In court depositions, however, the officials acknowledged that they never received satisfactory responses and failed to insure that the agency had resolved its shortcomings.

State officials commend the city's progress, but in court depositions they also expressed lingering concerns about the quality of abuse investigations.

Hamlin's agent said he sent an information packet to each of the 32 teams, including the court depositions from his latest case.

In court depositions, the company was later to say that the agreement had saved it $24 million a year.

"King had me believe that we were partners in everything," Tyson said in a 2000 court deposition.

And outside of the required court depositions, Father Mills has yet to offer a public statement, even to the parishioners of St. Elizabeth's.

By hiring additional staff reporters and news services the Legal set out to be more than just a recorder of court depositions, but a full-fledged journalistic endeavor.

"There were so many things that have happened in this particular case from crisis to crisis," one voluntary-agency caseworker said in a court deposition.

All of them refused to travel to Israel, but they sent the court depositions.

In a court deposition unrelated to alleged child abuse, he was visibly drowsy, lacked concentration and repeatedly slurred while speaking.