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Basil Maguigad
DOLE vs. ESTEVA the subject of a labor case, in which petitioner was
G.R. NO. 161115, November 30, 2006, CHICO-NAZARIO J., accused of preventing the regularization of such
workers.
Before this Court is a Petition for Review on Certiorari under
Rule 45 of the revised Rules of Civil Procedure seeking the ISSUE(S)
reversal of the Decision, dated 20 May 2002, and the
Amended Decision, dated 27 November 2003, both Whether or not the court of appeals was correct when it
rendered by the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 63405, made its own factual findings and disregarded the
which declared herein petitioner Dole Philippines, Inc. as factual findings of the labor arbiter and the NLRC.
the employer of herein respondents, Medel Esteva and 86
others; found petitioner guilty of illegal dismissal; and Whether or not CAMPCO was a mere labor-only
ordered petitioner to reinstate respondents to their former contractor.
positions and to pay the latter backwages. RULING