Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:
LAT, AP and OCR on yet another black eye for UCI: How a Liver Unit Failed. Heads need to roll, but we're sure to pay for some educrat's incompetence. An LAT followup: UC Irvine Could Be Liable Again. In part,
The university paid nearly $20 million to settle claims related to the UCI fertility clinic scandal of the mid-1990s, in which doctors stole patients' eggs and implanted them in infertile women. UCI also has paid at least $375,000 since 1999 to resolve claims stemming from its donated cadaver program. Walter G. Koontz, a Newport Beach attorney who represented more than a dozen couples in the fertility scandal, said the case for plaintiffs in the current controversy is strengthened by the federal report that outlined deficiencies in the UCI liver transplant program. "If the feds come in and decide to shut you down, as a general rule, that is going to give some significant teeth to civil liability," Koontz said.
Bull: 'This was a failure to be successful. This is not an episode of wrongdoing.' -– Dr. Michael Drake, UCI Chancellor (quote per the OCR).
Causing sick people in need of transplants to not know of organ availability (and turning them down when offered) isn't only wrongdoing; you may find it's criminal. Don't make the further mistake of trying to cover this up since you're going get get sued -- big time.
LAT and OCR: Four in O.C. Accused of Holding Illegal Immigrants for Ransom. That's more like it.
DP: Condos by JWA proposed. Manhattanization makes sense.
DP: KOCE-TV appeal set to begin.
OCR: Police academy plans serious business. In part,
The new facility will be built on 15 acres of the closed (Tustin) Marine base by the Rancho Santiago district, using money from $337 million in bonds passed by the district's voters in 2002 to improve the district's two colleges: Santa Ana and Santiago Canyon.
OCR: Fullerton district reaches out to ACLU. ACLU says go pound sand on laptop issue.
OCR: Toll-road opponents get boost. Surfers link up with environmentalpests. And there's this related piece from the OC Weekly: Talkin' 'Bout Wave Degeneration.
Did you guys see Cassie DeYoung and Karl Warkomski's quotes in Drudge Report's top headline? Yikes! These guys have international exposure. That's more frightening than the doomsday tunnel earthquake scenario the AP suggests.
Posted by: Silence Dogood | November 12, 2005 at 05:42 PM