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	GR NO. 142619 2005-09-13	MUNICIPALITY OF TAGUIG v. CA
Forum shopping is contumacious, as well as an act of malpractice that is proscribed and condemned as trifling with the courts and abusive of their processes.[18] It is improper conduct that degrades the administration of justice. As held in Biñan Steel Corporation vs. Court of Appeals,[19] thus:Such contemptuous act is penalized by the summary dismissal of both actions as mandated by paragraph 17 of the Interim Rules and Guidelines issued by this Court on January 11, 1983 and Supreme Court Circular No. 28-91, to wit:
	GR No. 144282 2004-06-08	SK REALTY v. JOHNNY KH UY SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J.
In Biñan Steel Corporation vs. Court of Appeals,[5] we held:"A party is guilty of forum-shopping where he repetitively availed of several judicial remedies in different courts, simultaneously or successively, all substantially founded on the same transactions and the same essential facts and circumstances, and all raising substantially the same issues either pending in, or already resolved adversely by some other court." As we held in Republic of the Philippines vs. Carmel Development, Inc., respondent's act of "willful and deliberate forum-shopping is a ground for summary dismissal of the case, and constitutes direct contempt of court." [6]