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Farmers oppose Hacienda Luisita suit to stop SC ruling favoring them by Edison Reyes, News5 January 31, 2012 MANILA, Philippines – Farmer groups mounted a protest outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday as they filed a motion to clarify the SC’s November 22, 2011 resolution on the Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita. Earlier, they took their breakfast…

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February 2, 2012

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Farmers oppose Hacienda Luisita suit to stop SC ruling favoring them
by Edison Reyes, News5
January 31, 2012

MANILA, Philippines – Farmer groups mounted a protest outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday as they filed a motion to clarify the SC’s November 22, 2011 resolution on the Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita.

Earlier, they took their breakfast outside the court, sharing a meal of dried fish and eggs, in a bid to dramatize their miserable state.

In a 29-page petition, the farmers asked the SC to issue a final decision on the Hacienda Luisita case. The justices, the farmers said, should not in any way be swayed by alleged delaying tactics from the camp of the hacienda owners, the Cojuangco-Aquino family of the President.

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