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California's highest court rules ABC was wrong to secretly record a telepsychics's conversation.

"I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer."

--Cicero

Mark Sanders' powers of prognostication must have been a little defective the day he had a couple of heart-to-heart talks with his "co-worker," Stacy Lescht.

Lescht, a reporter for ABC's "PrimeTime Live," took a job with the Psychic Marketing Group in Los Angeles as part of her show's undercover investigation of the telepsychic industry. She was assign

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