No Settlement Reached

By Ben Bolch

Dec. 4, 2001 12 AM PT

Lawyers in Compton Dominguez High boys’ basketball Coach Mack Calvin’s wrongful termination suit against Cal State Dominguez Hills failed to reach a settlement Monday during a three-hour mediation conference in Los Angeles Superior Court.

No further court dates are set before the jury trial that is scheduled to begin Jan. 30, but Laura Lee Gold, the supervising Deputy Atty. Gen. who is representing Dominguez Hills, said a settlement could be reached out of court or through mediation.

Calvin, who is black, claims that he was a victim of harassment and discrimination based on race while he was the coach at Dominguez Hills in the 1996-97season. The school and Athletic Director Ron Prettyman are named as defendants.

The school has denied wrongdoing.

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

No Settlement Reached

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