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San Francisco Chronicle - September 9, 2005
Wyatt Buchanan, wbuchanan@sfchronicle.com.
As part of the settlement, 35 blocks of the panel -- each 12 feet square -- will be permanently housed in San Francisco and available for display throughout the Bay Area, said Charles Thompson, attorney for the NAMES Project Foundation. The foundation and the quilt are located in Atlanta, and Jones agreed to help find a home for the blocks in the city, Thompson said. Jones, who lives in Palm Springs, did not return a phone call requesting comment on the settlement.
A San Francisco Superior Court Judge ruled in May and August that the foundation had grounds to fire Jones and that no employment agreement had been breached. There was no financial award in the settlement.
Jones, whose official title was founder, was fired in December 2003 and filed a lawsuit a month later claiming he was terminated because he wanted to take the quilt on a nationwide, election-year tour. He also said he had complained that the foundation's governing board lacked ethnic diversity and that the foundation reneged on a promise to reopen an office in San Francisco.
The foundation argued it had grounds to fire Jones because of Jones' demand to control the organization and his accusation that foundation President Edward Gatta was a weak leader.
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