San Francisco’s new chief federal judge now must decide whether his predecessor can keep the video recordings of the trial over California’s ban on same-sex marriage – and whether he should have disqualified himself from presiding over that trial.
Sponsors of Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative that outlawed gay and lesbian weddings, had asked the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to confiscate the videos from former Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker.
They argued that Walker had defied a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and violated his own court’s regulations by showing a three-minute excerpt of the trial during a speech in February, shortly before he retired from the bench. The high court had prohibited Walker from airing the videos during the trial in January 2010.
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