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(Peralta and Leonen)
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Peralta said in an online media briefing on Friday, October 23, 2020:
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"The Supreme Court would like all election cases to be terminated before the end of the term [of Congress]. That is the policy of the Court. Everybody is aware of that. 
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"It would still be better, I told them, that cases should be decided before the filing of certificates of candidacy which is in October 2021."
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Robredo won the 2016 vice presidential race with 14,418,817 votes or 263,473 more than Marcos’ 14,155,344 votes.
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Meanwhile, legal professionals from the Marcos camp on Sunday, October 25, 2020, said the Supreme Court applied a double standard when it fined a Court of Appeals associate justice a year's pay for inefficiency, but failed to discipline one of its own who had 82 unresolved cases, including Marcos's election protest.
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In a recent en banc decision, the Court found CA Associate Justice Marilyn B. Lagura-Yap guilty of gross inefficiency when she failed to decide on 160 cases during her stint as presiding judge of Mandaue City Regional Trial Court Branch 28.
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But sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said it was unfair to penalize Yap but not act on Associate Justice Marvic Mario Victor Leonen, one of the senior justices of the 15-member bench.
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Court records show that Leonen topped the list of justices with a number of pending cases. These include 37 cases that are ready for decision but remain unresolved, and 45 cases which are still awaiting other pleadings to be submitted.
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Peralta now wants BBM's case resolved?