For the plaintiffs it comes down to a question of candor and does the jury think the defendant was being honest and putting all its cards on the table. If they think they're trying to hide something, that's when the defendant gets slammed.

They are now up in the win column and that's a good place to be. But I think the cases coming up in New Jersey... are going to be a little more of a true test of which way things go. These are long-term users. The ability of plaintiffs to argue causation will be substantially enhanced.

The defendant has also not shown that moving his case will enable a jury to be chosen that has not heard all of the same pretrial publicity that a Stanislaus County jury has heard.

We think this is going to a jury.

How do you know the defendant lied? Well, because the defendant admitted it here in the courtroom.

the completeness and candor of [his] prior testimony.