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Updated at 10:23 a.m., Friday, June 13, 2008

Judge bars Pa. woman from contact with Michael Jordan

Associated Press

MEADVILLE, Pa. — A Pennsylvania woman who says Michael Jordan fathered her child despite two DNA tests to the contrary has been barred from contacting the basketball great, his family or his representatives.

Judge Gordon Miller on Thursday granted the permanent injunction against Lisa Miceli. The 35-year-old woman from Meadville says Jordan fathered her 4-year-old son. She was thrown out of the courtroom after speaking out several times during a hearing on the request June 4.

Earlier this year, Jordan filed a lawsuit to enforce a 2005 agreement that required Miceli to stop contacting him after a pair of DNA tests that year proved he was not the boy's father.

Jordan's attorneys asked for the injunction, saying Miceli has continued to send hundreds of e-mails and make telephone calls to Jordan and his representatives.

Frederick Sperling, Jordan's lawyer, said he was pleased with the ruling.

The judge said Miceli, who represented herself, apparently doesn't understand that the issue is the no-contact agreement that followed the paternity tests, and not the question of paternity itself.

"It is obvious that she doesn't, or is unwilling to, grasp what this suit is about," Miller said. "This is a contract action and not a paternity action." He noted in his ruling that Miceli acknowledged contacting Jordan and his representatives.

Jordan's attorney, Frederick Sperling, did not immediately return a call Friday.

Miceli called the ruling "absolutely outrageous" and said Jordan has violated the paternity test agreement they reached in 2005.

Miceli said the DNA samples were taken in Jordan's attorney's office and she doubts the veracity of the paternity tests.

"I was supposed to have a witness of mine present (when the samples were taken), so he breached his own contract," said Miceli, who also denied contacting Jordan's family.

A two-page agreement covering the paternity tests says nothing about such a witness. The agreement and other court records show Jordan and Miceli's attorneys agreed on what companies would conduct the tests, paid for by Jordan, and that technicians used fingerprints, photos and other means to ensure the samples came from Jordan.