THE Cebu City Legal Office (CLO) wants the judge who issued the temporary restraining order (TRO) against the dismissal of the previous board of directors of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) to inhibit from the case.
The CLO filed the motion during the hearing conducted in Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 7 Judge James Stewart Ramon Himalaloan’s sala on Thursday, March 18, 2021, in which the parties were supposed to argue their case.
City Attorney Rey Gealon said they want the case raffled to another court branch.
“We are most respectfully praying for the Honorable Presiding Judge to voluntarily inhibit from further handling this case and have the same raffled to another branch of the court to resolve our Motion for Reconsideration and recall of the TRO dated 15 March 2021 as well as resolve our Motion To Dismiss for lack of cause of action and lack of jurisdiction,” Gealon said in a statement.