Updates to our Terms of Use

We are updating our Terms of Use. Please carefully review the updated Terms before proceeding to our website.

Thursday, March 28, 2024 | Back issues
Courthouse News Service Courthouse News Service

Proposition 8 Hearing|Will Be Televised

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Oral arguments in a hearing on California's gay marriage ban will be televised. An appeals court granted two TV stations permission to broadcast the proceedings, scheduled for Dec. 6.

The 9th Circuit will allow C-Span and KGO to televise live, and KGO will be permitted to tape the proceedings for later broadcast. Two cameras will be permitted in the courtroom, under the order.

The two-week trial in January before U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker was to have been filmed for YouTube, but that plan was nixed after objections from proponents of the gay marriage ban.

The proponents appealed Judge Walker's August ruling that found the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

"The tradition of restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples does not further any state interest," Walker wrote. "Rather, the evidence shows that Prop. 8 harms the state's interest in equality, because it mandates that men and women be treated differently based only on antiquated and discredited notions of gender."

Follow @MariaDinzeo
Categories / Uncategorized

Subscribe to Closing Arguments

Sign up for new weekly newsletter Closing Arguments to get the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and hot cases and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the world.

Loading...