Local Rule LR 43.10: Special Trial Orders--Witnesses, Attorneys, Public Attendance, Number and Length of Addresses

LR 43.10 Special Trial Orders--Witnesses, Attorneys, Public Attendance, Number and Length of Addresses. Subject to the requirements of due process of law and of the constitutional rights of the parties, a trial judge may make an order in any case covering any of the following matters:

Limitation of Witnesses. Limiting the number of witnesses whose testimony is similar or cumulative;

Limitation of Witness Interrogation. Limiting the time to be spent on the direct examination or the cross examination of a witness or of a party's overall examination and cross examination of witnesses;

Limitation of Attorneys. Limiting the number of attorneys representing the same party or the same group of parties, who may actively participate in the trial of the case or the examination of witnesses;

Number and Length of Addresses. Regulating the number and length of addresses to the jury or to the court;

Regulating and Excluding Public Attendance. Regulating or excluding the public or persons having no interest in the proceedings, whenever the court deems such order of exclusion to be in the interest of the public good, order or morals.