Vicente Abad Santos [SEP] position held
Vicente Abad Santos
Vicente Abad Santos ( : 12 July 1916 – 30 December 1993) was a Filipino Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
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He was born in San Fernando, Pampanga, a city in Central Luzon. Two paternal uncles were prominent Filipinos during the American period, Chief Justice José Abad Santos, and his brother Pedro, a leading socialist leader during the Commonwealth era.
Santos earned his Bachelor's degree and degree in law at the University of the Philippines in Manila before
constitutionality of the Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980. He also dissented in policies which would seem to curtail the basic liberties of people. For a time, Teehankee and Justice Cecilia Muñoz-Palma would make dissents together. After Muñoz-Palma's retirement, he was joined by Associate Justice Vicente Abad Santos in making dissents.
It was this activism that made Marcos 'by-pass' him twice for the position of Chief Justice (the most senior associate justice is most likely to succeed after the retirement of the Chief Justice