Should the provisions on the profit-sharing agreement in the Mining Act of 1995 be struck down as unconstitutional or should the law's corresponding department administrative order be amended instead? Supreme Court justices went back and forth on this during oral arguments…as the High Court took up consolidated petitions seeking for the nullification of sections…[of] the Mining Act of 1995. The petitioners…said the two provisions put the government at a financial disadvantage…[and that] the profit-sharing agreement does not take into account the "negative externalities" of the mining industry, such as displacement.