<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Early next month San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren will hear arguments in the case formerly known as John Doe v. John Doe.

The case was filed in August 2002, but all details about this unusual legal skirmish were kept secret for more than six months, shrouded by the California False Claims Act, the state's whistle-blower statute.</font>