SACRAMENTO — A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has asked for an en banc reconsideration of Google Inc.’s denied motion to keep a controversial movie posted on YouTube while a legal challenge proceeds.

The request, from an unnamed judge, challenges a Feb. 28 order by a three-judge panel denying Google’s petition for an emergency stay of an order directing the company remove the anti-Islamic “Innocence of Muslims” from YouTube.com.