Countrywide Seeks to Bar Cameras from Courtroom in Racial Discrimination Case
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and the Firm's client, Courtroom View Network ("CVN") (an internet-based newsgathering organization), were the subject of recent press involving the attempt to get cameras in federal courts. Led by D.C. partner, Jonathan Sherman, CVN has successfully obtained access to federal civil proceedings in New York and is currently seeking access to proceedings in class action litigation -- pending in the District of Massachusetts -- arising out of the subprime crisis against Countrywide. If successful, it would be the first time in nearly fifteen years that cameras are allowed in federal court outside of New York
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