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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...
...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...
...idea for the O.J. Civil Trial came about when Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki barred cameras from his courtroom during the current Simpson case. E! had watched its ratings skyrocket during the network's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the criminal trial, and executives reasoned that the daily dramatizations would be the best way to give viewers their O.J. fix. "The re-enactments take people inside the courtroom," defends John Rieber, E!'s programming vice president, "and that's where they want to be." Indeed, the O.J. Civil Trial has doubled E!'s audience for the 8 p.m. time slot...
...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...