{"id":"2","facts":"GR No L-63915 \nApril 24, 1985\n\nPetitioners: lorenzo tanyada\nRespondent: Juan Tuvera\n\npetitioners seek a writ of mandamus to compel respondents public officials to publish, and\/or cause the publication in the Official Gazette of various presidential decrees, letters of instructions, general orders, proclamations, executive orders, letter of implementation and administrative orders.\n\nRespondents, through the Solicitor General, would have this case dismissed on the grounds: \n - that petitioners have no legal personality or standing to bring the instant petition. because the petitioners are not personally and directly affected or prejudiced by the alleged non-publication of the presidential issuances and they are not being \"aggrieved parties\"\n - that publication in the Official Gazette is not a requirement for the effectivity of laws when effectivity date is provided.\n\n\nIssues:\n - petitioner has no legal standing due to the absence of showing  directly or personally affected or prejudiced.  petitioner is not being aggrieved parties \n - publication in the official gazette is not a requirement for effectivity of laws","subject":"Civil Law","provision":"1973 Constitutional law\n - Articl 4 Section 6. The right of the people to information on matters of public concern shall be recognized. Access to official records, and to documents and papers pertaining to official acts, transactions, or decisions, shall be afforded the citizen subject to such limitations as may be provided by law\n\nCivil law\n - article 2 civil code\n\nCommonwealth Act 638 provides that laws shall be published in the Official Gazette. Such publication is important because there shall be no basis for the application of the Latin maxim, \u201cignoratia legis non excusat\u201d","type":null,"jurisprudence":"tanada vs tuvera","supereme_court_judgement":"Yes, the petitioner has legal standing\n - when the question is one of public right and the object of the mandamus is to procure the enforcement of a public duty, the people are regarded as the real party in interest and the relator at whose instigation the proceedings are instituted need not show that he has any legal or special interest in the result, it being sufficient to show that he is a citizen and as such interested in the execution of the laws"}