Jury selection began yesterday in federal court in Gulfport for the first trial against State Farm over Katrina damage.
"My client's position will be the same as it was for the first trial," Mr. Wing said.
For the first trial, only 6 out of a pool of 200 potential jurors were not white.
Some 500 people, mostly crew as well as officials from the owners and engineers and suppliers, were on board for the first trial, set to continue until Sunday.
Their slow assembly of the many-pieced set for the first trial scene is an essential part of that scene, as ritualistic as a Roman Catholic Mass.
But of the 6,000 women recruited 11 years ago for the first trial, not a single one has developed full-blown cancer.
The prosecutors are using the revelation to buttress their argument that Virginia is the best venue for the first trial of the two, who would both be eligible for the death penalty here.
Dueling jurisdictions want control of the case, and the new evidence was used to assert that Virginia was the best venue for the first trial of the pair, who could be eligible for the death penalty.
Dr. Kessler, whose own daughter was paralyzed from the waist down in a skiing accident, said he thought Geron's therapy was not the ideal candidate for the first trial.
Ministers have already delayed announcing permission for the first proposed new coal plant, at Kingsnorth, Kent, because of wrangling over the cost of CCS, said to have risen to between £750m and £1.5bn for the first trial alone.
A federal judge in Manhattan has set next April 12 as the date for the first trial in the wrongful-death lawsuits stemming from the 9/11 terror attacks.
