{"id":260765,"date":"2020-07-07T21:43:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T01:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=260765"},"modified":"2020-07-07T21:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T01:43:58","slug":"sc-affirms-dismissal-of-enrile-libel-suit-vs-columnist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/07\/sc-affirms-dismissal-of-enrile-libel-suit-vs-columnist\/","title":{"rendered":"SC affirms dismissal of Enrile libel suit vs. columnist"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_188727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188727\" style=\"width: 1800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/478612_10150767938343783_2012944998_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-188727 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/478612_10150767938343783_2012944998_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/478612_10150767938343783_2012944998_o.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/478612_10150767938343783_2012944998_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/478612_10150767938343783_2012944998_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/478612_10150767938343783_2012944998_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-188727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrile&#8217;s original libel suit was dismissed by the Pasay City Regional Trial Court, prompting Enrile to take the case to the CA in 2014. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/JuanPonceEnrile\/photos\/rpp.122288973782\/10150767938343783\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/JuanPonceEnrile\/\">Juan Ponce Enrile\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Supreme Court (SC) upheld the dismissal of a libel case filed by former senator Juan Ponce Enrile against a newspaper columnist in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In a resolution dated February 19 and released on Tuesday, the SC through First Division Clerk of Court Librada Buena upheld an earlier decision of the Court of Appeals (CA), junking Enrile&#8217;s petition for failure &#8220;to sufficiently show that the Court of Appeals committed any reversible error in the challenged decision and resolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Enrile&#8217;s original libel suit was dismissed by the Pasay City Regional Trial Court, prompting Enrile to take the case to the CA in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Enrile, who last served as a senator from June 20, 2004 to June 30, 2016, sued newspaper columnist Yolanda &#8220;Yoly&#8221; Villanueva-Ong over an article titled &#8220;Like father, like son?&#8221; published on the Philippine Star on Oct. 26, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The former senator earlier described the report as malicious and aimed at tarnishing his reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Enrile&#8217;s son, then Cagayan Rep. Juan Castaner Ponce Enrile, popularly known as Jack Enrile, was a candidate who lost in the 2013 senatorial elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Supreme Court (SC) upheld the dismissal of a libel case filed by former senator Juan Ponce Enrile against &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":188727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260766,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260765\/revisions\/260766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}