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Judge Criticizes Colleagues For Waiting 15 Months To Nix Takedown Order
- TechDirt, Tuesday, May 19, 2015 2:12 PM
Appellate judge Stephen Reinhardt criticized his colleagues on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for waiting 15 months to dissolve an order that required Google to take down the clip “Innocence of Muslims.” “This is a case in which our court not only tolerated the infringement of fundamental First Amendment rights but was the architect of that infringement,” Reinhardt wrote in an opinion issued this week.
