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* FACTS:
HISTORY
A. Procedural Issues
1.) Whether or not (WON) the issues raised in the
consolidated petitions involve an actual and
justiciable controversy
2.) WON the issues raised in the consolidated
petitions are matters of policy subject to
judicial review
3.) WON petitioners have legal standing to sue
4.) WON the 1994 Decision of the Supreme Court
(the Court) on Philippine Constitution Association
v. Enriquez (Philconsa) and the 2012 Decision of
the Court on Lawyers Against Monopoly and
Poverty v. Secretary of Budget and
Management (LAMP) bar the re-litigation of the
issue of constitutionality of the “pork barrel
system” under the principles of res
judicata and stare decisis
B. Substantive Issues on the “Congressional
Pork Barrel”