BRIEFCASE MEDIANEWS TAPS GRILLY FOR POSITION.

Byline: - Staff and Wire Services

DENVER - Eric Grilly has been named president of MediaNews Group Interactive, MediaNews Group's interactive division, effective immediately.

MediaNews owns the Daily News and its Web site, dailynews.com.

Grilly joined Denver-based MediaNews Group in May 1999 as vice president of interactive media at The Denver Post. In October 2000, Grilly was named vice president of MediaNews Group Interactive.

``Eric has done a masterful job of positioning MediaNews Group Interactive as a strategic business partner for all of our newspapers' interactive divisions,'' said Jody Lodovic, president of MediaNews Group.

EBM Solutions, Health Net join up

WOODLAND HILLS - Health Net Inc. has partnered with EBM Solutions Inc. to provide its customers with information about health-care options and treatment plans.

EBM Solutions' evidence-based medical guidelines are developed, reviewed and updated annually by leading medical institutions throughout the nation.

Consumers will be able to access the information online early next year.

Trial date is set in Disney lawsuit

An Oct. 15 trial date was set Thursday in a lawsuit filed against The Walt Disney Co. by a former senior vice president of its global anti-piracy department.

In her lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in May 2001, Judy Denenholz says she was fired for refusing to ``cook the books'' in response to an Internal Revenue Service audit.

Denenholz alleges that Disney tried to cheat the IRS by understating millions of dollars in legal fees spent on copyright enforcement.

Legal fees paid for copyright offenses would have to be spread out over the long commercial duration of a film or television product instead of listed as an immediate expense, forcing the company to pay an increased tax bill, Denenholz states in her court papers.

Denenholz also claims she was mistreated after refusing the sexual advances of a Disney assistant general counsel.

``We unequivocally deny her allegations,'' said Disney's attorney, Patricia Glaser.

Court to hear suit against Verizon

WASHINGTON - The music industry will go to court today to try to force an Internet service provider to identify a subscriber accused of illegally trading copyrighted songs, setting up a legal showdown that could indelibly alter the free-swapping culture that has been a signature of the Web's early years.

If successful, the suit against Verizon would pave the way for ailing record companies to send out reams of cease-and-desist letters to alleged music pirates, scaring them into submission rather than going through the long process of suing each one in court.

Ex-Enron official may have had role

HOUSTON - Richard A. Causey, the former chief accounting officer at Enron Corp., never really fit into his company's aggressive corporate culture.

But the Justice Department suggested on Wednesday that Causey - who was fired from Enron in February - played a crucial role in an unfolding case of corporate fraud at Enron.

Causey, 42, was not charged with any crime. And he was not specifically named in the criminal complaint against Andrew S. Fastow, Enron's former chief financial officer, who was charged Wednesday with profiting from helping manipulate Enron's financial statements over the last few years.

But the complaint said that the company's chief accounting officer made false representations to Enron's board about dealings with a pair of ofalance-sheet partnerships called LJM1 and LJM2, which Fastow controlled.

Causey, who invoked his Fifth Amendment right against selncrimination last February during congressional hearings, has declined all requests for interviews.