SECOND DIVISION
[G.R. No. 240592. September 10, 2018.]
MAYBELINE F. VIRINA A.K.A. "MAYBELINE CRISTINO", petitioner, vs.ROBERTO REYES AND IOLCOS MARITIME AGENCIES FAR EAST, INC., respondent.
NOTICE
Sirs/Mesdames :
Please take notice that the Court, Second Division, issued a Resolution dated10 September 2018which reads as follows: ASTcaE
"G.R. No. 240592 (Maybeline F. Virina a.k.a. "Maybeline Cristino" v. Roberto Reyes and Iolcos Maritime Agencies Far East, Inc.)
After a judicious study of the case, the Court resolves to DENY the instant petition 1 and AFFIRM the May 7, 2018 Decision 2 and the July 10, 2018 Resolution 3 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. SP No. 154508 for failure of petitioner Maybeline F. Virina a.k.a. "Maybeline Cristino" (petitioner) to sufficiently show that the CA committed any reversible error in nullifying the voluntary inhibition of Presiding Judge Maria Victoria A. Soriano-Villadolid (Judge Soriano-Villadolid) in Civil Case No. 16-135732.
As correctly ruled by the CA, petitioner failed to sufficiently show a just or valid ground for inhibition as provided under Section 1 4 of Rule 137 of the Rules of Court. Since Judge Soriano-Villadolid inhibited only to dispel any doubt on the part of petitioner, and not for any just or valid reason, 5 the CA cannot be faulted in setting aside the inhibitory order.
SO ORDERED." (CARPIO, J., on official leave; PERLAS-BERNABE, J., designated as Acting Chairperson per S.O. 2592 dated September 5, 2018; REYES, J., JR., J., designated as Additional Member per S.O. No. 2587 dated August 28, 2018)
Very truly yours,
MA. LOURDES C. PERFECTODivision Clerk of CourtBy:(SGD.) TERESITA AQUINO TUAZONDeputy Division Clerk of Court
Footnotes
1.Rollo, pp. 13-23.
2.Id. at 30-44. Penned by Associate Justice Celia C. Librea-Leagogo with Associate Justices Samuel H. Gaerlan and Marie Christine Azcarraga-Jacob, concurring.
3.Id. at 45-46.
4. Section 1. Disqualification of judges. — No judge or judicial officer shall sit in any case in which he, or his wife or child, is pecuniarily interested as heir, legatee, creditor or otherwise, or in which he is related to either party within the sixth degree of consanguinity or affinity, or to counsel within the fourth degree, computed according to the rules of the civil law, or in which he has been executor, administrator, guardian, trustee or counsel, or in which he has presided in any inferior court when his ruling or decision is the subject of review, without the written consent of all parties in interest, signed by them and entered upon the record.
A judge may, in the exercise of his sound discretion, disqualify himself from sitting in a case, for just or valid reasons other than those mentioned above.
5. See rollo, pp. 40-41.