59 (1988)
Legal Article: Mendoza, V.V. The Right to Counsel in Custodial Interrogation, 61 PHIL. L.J. 409 (1986)
Legal Note: Juvenile Miranda Waiver and Parental Rights, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 2359 (2013)
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966); per Warren, C.J., for the Court in a 5-4 majority decision.
Gideon v. Wainright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963)
Magtoto v. Manguera, 63 SCRA 4 (1975)
People v. Loveria, 187 SCRA 47 (1980)
People v. Galit, 135 SCRA 465 (1985)
Gamboa v. Judge Cruz, 162 SCRA 642 (1988)
People v. Judge Ayson, 175 SCRA 216 (1989)
People v. Pinlac, 165 SCRA 675 (1988)
People v. Mahinay, 302 SCRA 455 (1999)
People v. Mojello, 425 SCRA 11 (2004); per Ynares-Santiago, J. for the Court.
NO TORTURE OR OTHER MEANS TO VITIATE THE FREE WILL SHALL BE USED AGAINST A PERSON
UNDER CUSTODIAL INVESTIGATION; PROHIBITION AGAINST SECRET OR SOLITARY DETENTION
PLACES OR OTHER SIMILAR FORMSOF DETENTION ARE PROHIBITED
SUFFICIENCY OF INFORMATION
People v. Liwanag, 363 SCRA 62 (2001)
People v. De la Cruz, 359 SCRA 667 (2002)
RIGHT TO BAIL
CONST., Art. III, §15; Writ of Amparo; Writ of Habeas Data; 2007 Rules on the Writ of Amparo; 2007 Rules on
the Writ of Habeas Data
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The Secretary of National Defense v. Manalo, G.R. No. 180906, 07 October 2008
Legal Article: Narvasa, A.R. Revisiting the Law on the Right to Silence and to Counsel, 61 Phil. L.J. 194 (1986)
Bill Attainder
People v. Ferrer, supra