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PERRY v. NEWSOM

No. 20-16375.

18 F.4th 622 (2021)

Kristin M. PERRY; Sandra B. Stier; Paul T. Katami; Jeffrey J. Zarrillo, Plaintiffs-Appellees, City and County of San Francisco, Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee, KQED, Inc., Intervenor-Appellee, v. Gavin NEWSOM, Governor; Rob Bonta, Attorney General; Tomás J. Aragón, in his official capacity as Director of the California Department of Public Health & State Registrar of Vital Statistics; Linette Scott, in her official capacity as Deputy Director of Health Information & Strategic Planning for the California Department of Public Health, Defendants-Appellees, Dennis Hollingsworth; Gail J. Knight; Martin F. Gutierrez; Mark A. Jansson, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants, and Patrick O'Connell, in his official capacity as Clerk-Recorder for the County of Alameda; Dean C. Logan, in his official capacity as Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk for the County of Los Angeles, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 18, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Ohlendorf (argued), Charles J. Cooper , David H. Thompson , Peter A. Patterson , Cooper & Kirk PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants.

Christopher D. Dusseault (argued), Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. , Theane Evangelis , Abbey J. Hudson , and Jillian N. London , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California; Theodore B. Olson , Matthew D. McGill , Amir C. Tayrani , and Andrew Wilhelm , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C.; Ethan Dettmer and Elizabeth A. Dooley , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, California; David Boies , Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, Armonk, New York; for Intervenor-Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Seth E. Goldstein , Deputy Attorney General; Benjamin M. Glickman , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Thomas S. Patterson , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Rob Bonta , Attorney General; Attorney General's Office, Sacramento, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

Dennis J. Herrera , City Attorney; Ronald P. Flynn , Chief Deputy City Attorney; Jeremy M. Goldman , Co-Chief of Appellate Litigation; Office of the City Attorney, San Francisco, California; for Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee.

Thomas R. Burke (argued) and Kelly M. Gorton , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, San Francisco, California; Rochelle L. Wilcox , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Intervenor-Appellee.

Katie Townsend , Caitlin V. Vogus , and Shannon A. Jankowski , Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 32 Media Organizations.

Before: CARLOS F. LUCERO, WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

We are once again asked to decide whether either the First Amendment or common-law right of access requires public release of video recordings of the district court bench trial in the landmark case striking down California's Proposition 8 forbidding same-sex marriage. See Perry v. Schwarzenegger,...

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