The Supreme Court has denied with finality the appeal of dismissed Cadet 1st Class Aldrin Jeff Cudia for release of his diploma and transcript of records from the Philippine Military Academy.
During their en banc session, SC justices resolved to deny the third appeal filed by Cudia’s parents last September.
“The Court denied with finality the motion [it being his third] and considered the case closed and terminated,” SC spokesman Theodore Te said, in a media briefing.
In their appeal coursed through Public Attorney’s Office chief Persida Rueda-Acosta, Cudia’s parents sought the release of the cadet’s diploma or certificate of completion of academic requirements and transcript of records.
They had asked the SC to order the PMA to release the requirements when he was supposed to enrol in the University of the Philippines College of Law after passing the entrance exam.
The high court already dismissed his petition with finality last April, but Cudia’s camp insisted on the appeal.
Petitioners invoked humanitarian consideration and revealed that Cudia’s father Renato has already been bedridden after suffering a stroke last January. They explained that the SC ruling allowing Senator Juan Ponce Enrile to post bail in a plunder case over humanitarian consideration could be a “supervening event” in Cudia’s case.
But petitioners no longer appealed the high court’s ruling that affirmed PMA’s dismissal order against Cudia.
In his original petition, Cudia had asked the SC to order his inclusion in the list of graduating cadets in their Siklab Diwa batch and give him the honors and awards he deserves.
Lastly, he pleaded the high court to commission him “as the new ensign of the Philippine Navy if all the material requirements for his baccalaureate degree have been completed in time for 16 March 2014 Commencement exercises.”
However, in his latest pleading, Cudia no longer asked for his reinstatement in the PMA and just asked for release of his diploma and transcript of records.