Vic Sotto sues Darryl Yap and the court grants his writ of habeas data petition.
Veteran actor-TV host Vic Sotto filed a habeas data petition which was granted by the court after it was filed on January 7.
Vic Sotto has filed 19 counts of cyber libel against Pepsi Paloma movie director Darryl Yap. This happened before the Muntinlupa City Office of the City Prosecutor on Thursday, January 9 stemming from the scene where his name was clearly mentioned to have done something to the late 80s actress.
In the case Sotto filed against Yap, he was seeking more than Php 30 million in damages for alleged “defamatory statements”. The total damages were Php 35 million and according to the New Civil Code, exemplary damages as those imposed “by way of example or correction for the public good” beyond standard compensation.
Php 20 million of the amount was for moral damages where someone’s act has caused “physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation, or similar harm” to another.
Before the filing, on January 7, the camp of Sotto filed a petition for the issuance of the writ of habeas data. This is “a remedy available to any person whose right to privacy in life, liberty or security is violated or threatened by an unlawful act or omission of a public official or employee, or of a private individual or entity engaged in the gathering, collecting or storing of data or information regarding the person, family, home, and correspondence of the aggrieved party”.
In an order on January 9, the court granted the said petition and ordered Yap to make a response within five days. Sotto’s petition was found “sufficient in form and substance”.
As of now, the camp of Sotto has not received a copy of the writ yet. It was just an order and they are still waiting for it in hopes that their petition which included the taking down of not just a particular scene but of the whole movie will be included.
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