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concurrence of at least three such Members, is a decision or resolution of the Supreme Court (Sec
4 (3), Article VIII, 1987 Constitution.
only to compel the doing of an act specifically enjoined by law as a duty. Here, there is no law that
mandates the respondents LTFRB and the DOTC to order owners of motor vehicles to use CNG.
Mandamus will not generally lie from one branch of government to a coordinate branch, for the
obvious reason that neither is inferior to the other.
It appears that more properly, the legislature should provide first the specific statutory remedy to
the complex environmental problems bared by herein petitioners before any judicial recourse by
mandamus is taken.