THE Supreme Court junked the petition of a lawmaker for the government to repossess a 41-hectare reclaimed land in Manila Bay because he did not have the legal personality to file the case.

In a seven-page en banc resolution, dated Dec.10, 2019, which lawyer Edgar Aricheta, clerk of court signed, the high court said that 1-Sagip party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta was not the proper party to bring the case to its attention by simply claiming that the property, allegedly sold to the Manila Bay Development Corp. (MBDC), a private firm, was public domain.