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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 13, 2023

Federal courts will allow remote public access to certain proceedings to continue as they did during the COVID-19 pandemic, but with new restrictions, Reuters reports. The new policy adopted by the U.S. Judicial Conference allows judges presiding over civil and bankruptcy cases to provide live audio access in non-trial proceedings and those that have no witness testimony. The policy falls short of calls by lawmakers and advocates to go further in allowing remote access to other court proceedings, including former President Donald Trump's criminal trials, but goes beyond what the judiciary had generally allowed before the pandemic.