A Federal judge in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York ruled that Court TV may televise oral arguments on March 4, 1996 in the federal civil trial of Marisol v. Giuliani. The ruling by Judge Robert J. Ward marks the first time that cameras have been allowed in a federal civil court since the United States Judicial Conference ended its experiment with televising federal trials in 1994. The ruling confirms that each federal district in the country is empowered to make its own rules about camera coverage of federal civil cases.
