When Briscoe and Green are interviewing somebody at the site of a labor protest, there is an 8-foot tall inflatable rat at the protest site. Inflatable rats are actually used by the labor unions at protest sites in New York City (NY, USA) when they want to show that the contractors and developers are rats for using non-union labor.
Merwin Goldsmith plays Judge Ian Feist in this, and ten other episodes. He previously played the part of Trial Judge Gollub in episode 1.17, Mushrooms (1991).
Don Sparks has played three different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 11.12 Teenage Wasteland (2001) - A.D.A. Lawrence Donato.
- Episode 14.10 Ill-Conceived (2003) - CSU Technician Dill.
- Episode 15.1 Paradigm (2004) - CSU Technician Dill.
- Episode 18.17 Personae Non Grata (2008) - James Kelvin.