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San Francisco Chronicle - November 22, 2005
Wyatt Buchanan, wbuchanan@sfchronicle.com.
The Names Project Foundation, the Atlanta organization that houses the quilt, and Cleve Jones, who started the quilt, had agreed verbally in September on a settlement of their two-year conflict. Under that pact, 35 blocks of the quilt would have returned for display in San Francisco, and Jones would have nominated some candidates for the board of directors of the foundation.
Four days before Saturday's settlement deadline, talks over a written version of the settlement broke down, and the case went back on the calendar in San Francisco Superior Court, said Jones' attorney, Angela Alioto.
Alioto said the Names Foundation did not want Jones to have the very first panel of the quilt, which he made in honor of his boyfriend, and it declined to put on its Web site a link to a San Francisco organization Jones plans to start. It also said it wanted to charge rent and transportation costs for the panels.
Foundation attorney Charles Thompson of San Francisco would not comment on the settlement terms but said demands Jones was making were the sticking point.
"In our view they made demands for things the agreement did not provide for," Thompson said.
A trial is set in July.
Alioto said she planned to file a motion in San Francisco Superior Court this week to enforce the settlement based on a transcript of the talks between Jones and the foundation.
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