SF Court Hears Arguments Over Prop 8 Video Recordings
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/ AP) -- The legal sparring over California's same-sex marriage ban, known as Proposition 8, is set to return to a San Francisco courtroom.
A federal judge was scheduled to hear arguments Monday on whether he should unseal video recordings of last year's landmark on the voter-approved measure's constitutionality.
Lawyers for two same-sex couples, the city of San Francisco and for a coalition of media groups want the recordings made public.
Attorneys for the ban's backers are trying to keep them under wraps. They argue that that disseminating the footage would be a direct violation of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned cameras from covering the high-profile case so it could be broadcast to other courthouses or posted on YouTube.
The presiding judge who ultimately declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional had his staff record the proceedings but said at the time that the recordings were for his personal use only.
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