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Constitutional Law

Jan. 19, 2010

Cameras in Courts: Broadcast of Prop. 8 Trial

Christine Peek of McManis Faulkner examines the debate over broadcasting the Prop. 8 trial and action taken to disseminate information after Supreme Court stay.

By Christine Peek

By order of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Proposition 8 trial now proceeding before the Honorable Vaughn Walker in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California will not be broadcast to other federal courthouses throughout the country. The Court's January 13 per curiam decision in the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry stayed the district court's January 7 order requesting that Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit approv...

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