Last May the ECJ ruled that Google must consider requests from individuals to wipe links to incriminating data.
"They'll tell you all sorts of terrible things about me," Mr. Wilcox said, adding that Kaplan is intent on discrediting him because of his access to incriminating evidence.
"I could not be sure," Justice Hall said, "that questions posed, even though seemingly innocuous, would not open the witness to incriminating herself".
Mr. Bork's role in Watergate occurred in 1973, when Nixon wanted to keep a special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, from gaining access to incriminating White House recordings and ordered him fired.
But Pinero's play is elegantly structured and, in the morning-after scene in the magistrate's room, becomes rather like a comic Oedipus Rex with the pillar of the law getting ever closer to incriminating himself.
In closing arguments, Cathy Seibel, an assistant United States attorney, suggested that Mr. Pirro was similar to Richard M. Nixon: a smart man who held on to incriminating evidence and tried to cover up.
