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2007-07-17 |
CHICO-NAZARIO, J. |
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| In a number of cases,[41] the Court upheld the standing of citizens who filed suits, wherein the "transcendental importance" of the constitutional question justified the granting of relief. In spite of these rulings, the Court, in Domingo v. Carague,[42] dismissed the petition when petitioners therein failed to show any present substantial interest. It demonstrated how even in the cases in which the Court declared that the matter of the case was of transcendental importance, the petitioners must be able to assert substantial interest. Present substantial interest, which will enable a party to question the validity of the law, requires that a party sustained or will sustain direct injury as a result of its enforcement.[43] It is distinguished from a mere expectancy or future, contingent, subordinate, or inconsequential interest.[44] | |||||