In yet another twist in an ongoing linkurl:legal battle,;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54035/ a Los Angeles Superior Court judge yesterday (Jan. 24) reinstated a linkurl:defamation lawsuit;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53709/ filed by Kwang Yul Cha, a fertility researcher who published a controversial 2001 linkurl:study;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11584476&dopt=AbstractPlus linking in vitro fertilization success to prayer. The judge reversed his decision to linkurl:throw out the case;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/53876/ last November in response to a motion filed by University of California, Irvine professor Bruce Flamm, who has openly linkurl:criticized;http://www.obgynnews.com/article/PIIS0029743707702021/fulltext Cha's study since its publication. "The legal nightmare will now continue," Flamm wrote in an Email to __The Scientist__. Cha's privately owned healthcare group, CHA Health Systems, announced the judge's decision in a press release yesterday. "We're very pleased that the Court has reinstated Dr. Cha's claim," said Dr. Cha's attorney, Anthony Glassman, in the release. "We have always believed that the article was reasonably susceptible to a defamatory interpretation, and we look forward to letting a...
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