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Stephan Illi new head of German Demeter
DARMSTADT (NNA) - Stephan Illi has been appointed the first managing director of the restructured Demeter association in Germany. The separate entities Demeter-Bund (Demeter Alliance), Demeter-Marktforum (Demeter Market Forum) and Forschungsring (Research Ring) merged at the end of last year to form Demeter e.V. Illi (44) – a trained agricultural engineer who studied crop cultivation and ecological agriculture and who previously headed the Demeter-Bund – will focus, among other things, on the intensive support of members and market partners, quality development, the expansion of the Demeter range and the assurance of raw materials. End/nna/ung /cva Item: 080123-02EN Date: 23 January 2008 Copyright 2008 News Network Anthroposophy Limited. All rights reserved. See: www.nna-news.org/copyright/ More NNA reports at: www.nna-news.org/en/ Californian school district files for dismissal of PLANS legal action
SAN FRANCISCO (NNA) - Following an appeal court ruling in favour of the plaintiffs in the legal action by PLANS (People for Legal and Non-Sectarian Schools) against two Californian public school districts for operating Waldorf-method schools, the school districts have responded by filing for dismissal of the case. The move comes after the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found in favour of PLANS in November last year and referred the case back to the district court. In its ruling, the appeal court said the District Court for the Eastern District of California had erred in excluding the testimony of witnesses. A status conference was convened for January so that the district court could determine how the case should proceed. However, this has now been postponed so that the Three Ridges Elementary School District can file a motion to dismiss which will be heard towards the end of February. At the district court hearing in September 2005, the action brought by PLANS against the Sacramento Unified and Twin Ridges schools districts collapsed after 30 minutes, partly for technical reasons, when Judge Frank C. Damrell agreed with the defence that the plaintiffs had failed properly to disclose witnesses. PLANS was then unable to present any other admissible evidence. END/nna/cva Item: 080123-01EN Date: 23 January 2008 [Date] Copyright 2008 News Network Anthroposophy Limited. All rights reserved. See: www.nna-news.org/copyright/ More NNA reports at: www.nna-news.org/en/ |
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