(UPDATE) THE Supreme Court has denied a petition by jeepney operators and drivers to nullify the government's Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP), saying that the association that filed the case did not have the legal standing to do so, and that they should have gone to a lower court first.

In throwing out the petition filed by Bayyo Association Inc., the high court did not rule on the constitutionality of the government's program, which was at the heart of the complaint.

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