High Court continues stay of YouTube broadcast!
In a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme court ruled to continue the "stay" on a YouTube broadcast of the Proposition 8 trial (relating to gay-marriage issues in the State of California) currently underway in San Francisco.
The Justices did not issue an official opinion stating on what grounds the "emergency" appeal (filed by Proposition 8 litigants) was denied.
A lone dissenter had no qualms about voicing his disapproval, though.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, asserted in his dissent, that the court's standard for granting a stay was not met in his view.
"The papers did not show a likelihood of irreparable harm," the Justice stated for the record in so many words.
In their concise order, the Justices (in essence) said they were quashing the move by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker - "permitting real-time streaming" of the trial - except as it permitted streaming to other rooms within the confines of the courthouse in which the trial was being held.
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