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The alleged 'sweetheart deal" involving the Agora market signed by City Mayor Dan Lim and a private business consortium simply refuses to die down.

Last Friday, Regional Trial Court Branch1 Presiding Judge Patsita Sarmiento-Gamutan issued an Order directing that the proceedings of the Agora case be continued to July 16 as well as the rest of the tentative settings set in open court during the hearing last March 19, 2010.

Likewise, it also brushed aside the defendants' argument that the complaint should be dismissed by reason of plaintiff Victor De la Serna's failure to indicate his MCLE compliance.

"It is untenable," the court said.

"Although lawyers by profession, plaintiffs did not sign the complaint as counsels but as parties who seek to enforce their rights as ordinary citizens. As such, the complaint is considered sufficient in form even if no MCLE compliance is indicated," the court concluded.

The dates for continued hearings are set on June 30, August 13 and 27, September 3, 10 and 24 and October 8, 2010, all at 9:00 o'clock in the morning. - Bohol Chronicle

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