THE Court of Appeals junked an appeal filed by the University of the Philippines (UP) seeking exemption from paying more than P19 million worth of registration fees in a contract it signed with a private property developer.

In a 12-page decision penned by Associate Justice Leoncia Real-Dimagiba and concurred by Associate Justices Rosmari Caran-dang and Ricardo Rosario, the CA Fifth Division denied for lack of merit the petition for certiorari filed by the UP management assailing the letter/ ruling dated February 4, 2010 issued by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) denying the former’s appeal from the verdict of the Land Registration Authority (LRA).

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