Proponents of the overturned Proposition 8 have appealed a decision to release tapes of the 2010 San Francisco federal trial that first struck down California's same-sex marriage ban to the U.S.
Supreme Court.The appeal was filed March 30.As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision November 18 that the tapes could be released to the public. KQED-TV, the Bay Area affiliate of the Public Broadcasting System, has been fighting for access to the tapes for documentary purposes.
Thomas Burke, an attorney for KQED-TV, stated to the B.A.R. that "one hopes that this second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court is the final stop in this odyssey.