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Case of the Freeway Woman: A meeting is scheduled today to try to settle the lawsuit that artist Kent Twitchell filed to get his Los Angeles mural “Old Woman of the Freeway” restored. The famed mural, depicting a bright-eyed elderly woman wearing a colored afghan, loomed above the Hollywood Freeway near downtown before it was suddenly painted over to make room for billboard ads in 1986. Twitchell took building owners Koichi Kurokawa and Prince Hotels Inc. to court, and a trial date is set for March 19. But both sides have agreed to the voluntary “settlement conference” today, and Earl Steen, attorney for Kurokawa, said: “I don’t think that it will go to trial. We will try to settle before then.”