Lawrence Hecimovich, perhaps most prominent for his work as deputy attorney for the city of San Francisco, lost a lawsuit he filed after the local Parent-Teacher Organization no longer allowed him to coach in the Encinal School after-school basketball league.
After earlier disagreements between the Geneva-based parent organization and its Indian unit, the WWF in 1998 set up an independent office to run the tiger project.
Parent company Alcatel-Lucent began showing the concept to outsiders in October, but neither organization wanted to specify when the technology would be released.