# Gates v. Jones

U.S. Court of Appeals - 89120-1-DVD - Gates v. Jones - U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. The issue in this case is California Proposition 140 which puts a lifetime ban on state legislative service. Mr. Bates is a member of the California Assembly who initiated the suit and Mr. Jones was a sponsor of the bill. The California Supreme Court upheld the law in 1991. A three-judge panel from this circuit heard the appeal of this case from the decision handed down by a federal judge declaring the law unconstitutional. Filmed by C-SPAN. Non-commercial use only. For more information, see http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/89120-1

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1997
- By: U.S. Court of Appeals
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/org.c-span.89120-1)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.