Gene Miller v. Universal City Studios, Inc.

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• holding that Rule 615 prohibits the read- ing of trial transcripts
• noting that exempting the defendant’s expert from sequestration under Rule 615 “would be questionable” in a copyright infringement case where the expert would be analyzing the similarity of two works after the plaintiff analyzed the same two works
• affirming exclusion of witness as remedy for \a clear and intentional\ violation of a sequestration order
• “The valuable distinction in copyright law between facts and the expression of facts cannot be maintained if research is held to be copyrightable.”
• “The opportunity to shape testimony is as great with a witness who reads trial testimony as with one who hears the testimony in open court.''
• “Whether or not it would be reasonable for a trial court to exempt an expert witness from a sequestration order, there is no required exemption implied under rule 615.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).