VII.

BILL OF RIGHTS

A. Fundamental Powers of the State (Police Power, Eminent Domain, and Taxation)
a. Concept, Application, and Limits
i. Police Power

1. MMDA v. Bel-Air Village Association, Inc.

FACTS:

HELD:

2. Ermita-Malate Hotel and Motel Operators v. Mayor of Manila

3. Churchill v. Rafferty
4. Binay v. Domingo
5. Magtaja v. Price Properties
6. Beltran v. Secretary of Health
7. ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation v. PMSI
8. American Inter-Fashion Corporation v. Office of the President
9. Crespo v. Provincial Board
10. Executive Secretary v. CA
11. Philippine Blooming Mills Employees v. Philippine Blooming Mills Co.
12. Star Paper v. Simbol

ii. Eminent Domain

b. Requests for Valid Exercise
c. Similarities and Differences
d. Delegation
B. Private Acts and the Bill of Rights
C. Due Process – The Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property
a. Relativity of Due Process
b. Procedural and Substantive Due Process

13. Banco Espanol v. Palanca

14. Secretary v. Judge Lantion
15. Gonzales v. NLRC
16. People v. Nazario
17. Estrada v. Sandiganbayan
18. Romualdez v. COMELEC
19. Fabella v. CA
20. Republic v. Pilipinas Shell
21. Pefianco v. Moral
22. Philcomsat v. Alcuaz
23. Lao Gi v. CA
24. Velasco v. Mayor Villegas
25. White Light Corp. v. City of Manila
26. Ynot v. IAC

c. Constitutional and Statutory Due Process

d. Hierarchy of Rights
e. Judicial Standards of Review
f. Void-for-Vagueness Doctrine
D. Equal Protection
a. Concept
b. Requisites for Valid Classification

27. People v. Cayat

28. Tiu v. CA
29. Serrano v. Gallant Maritime
30. Biraogo v. Truth Commission

c. Standards of Judicial Review

i. Rational Basis Test
ii. Strict Scrutiny Test
iii. Intermediate Scrutiny Test

E. Searches and Seizures

a. Concept
b. Warrant Requirements; Requisites
c. Warrantless Searches
d. Warrantless Arrests
e. Administrative Arrests
f. Drug, Alcohol, and Blood Tests
F. Privacy of Communications and Correspondence
a. Private and Public Communications
b. Intrusion, when allowed
c. Writ of Habeas Data
G. Freedom of Expression
a. Concept and Scope
i. Prior Restraint (censorship)

31. Burgos v. Chief of Staff

32. Corro v. Lising
33. Chavez v. Gonzales
34. Near v. Minnesota
35. National Press Club v. COMELEC
36. Adiong v. COMELEC
37. ABS-CBN v. COMELEC
38. SWS v. COMELEC
39. Iglesia ni Kristo v. CA

ii. Subsequent Punishment

40. Salonga v. Pano
41. People v. Perez
42. Espiritu v. General Lim

b. Content-Based and Content-Neutral Regulations

i. Tests
ii. Applications
c. Facial Challenges and the Overbreadth Doctrine
d. Tests
e. State Regulation of Different Types of Mass Media
f. Commercial Speech

43. Pharmaceutical v. Secretary of Health

a. Private v. Government Speech

b. Heckler’s Veto

H. Freedom of Religion

44. Aglipay v. Ruiz

45. Manosca v. CA
46. Garces v. Estenzo
47. Canete v. CA
48. Austria v. NLRC
49. Islamic Da-wah Council v. Executive Secretary
50. Gerona v. Secretary of Education
51. Ebralinag v. Division
52. Estrada v. Escritor
53. Ang Ladlad v. COMELEC

a. Non-Establishment Clause
i. Concept and Basis
ii. Acts Permitted and Not Permitted by the Clause
iii. Test

b. Free Exercise Clause

54. Cantwell v. Connecticut

c. Tests
i. Clear and Present Danger Test
ii. Compelling State Interest Test
iii. Conscientious Objector Test

I. Liberty of Abode and Freedom of Movement

 a. Limitations
b. Right to Travel

55. Office of Administrative Services v. Judge Macarine

i. Watch-list and hold departure orders

J. Right to Information
a. Limitations

56. Chavez v. PCGG

b. Publication of laws and regulations

c. Access to court records
d. Right to Information relative to:
i. Government Contract Negotiations
ii. Diplomatic Negotiations
K. Right of Association

57. Bel-Air Village Association v. Dionisio

L. Eminent Domain
a. Concept

58. Barlin v. Ramirez

59. Republic v. Vda. De Castellvi
60. ABS-CBN v. PMSI

b. Public Use

61. Heirs of Moreno v. Mactan-Cebu

62. Mactan-Cebu v. Lozada

c. Just Compensation

63. Municipality of Makati v. CA

64. MIAA v. Rodriguez

i. Determination
ii. Effect of Delay
d. Abandonment of Intended Use and Right of Repurchase
e. Miscellaneous Application
M. Contract Clause

65. Leca Realty v. Manuela Corporation

66. Kuwait Airways v. PAL
N. Legal assistance and free access to courts

67. Cabangis v. Almeda

68. Acar v. Rosal

O. Right of Suspects
a. Availability
b. Requisites
c. Waiver
P. Rights of the Accused
a. Criminal Due Process
b. Bail
c. Presumption of Innocence
d. Right to be Heard
e. Assistance of Counsel
f. Right to be Informed
g. Right to Speedy, Impartial, and Public Trial
h. Right of Confrontation
i. Compulsory Process
j. Trials in Absentia