Appeals
In May 2006 Floro filed a motion to set aside judgment against him, which was denied. Floro subsequently filed three further motions that the evidence presented against him in the form of the psychiatric evaluations were inadmissible, and argued that he should not be dismissed for his beliefs. The court stressed that its decision had nothing to do with Floro's beliefs in dwendes or the validity of that belief, but permitting him to continue as a judge would be harmful to public trust in the judiciary as a guardian of the law.
Despite a directive to file no further appeals, Floro filed several more pleadings. On November 3, 2006, Floro filed his second appeal and a motion to clean the judiciary, accompanying the motion with a statement that he would use his three dwarfs to inflict sickness on the current judges, praying for his curse to work on every Friday. Floro claimed he was dismissed due to his belief in the paranormal.
On July 12, 2007, the Supreme Court justices ordered Floro to stop requesting a review of his case stating it had no reason to reverse itself on his dismissal and issued a warning that he can be held liable for contempt of court if he continued.
On February 3, 2010, Floro filed his own nomination for the post of Supreme Court chief justice, which then-incumbent Reynato Puno vacated upon his retirement on May 17. However, the high tribunal excluded him from the list of nominees on February 8, citing his earlier disbarment order. He nominated himself once more during the 2012 selection of a replacement chief justice for Renato Corona, but was left out along with three other people from the final list of nominees on July 7, 2012.
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