Under court rules, neither side is allowed to impeach its own witness.
Neither side in the litigation was allowed to contact the scientists while they weighed the evidence.
As usual, only one side of the question has been allowed to get to the wider public.
In addition, neither side could be expected or allowed to adequately defend itself against the other's nuclear missiles.
The judge has not said whether the two sides will be allowed to call witnesses.
Each side would be allowed to retain 100 warheads on its own territory.
Under it, neither side is allowed to publicly criticize the other.
With rare exceptions, each side is allowed 30 minutes argument and up to 24 cases may be argued at one sitting.
WHY the south side was allowed to fall apart is hard to understand.
Each side was allowed two substitutes, who could fill in anywhere, provided they did not play anyone more than once.