A class-action lawsuit filed in December 2011 against the UC Board of Regents in response to the theft of personal information of UCLA Health System patients in early September 2011 has failed to move forward, according to the plaintiff’s attorney.

Kevin Williams, a senior custodian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical center, sat near the bus stop at UCLA Medical Plaza on Monday, smoking a cigarette, aware that it would be one of his last on the medical facility’s campus.

Beginning today, a policy banning smoking in the medical and health sciences areas of campus, including the medical schools and some life science buildings, will go into effect ““ a process eight months in the making.

UCLA is the final member of the University of California system to implement the restrictions.

With the help of a grant, UCLA is laying the foundation for a new drug and rehabilitation treatment and training center in Baghdad.