The document defines judicial review as the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws, treaties, ordinances, etc. unconstitutional. It outlines the requisites for judicial review, which include an actual case, a question that is ripe for adjudication, standing to challenge the act, and raising the question of constitutionality at the earliest opportunity. The document also defines the scope of judicial power, noting it is the authority to settle disputes involving legally enforceable rights. Judicial power includes the duty to settle actual controversies and determine abuse of discretion by branches of government.
The document defines judicial review as the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws, treaties, ordinances, etc. unconstitutional. It outlines the requisites for judicial review, which include an actual case, a question that is ripe for adjudication, standing to challenge the act, and raising the question of constitutionality at the earliest opportunity. The document also defines the scope of judicial power, noting it is the authority to settle disputes involving legally enforceable rights. Judicial power includes the duty to settle actual controversies and determine abuse of discretion by branches of government.
The document defines judicial review as the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws, treaties, ordinances, etc. unconstitutional. It outlines the requisites for judicial review, which include an actual case, a question that is ripe for adjudication, standing to challenge the act, and raising the question of constitutionality at the earliest opportunity. The document also defines the scope of judicial power, noting it is the authority to settle disputes involving legally enforceable rights. Judicial power includes the duty to settle actual controversies and determine abuse of discretion by branches of government.
The document defines judicial review as the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws, treaties, ordinances, etc. unconstitutional. It outlines the requisites for judicial review, which include an actual case, a question that is ripe for adjudication, standing to challenge the act, and raising the question of constitutionality at the earliest opportunity. The document also defines the scope of judicial power, noting it is the authority to settle disputes involving legally enforceable rights. Judicial power includes the duty to settle actual controversies and determine abuse of discretion by branches of government.
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Resolution of the issue of constitutionality is unavoidable or is the
JUDICIAL REVIEW very lis mota. Definition
1. Judicial Review is the power of the SC to declare a law, treaty, Article 8, section 4, paragraph 2 ordinance etc. unconstitutional. (2) All cases involving the constitutionality of a treaty, international 2. Lower courts may also exercise the power of judicial review, or executive agreement, or law, which shall be heard by the Supreme Court en banc, and all other cases which under the subject to the appellate jurisdiction of the SC. Rules of Court are required to be heard en banc, including those involving the constitutionality, application, or 3. Only SC decisions are precedent, and thus, only SC decisions are operation of presidential decrees, proclamations, orders, binding on all. instructions, ordinances, and other regulations, shall be decided with the concurrence of a majority of the Members who actually took part in the deliberations on the issues in Requisites Code: [A R S Co R] the case and voted thereon. 1. An ACTUAL CASE calling for the exercise of judicial power
2. The question involved must be RIPE FOR ADJUDICATION, i.e.
the government act must have had an adverse effect on the person challenging it.
3. The person challenging the governmental act must have
STANDING, i.e. a personal and substantial interest in the case such that he has sustained, or will sustain, direct injury as a result of its enforcement. Sec. 1. JUDICIAL POWER
4. The question of Constitutionality must be raised in the first Scope:
instance, or at the earliest opportunity. 1. Judicial power is the authority to settle justiciable controversies or 7. Judicial power includes: disputes involving rights that are enforceable and demandable before 1. The duty of the courts to settle actual controversies the courts of justice or the redress of wrongs for violations of such involving rights which are legally demandable and rights. enforceable; and 2. Vested in the Supreme Court and such lower courts as may be 1. To determine whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of established by law. jurisdiction on the part of any branch or 3. Since the courts are given judicial power and nothing more, instrumentality of the government. courts may neither attempt to assume or be compelled to perform non- judicial functions. They may not be charged with administrative Political Questions: functions except when reasonably incidental to the fulfillment of their duties. 1. A political question is one the resolution of which has been vested by the Constitution exclusively in either the people, in the 4. In order that courts may exercise this power, there must exist the exercise of their sovereign capacity, or in which full discretionary following: authority has been delegated to a co-equal branch of the Government. 1. An actual controversy with legally demandable and 2. Thus, while courts can determine questions of legality with respect enforceable rights; 2. Involving real parties in interest; to governmental action, they cannot review government policy and 3. The exercise of such power will bind the parties by virtue of the wisdom thereof, for these questions have been vested by the the courts application of existing laws. Constitution in the Executive and Legislative Departments.
5. Judicial power cannot be exercised in vacuum. Without any laws
Article 8 from which rights arise and which are violated, there can be no recourse to the courts. Section 1. The judicial power shall be vested in one Supreme 6. The courts cannot be asked for advisory opinions. Court and in such lower courts as may be established by law. Judicial power includes the duty of the courts of justice to settle actual controversies involving rights which are legally demandable and enforceable, and to determine whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part of any branch or instrumentality of the Government.
Secretary of Labor v. A. Michael Desisto, The Desisto Schools, Inc., Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Labor v. A. Michael Desisto, 929 F.2d 789, 1st Cir. (1991)
