In one motion it noted: "Whether Sala Shavon Cross could have been pronounced dead within one year and one day of her brutalizing and subsequent attachment to artificial life-sustaining apparatus is a question effectively forestalled by the efforts of the defendant.

"We are doing the same planning that we did for the directors and writers," said Barry Diller, chairman of Fox Inc. "But because we've had a recent brutalizing of the business with the writers' strike, I think people are going to go a long way not to walk into that airplane blade again."