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Candlelight, Big Screen for Oral Arguments:
At 9AM on March 5 in San Francisco the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the legal challenge to Proposition 8 which revised the California constitution to deny marriage to same-sex couples. The hearing will take about 3 hours.
On the eve of the hearing candlelight vigils are being held in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Modesto, San Diego, Stockton, Fresno, Napa, San Mateo, Palo Alto, Visalia, Bakersfield, Roseville, San Luis Obispo, San Jose, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Chico, Santa Maria, Palm Springs, Thousand Oaks, Ukiah, Fort Bragg, Santa Cruz, Sonora, Orange County, Ventura, Riverside, and Tuolumne in California, and in Phoenix, Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, and Tulsa, Okahoma.
Bay Area TV station KTVU reports that a jumbotron will be set up in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza (pictured) to broadcast the proceedings to passersby. The jumbotron project is an effort of Marriage Equality USA.
It is not known at this time if there will be a web cam to allow Internet viewers to see the jumbotron broadcast.