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Article: U.S. Courts Selected for TV Project;San Francisco, New York on List
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 24, 1990
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Americans' first televised look at federal judges at work likely
will occur next year in appeals courts in New York or San Francisco
or a trial court in one of six states, court officials said last
week.
"The courts have been selected. Now, it's a matter of the news
media requesting coverage in particular cases," said David Sellers,
a spokesman for the policy-making U.S. Judicial Conference.
The conference, composed of 27 federal judges and headed by
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, approved the three-year
experiment last September. Individual courts then were invited to
volunteer.
Those selected are federal appellate courts based in San
Francisco and New York City, and U.S. District ...