TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on May 19, 2020

Tennessee's Supreme Court held its first live-streamed oral arguments today, with the five justices donning their robes and logging in to the Zoom platform to hear three cases, WPLN reports. The high court began video recording proceedings nearly two years ago. And last month, the justices held arguments by video conference which were later posted online. “So today, we take the next natural step,” Chief Justice Jeffrey Bivins said. “We feel like this is a very important step from the standpoint of showing our citizens and having them grow in confidence in our system by showing our courts are open and accessible.”