In a resolution, the court’s 3rd Division chaired by Associate Justice Presbitero Velasco Jr. issued a Status Quo Ante Order (SQAO) against NGCP’s takeover of the property. It was covered by the expropriation proceedings before Palamos issued a writ of possession in favor of NGCP, a ruling the SSS wants reversed and nullified. The petitioners asked the high court to issue a SQAO and/or writ of preliminary mandatory injunction against the RTC’s orders, and dismiss NGCP’s petition before the lower court. The NGCP filed a complaint with the RTC on July 16, 2015 for expropriation of 42,218 square meters of the subject SSS property for the construction of a substation, which shall be known as the Pasay 230kV Substation Project. The lower court ruled in favor of the NGCP and issued the writ of possession on March 2, 2017.

Source: Manila Times July 10, 2017 10:52 UTC