1 Maximo Calalang v. A.D. Williams (G.R. No. 47800, December 2, 1940- Villamora 2A PDF

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Case Digest on Labor Law 1 which is a form of assessment on how well we understand the subject....

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Student Name: Michelle C. Llaneta-Villamora

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Complete Case Title Citation: Maximo Calalang v. A.D. Williams (G.R. No. 47800, December 2, 1940

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Statement of the Issue: Whether or not the Commonwealth Act No. 548 infringes the statutory precept of promoting social justice.

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Complainant’s Arguments: The petitioner argues that, because of the compliance of the rules and regulations, it is not permitted to pass and pick up passengers at the above-described locations to the detriment not only of their owners, but also of the riding public. It therefore infringes the constitutional principle of fostering social justice in order to ensure the well-being and economic stability of all citizens.

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Respondent’s Argument: The pursuit of social justice must not be done by violence, to any given category. Social justice is' neither dictatorship, nor despotism, nor atomism, nor anarchy, but the humanization of laws and the equalization of social and economic powers by the state in such a way that justice can at least be approximated in its logical and objectively secular form. Social justice means the promotion of the welfare of all people, the adoption by the government of measures designed to ensure the economic equality of all the relevant elements of society, through the preservation of a proper economic and social balance between the members of the group, constitutionally by the adoption of legally justifiable measures; Or extra-constitutionally, by exercising the powers underpinning the life of all governments on the time-honored concept of salus populi est suprema lex.

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Instruction Learned: Police power being one of the inherent powers of the State, the exercise thereof must be respected by its citizens. It is founded upon the aim of promoting public health, public safety, public moral and general safety of the people. Social Justice is the promotion of equality of every individual to economic, social and political rights and opportunities. The State with respect to police power and social justice gives primary and utmost consideration to the welfare and well-being of the greater number. Decision of the Court: The writ of prohibition was denied.

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Ratio: Social justice must be focused on the awareness of the need to do so.

Interdependence between separate and different units of society and security that should be equally and fairly extended to all groups as a combined force in our social and economic life, consistent with the fundamental and paramount objective of promoting the wellbeing, comfort and quiet of all persons, And to offer "the greatest good to the greatest number."...