TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 13, 2022

Livestreaming of federal appellate court arguments could outlast the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal judiciary told U.S. lawmakers, with all but one circuit court indicating plans to at least consider keeping the practice going. Reuters reports that U.S. District Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, said the judiciary is working to determine to what extent remote access to oral arguments should continue post-pandemic. Before March 2020, only the 9th and D.C. Circuits had regularly streamed oral arguments online.