Supreme Court: Motel "Short Time" is ok

[Motownkid]

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Motel 'short time' stays, says SC



Motels in Manila and their patrons have reason to celebrate two weeks before Valentine’s Day.

The Supreme Court yesterday declared as unconstitutional a Manila city ordinance banning “short time” admission in motels, saying it violates the rights of both motel operators and their clients – especially married couples.

“The ordinance needlessly restrains the operation of the businesses of petitioners as well as restricting the rights of their patrons without sufficient justification. The Ordinance rashly equates wash rates and renting out a room more than twice a day with immorality without accommodating innocuous intentions,” stated the High Court in a decision penned by Associate Justice Dante Tinga.

The SC reversed an earlier decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) and ruled that City Ordinance 7774, which was signed by Mayor Alfredo Lim during his previous term on Dec. 3, 1992, violated constitutional guarantees on personal freedom.

The SC classified the ordinance as a police measure that had arbitrarily intruded private rights, likening it to an earlier junked resolution of the Commission on Elections requiring newspapers to donate advertising space to candidates.

According to the high tribunal, the ordinance was created to minimize if not eliminate the use of motels in crimes involving illicit s3x, prostitution or illegal drug use.

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yey

[istoryaaah]

hahaha... mao mao... dapat hasta rates ilang paubsan... lol

[wng]

Mao jud ning mga uber-moral kunohay... kusog kaayo manghilabot. The laws in the Philippines can only be used to suppress ILLEGAL activities... Illegal is not the same as immoral. And whose morality are we talking about? Arang2 na lang gani nang mag motel pa, I heard nga sa Cebu, carton na lang ang gigamit. Yes, prostitution is illegal, and "public indecency" na ba ni? Pero ayaw tawon ipa ban sa government officials ang carton ha! Most people gagamit ug carton for other purposes...

[YJOB]

nganong hilabtan pa man jud na ba?
unahon na lang unta na nila gukod illegal drugs

[pop_cola]

sakto sakto... d na lng na dapat paki alaman ang way labot. ma among sad ta ana ilang kabuang.

[ratilaboto]

Onahon ang pagkaon ug trabaho.

[nirdle_phogi]

sakto sakto... d na lng na dapat paki alaman ang way labot. ma among sad ta ana ilang kabuang.

hahah.. animel.. naglisud pa ta, ila pa jud tangtangon ang short time...

[Metz]

maysad wa na dayon kay lisod ning sa apartment dalhon permi hahaha

[leo_trams]

bisan ug i-ban pa na ang short time...
basta biga na gani...bisan ug walay motel short time...padaplin lang ug gamay dinha sa ngitngit....short time na!

mobalhin ra gihapon sa mga boarding houses kung wala nay Motel short time. hehehehe


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[darkdruid]

hahay... mura baya pud ug wala mag short time ning mga politicians... if i know... pasikat lang.