"This was a ruling against the plaintiff, not for Merck, " said plaintiff's lawyer JeffCooper of SimmonsCooper in Illinois, who has about 100 Vioxx cases filed.
The screening-room designer most in demand is JeffCooper, an MIT-educated architect and acoustic engineer who has built facilities for George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Zemeckis and, most recently, Mr. Spielberg.