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Under RA 7662, the Legal Education Board (LEB) is empowered to set standards for legal education and to accredit law schools for admission to the practice of law. A law school, AUCL (Aurora University College of Law), has never been accredited by the LEB, but it has issued JD degrees since 1995. A graduate, Marco Dizon, earned his JD from AUCL in 2021 and applied to sit for the Bar in 2022. As of 2022, the Supreme Court has not recognized AUCL's diploma for Bar eligibility. AUCL later obtained LEB accreditation in 2024. (a) Identify the controlling doctrine and RA 7662 rule that governs eligibility to sit for the Bar when the law school is not LEB-accredited at the time of graduation. (b) Apply the rule to Marco's situation: Is he eligible to take the Bar in 2022? (c) If AUCL obtains LEB accreditation in 2024, discuss whether Marco's eligibility could be retroactively cured or remains limited by the 2022 status.