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Supreme Court (File photo) MANILA - The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed a disbarment complaint against a lawyer involved in the corporate control battle of an information technology (IT) service contractor of the Land Transportation Office (LTO). In a 10-page resolution released Friday, the SC Second Division dismissed the complaint for disbarment against lawyer Gene Pilapil as the complaint "failed to sufficiently establish any cause for disciplinary action". Pilapil is the corporate secretary of IT company Stradcom Corp., which had been ravaged by an intra-corporate controversy between two groups under key officials Cezar Quiambao and Bonifacio Sumbilla. "Private persons, disgruntled opponents, in particular, may not be permitted to use the courts as vehicles through which to vent their rancor on members of the Bar," the SC ruled. Sumbilla filed the disbarment suit against Pilapil, who is under the Quiambao group, for allegedly harassing and threatening a law fir ....

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