Edited sentence: A new pretrial by telephone is set for March 28, 2007 at 10:15 AM.According to the official website of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, since 1998 the city has been engaged in an ongoing (i.Former Parma City Council President Kenneth Kuczma famously said, "I do not want Negroes in the city of Parma," and even federal courts ruled on the matter.Most recently, the case titled Michael Perry et al vs.Nevertheless, Parma's local, state, and even national image has been marred by four incidents:.Parma has recently been plagued by negative press in the local media as a result of a larger conflict between the police and city government, which has some of its origins from an on-and-off investigation into whether or not former Republican Councilman John Stover stole "files from another council member's briefcase" in 2000--allegations that the Stover family disputes.Parma, City of-et al, held a pre-trial on March 9, 2007, but the "defendant" failed to appear.Such major newspapers as The New York Times covered allegations from the 1970s onwards that Parma's government worked to resist racial integration.The incident, which has been referred to as "Filegate" by local and regional media sources, has thus far had inconclusive results, but many residents and outside observers have interpreted the escalation in tensions between the police department and city government as one of reprisals and counter-reprisals of which "Filegate" may serve as an early salvo.Thus, the parties were to have contacted the court by telephone on The Ides of March of 2007.still active) and costly civil suit pitting seventeen Parma residents as plaintiffs against around a dozen prominent city officials (including the current mayor and council president) as defendants