For their part, Mr. Perelman's lawyers complained that they had already had six people testify in the case and planned to have four more testify -- 10 in all -- while Ms. Duff's witness list has 306 names.
More testified recently at hearings in America's House of Representatives, where efforts are under way to pass a resolution calling on Japan to make a full apology, and where some of the victims explained, painfully, just how wartime sex slavery was for them.
The more he testifies, the greater the potential that contradictory statements could lead to scrutiny about whether he was truthful in his responses.
The Catholic church is far from perfect – the string of child sexual abuses cases (and their cover-up) more than testifies to that.
What's more, Comey testifies, he wrote detailed memorandums following each unsavory encounter.
"Some people, they got more," he testified.
Banks, they say, should disgorge more documents, testify more precisely and prove more completely that they own millions of mortgage notes.
The mission could do little more than testify before Congress about the correlation between the police officers' low pay and their involvement in sex trafficking.
Even those notorious old boys who are never without a babe usually want her more to testify to their sexual power than to test it.
For a while, at least, there will be no more dancers testifying about the precise nature of their occupation, or former managers describing the club's relationship to the Gambino crime family of New York.
And the production now comes with compelling projections by Justin West: vintage photographs, film clips and more that testify to life during the Weimar Republic, especially for Jews and gay people, and to life as it continued for the lucky ones who got out of Hitler's Germany in time.
