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Federal court approves television cameras in time for Prop 8 hearing

donal brown December 22, 2009

The Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit approved television cameras for certain district court hearings, civil proceedings with no juries. Before now the court had only allowed cameras to televise appellate arguments. -DB Cal Law December 18, 2009 By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO — The Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit authorized television cameras in certain district court proceedings Thursday, reviving a national controversy just weeks before a groundbreaking trial over same-sex marriage is slated to

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No cameras…yet for Prop 8 court challenge

donal brown December 17, 2009

The Northern District chief judge said there would be no TV cameras allowed into court for the federal challenge to Prop 8, but that under a Ninth Circuit governing council is considering a pilot program to allow them. -DB Legal Pad A Cal Law Blog December 16, 2009 By Dan Levine As of today, cameras will not be permitted to televise the federal challenge to Prop 8. But that may change by the time trial

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Federal judge orders Prop. 8 backers to cough up campaign strategy documents without delay

donal brown October 26, 2009

Backers of proposition 8 were hoping to delay turning over campaign records while appealing  a court order to surrender the documents. But a district federal judge ordered them to relinquish the documents so that Prop. 8 opponents could examine them for anti gay bias. -DB San Francisco Chronicle October 26, 2009 Bob Egelko SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge said sponsors of California’s ban on same-sex marriage may not delay in handing over campaign strategy documents

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Prop 8 Supreme Court hearing is best evidence yet for allowing cameras into the courtroom

Peter Scheer June 2, 2009

By Peter Scheer The California Supreme Court’s hearing yesterday in the Prop 8 case–broadcast live over the internet via streaming video–erased any doubt about the wisdom of allowing cameras into the nation’s courts. Let’s hope US Supreme Court Justices David Souter, Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas were watching the oral arguments on Prop 8’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. They are the camera-allergic justices who have publicly stated their opposition to

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