In Re Sony BMG Music Entertainment

For the reasons set forth so clearly in Judge Selya’s opinion, I agree with my *11colleagues that the district court palpably erred in its application of Local Rule 83.3 of the District of Massachusetts to the request of respondent Tenenbaum that Courtroom View Network be permitted to webcast the non-evidentiary motions hearing that was scheduled for January 22, 2009. Given the language of the rule, and the unmistakable grounding of that language in a policy adopted by the Judicial Conference of the United States, that request should have been denied.

However, this inescapable legal conclusion…