Case Digest: Atlas Fertilizer Corp vs DAR GR No 97855
Case Digest: Atlas Fertilizer Corp vs DAR GR No 97855 June 19, 1997 Facts: This is a consolidated case questioning the constitutionality Sections 3 (b), 11, 13, 16 (d), 17 and 32 of RA 6657. That the said provision extends agrarian reform to aquaculture lands even as Sec. 4 of Art. XIII of the Constitution limits agrarian reform only to agricultural lands. The said provisions being violative of the equal protection clause of the Constitution by similarly treating of aquaculture and agriculture lands when they are differently situated. That the said provisions distort employment benefits and burdens in favor of aquaculture employees and against other industrial workers even as Section 1 and 3 of Art. XIII of the Constitution mandates the St...