They've heard from high-paid experts, cattlemen and Oprah Winfrey herself. They've seen hundreds of documents and endured countless objections, conferences and other delays.

The eight women and four men have spent the past five weeks at ringside while a group of prominent Texas Panhandle cattle feeders duked it out with the nation's talk show queen over a show about mad cow disease.Jurors were expected to finally get the case after closing arguments Wednesday.

"Almost over. Almost over," Winfrey sang as she left the federal building Tuesday.

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