After the fifth interruption, Ms. Feinstein temporarily stopped the hearing and cleared the room, asking that activists from the peace group Code Pink not be readmitted.
She was reprimanded by Judge Carole G. Davies, the second time in two days her sobbing stopped the hearing.
The judges stopped the hearing after two and a half hours, disappointing representatives of the liberal Judaism movements, who have been protesting the court's gingerly handling of the issue for years.
Instead, she stopped the hearing until this morning, saying the company had not been given an adequate chance to review the allegations and was faced with documents and evidence so new that some of it had not been seen until the hearing was under way.
William Luxford, medical director of the House Ear Clinic of St . Vincent Medical Centerin Los Angeles, points out one piece of good news: "It's true that continuous noise exposure will lead to the continuation of hearing loss, but as soon as the exposure is stopped, the hearing loss stops.
Reeves said he had not been contacted about testifying but planned to stop by the hearing just in case.
But in more traditional settings, what slows things down is the impulse of coaches to stop the action and be heard.
Listen closely to records and stop the record when you hear something you might like to use.
If you prefer a thicker frappuccino, you could stop the blender when you hear the "crushing" sound slow, but not stop entirely.
