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San Francisco Chronicle - June 2, 2005
Bob Egelko
Tuesday's ruling by San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren allows Cleve Jones to go to trial in September in his suit against the Atlanta- based Names Project Foundation.
The 50-ton, 40,000-panel quilt was first sewn in San Francisco in 1987 and was moved in 2001 to Atlanta, where it is kept in a warehouse. Jones, who had been the project's spokesman for more than 15 years, said in his suit that he was fired in September 2003 because he wanted to take the quilt on a nationwide, election-year tour, for which he had lined up $1 million in corporate pledges. He also said he had complained that the foundation lacked diversity on its governing board and reneged on a promise to reopen an office in San Francisco.
Warren said the foundation had grounds to fire Jones because of his demand to control the organization and his accusation that foundation President Edward Gatta was a weak leader. But the judge said a jury should be allowed to decide whether the foundation had treated Jones outrageously and intentionally caused him emotional harm.
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