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Report Archive:
May 25, 2000:
Fox Trial
Will Not Start June 12 as Scheduled
May 18, 2000:
Fox Still
Stalls on Testimony of Its president Mitchell Stern
Pre-trial hearing is otherwise uneventful
May
8, 2000:
Ralph Nader
Testifies About Broadcasters' Public Interest Requirement
Presidential candidate gives testimony at pre-trial depo
May 5, 2000:
Court-ordered Mediation Is Brief and
Unsuccessful
Trial set to begin June 12
April 28,2000:
Fox Challenges rBGH
Experts At Depositions
Fox lawyers laying ground-
work to tell jurors experts are cancer scaremongers?
April 26,2000:
Walter Cronkite
Testifies on Behalf of Akre & Wilson
Fox lawyers lodge objections
October 19:
Fox Lawyers Insist On Secrecy At Deposition
French TV Ejected
October 18:
FDA Wants Comments on G-M Foods
Public Meetings Start in November
October 13:
Judge Rules: Trial Will Proceed:
Defense loses third effort to have case dismissed
September 24:
MSNBC:
Gene-modified foods might get labels:
Industry weighs voluntary steps, U.S. studies options as well
September 20:
Trial Still Set to Start Soon:
Busy Docket Delays foxBGHsuit
August 4:
MSNBC:
Mutable Feast:
Will the fight over gene-altered food products leapfrog across the Atlantic?
June 30:
Consumers International:
UN Health Group Shuns BGH
June 1:
New York Times:
Farmers Right To Sue Grows - Food Warning Muzzle Likely
May 10:
Corporate Crime Reporter:
Monsanto Officials Join Leading Consumer, Environmental Groups
May 3:
Fox Deceives Viewers in Primetime,
Too
Net Admits Staging after INSIDE EDITION Report
April 30:
Democracy Group Award to
Akre/Wilson
Fired Reporters Cited for "Courage in Journalism"
April 29:
New Trial Date is October
11
Fox Piles On Big-Name Lawyers
April 17:
Clinton Lawyer Joins Fox
Legal Team
David Kendall Involvement Confirmed in Letter to Monsanto
April 16:
Fox Pleads for Another Delay
Later Trial Date to be Set April 29th
April 1:
Judge Says BGH Case Will
Go To Trial
Opening Gavel Falls May 10th
February 16:
PENTHOUSE Exposes BGH,
Fox Coverup:
First-rate story of BGH situation and lawsuit against Fox TV
(rated G -- no nudity, just the story)
January 25:
ENS
Summary of BGH Developments
January 14:
How Fox Wanted to Slant News
of Canadian Concerns
Canadian BGH Concerns Were Big Issue In Firing of Fox Reporters
January 14:
Canada Says NO to BGH!
Read the CBC Story or 
January 14:
Health Canada Rejects Bovine Growth Hormone in Canada
Government News Release
December 16:
Akre & Wilson Win Courage
Award
For Work On Story Which Cost Them Their Jobs
December 15:
ABC NEWS Catches Up on BGH
Read the ABC Story or
November 7:
FOX Legal (8/28) Answers
to Reporters' Complaint Now Available
November 1:
Monsanto
and Fox: Partners in Censorship
PR Watch - Showcase Article
October 30:
Canadians Probe Coverup Claim
Read CBC Story or
October 24:
Reporters Get Top SPJ Ethics
Award
October 22:
BGH Issue Explodes in Canada:
Read CBC Story or
October 7:
SECRET Canadian Study Leaked...
...BGH safety questions unanswered?
Sept 13:
Akre-Wilson Depos Start
Sept 10:
TIMES/St. Petersburg
SP Times covers NutraSweet flap
Sept 10:
Our Story: Fox Still Protecting
Monsanto?
Sept 8:
Fox Pulls Plug on NutraSweet
Foe
Sept 1:
Reporters Respond To Defense
READ
story FOX-TV refused to air...
or
July 14:
Judge refuses to dismiss
all but one count of reporters' suit
July 5:
OBSERVER/London
Digger Still Plays Dirty
July 1:
Depositions Continue, Trial Date
Set
June 7:
TIMES/St. Petersburg
Akre/Wilson Preparing FCC Complaint
May 26:
Judge rejects Defense motion
for Protective Order
May 25:
WEEKLY PLANET/Tampa:
Grazing A Stink
- - -Don't Have a Cow
May 23:
NEW YORK TIMES:
(Silenced) Reporters... Post Web Site
May 21:
Wilson/Akre demand on-air correction
April 29:
FOX-TV asks court:
Dismiss case
and Delay depositions
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Trial Will Proceed Sooner Than Expected; Could
Start This Month
By STEVE WILSON
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TAMPA
(June 6, 2000)At a brief hearing this morning, trial judge Ralph
Steinberg made it clear that the Wilson/Akre v Fox Television trial is now
third in line to be heard in his courtroom. Depending on how quickly two medical malpractice cases can be
tried or settled, the Fox case could begin before the end of this month.
I understand its a
hardship, the judge said of the continuing delay.
Were just jammed up here but you will be heard immediately
after these two in front of you.
William McDaniels representing Fox told the judge that a July trial
would come during the July sweeps period but he admitted that particular
ratings period is the least important of the year.
He raised no objection to getting the case to trial as soon as
possible.
We are ready to go, said co-plaintiff Jane Akre.
Four trial dates have been set and passed, two of them because
Fox simply wanted to delay. Its
time a jury heard the facts.
The plaintiff in one of the medical malpractice trials which
started in Steinbergs court yesterday said she has waited more than
four years to get her case to trial.
She is suing a local hospital and a physician she says are
responsible for her confinement to a wheelchair.
John Chamblee, representing Ms. Akre, told the court that a July
trial means one of the plaintiffs key witnesses, Dr. Samuel Epstein,
will be out of the country. Chamblee
sought and obtained permission to take Dr. Epsteins testimony on
videotape so that it could be presented to the jury while the witness is
out of the country.
The judge had little time today to hear details of a motion by
plaintiff Steve Wilson seeking sanctions against the defense attorneys for
an allegedly improper contact with at least one witness.
Wilson filed a motion asking the court to order Fox attorneys to
stop contacting witnesses for the fired journalists in what the plaintiffs
say is an effort to discourage the witnesses from appearing at trial.
You know that would be improper, judge Steinberg told Fox
attorney Patricia Anderson who denied that ever discouraged a witness from
appearing. Without ruling
that she or any of the Fox lawyers acted improperly or unethically, he
admonished them to make no improper contacts.
Plaintiff Wilson also asked the court to allow follow-up
depositions of a few of the defendants witnesses, some of whom gave
depositions more than two years ago.
Although the judge indicated the request did not seem unreasonable
to prevent trial by ambush, he said he would hear those motions at a
later date along with many others which are pending.
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