Last Monday, Jose Miguel Arroyo, through his lawyer, asked the Makati Trial Court to dismiss the class suit we (more than 35 journalists he charged with libel plus more than 30 co-petitioners) filed against him describing it as as “plain political harassment”.
Arroyo’s lead counsel Ruy Alberto Rondain said the suit “is not even a class suit and is only a move by the plaintiffs to vindicate personal and individual interests, albeit imagined.”
Arroyo’s spokesman Jesus Santos said the case is defective in nature and should be dismissed.