Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Supreme Court indefinitely blocks YouTube broadcast of Prop 8 Trial

With a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to keep the Prop 8 trial dark on the Web, rejecting Judge Vaughn Walker's attempt to broadcast the proceedings on the federal court's Web site by using YouTube., as well as allowing it to be circulating for viewing at various federal courthouses around the West. The majority opinion said that Walker and officials with the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference, including Chief 9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, did not follow proper procedures in changing federal court rules that would allow the broadast. The majority stressed that it was not "expressing any view on whether such trials should be broadcast." Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the four dissenters, decried the decision, saying there was no reason to interfere with the broadcast and that there would not be any harm in allowing the webcast.

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1 comment:

  1. Funny....cameras not allowed in ...during a trial where the U.S.Constitution is being attacked by groups exalting themselves as recieving messages from God. The irony of all of this..actually it is pathetic,disturbing and so very harmful to America.

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