Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experts across the country, a federal district court judge in Portland, Oregon, endorsed that view. Expert testimony linking implants to "any systemic illness or syndrome or autoimmune disorder of any kind," Judge Robert E. Jones declared, was so lacking in scientific credibility that it didn't belong in the courtroom...
...months trying to repair the damage. Meanwhile, her bumpy movie career--which has wavered between big roles in bad films (Shanghai Surprise) and smaller parts in an occasional decent one (A League of Their Own)--got even bumpier. In 1993 she starred in Body of Evidence, a steamy courtroom drama that bombed with critics and audiences. She complains that the script was changed so that her character, a sex-obsessed vixen on trial for murder, was killed in the end. "In all the movies of the '40s the bad girl has to die," she says. "What I loved about...
...expect wide repercussions, though of a very different kind. "This decision was an extraordinary turning point," declares Evan Wolfson, an attorney at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who served as co-counsel for the three couples, "because we now have in the cool, clear light of a courtroom a judge saying that there is no reason for government discrimination in marriage...
...court reporters take copious notes on the mannerisms and inflections displayed by the lawyers and witnesses in the trial. Then the reporters brief the actors, who act out the most pertinent snippets of the day with the aid of a TelePrompTer. Harshly lighted, and staged in a fake courtroom modeled to look like Fujisaki's, they seem neither realistic nor dramatic but rather like mini-episodes of the People's Court...
...Stephen Eskridge; likeness: excellent) seems to get better at fiddling with his pencil and gazing intensely at the goings-on. When the faux Los Angeles Police Department criminologist Collin Yamauchi (Charlie Minn) said "phenylethylene test," it seemed funnier than any bit on Mad TV. Who needs cameras in the courtroom...