Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona (October 15, 1948 – April 29, 2016) was a Filipino judge who was the 23rd chief justice of the Philippines from 2010 to 2012. He served as an associate justice after being appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on April 9, 2002, and later as Chief Justice on May 12, 2010, upon the retirement of Chief Justice Reynato Puno. Corona was previously a law professor, private law practitioner and member of the Cabinet under former presidents Fidel V. Ramos and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo before being appointed to the high tribunal. On July 5, 2011, the Supreme Court, headed by Corona, issued a landmark decision on the Hacienda Luisita case, wherein, under agrarian reform laws, the Court upheld both the distribution of land to the hacienda's farm workers and the revocation of the SDO agreement forged in 1989. Hacienda Luisita is a plantation that was controlled by the then incumbent President Benigno Cojuangco Aquino III's family. The control and ownership of the plantation had been the center of a decades-long legal battle between the farmers and the Cojuangcos. The Central Bank and GSIS had endorsed the loans that allowed Jose Cojuangco to take control of the Hacienda in 1957, on the condition that the Hacienda was to be distributed eventually to the farmers under then President Magsaysay's social justice program. The Cojuangco group was given a ten-year window to distribute the lands to the farmers as stipulated. But the Cojuangco-Aquinos refused to honor their legal obligation to distribute the land. The Supreme Court also ordered that the date of the "taking" be fixed at November 21, 1989 rather than 2011, as the Aquinos argued, a ruling which cost the Aquinos billions of pesos (in just compensation). The Cojuangco-Aquinos, a very powerful political family, finally "lost" the land that was never theirs. Allies of President Benigno Aquino III pursued Corona's impeachment. A few months later, on December 12, 2011, the Chief Justice was impeached by the House of Representatives. The impeachment and the Senate's guilty verdict were later described to be part of Aquino's revenge against the Chief Justice for the Supreme Court's Hacienda Luisita decision, a move that critics said was meant to have a "chilling effect" on anyone else who dared to oppose the administration and its allies. The Aquino administration gave the senator-judges between P50 to P100 million (fifty to one hundred million pesos)