(Eagle News) — A private individual on Friday, April 20, urged Solicitor General Jose Calida to file a quo warranto petition against Associate Justice Teresita de Castro.
In a four-page letter, Jocelyn Marie Acosta said De Castro also “lacked integrity” as she failed to submit the 39 Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth she was “bound to submit” in her stint in government since 1973.
She said De Castro only submitted 15 SALNs when she applied for the Chief Justice post in 2012.
“Following the logic employed by Mallari, Justice De Castro and yourself, Justice De Castro’s non-submission of all her SALNs since 1973 shows that she also has employed deception in claiming that she complied with the SALN requirement, thereby lacking integrity and is not qualified to sit as a Justice of the Supreme Court,” she said.
It was lawyer Eligio Mallari who asked Calida to initiate the quo warranto petition against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno for her alleged failure to submit her complete SALNs over a 20-year stint as a professor at the University of Philippines College of Law.
“I anticipate that you would act with the same zeal as you did when you received the letter of Atty. Mallari,” Acosta said.