"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.
"I was approached by JeffCooper, who is fronting the bid to have St Louis win one of the franchise slots, and I did have a lunch meeting with him three weeks ago, " he said.