How Appealing



Tuesday, December 19, 2017

“Appeals court expands public access to oral arguments with live audio streaming”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has an article that begins, “In a move to increase public access and transparency in the court system, a federal appeals court in Washington announced Tuesday that it will live stream audio of any oral argument upon request.”

You can access today’s announcement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

This wonderful new policy is likely to result, in practice, in the live-streaming of all D.C. Circuit oral arguments except for those rare appeals presenting “case-specific confidentiality concerns.”

If the so-called second-highest court in the land is willing of its own volition to adopt such a policy, one might hope that the highest court in the land won’t be too far behind.

Posted at 10:24 AM by Howard Bashman



“Alex Kozinski’s retirement doesn’t end the discussion about sexual harassment in the judiciary”: The Los Angeles Times has published this editorial.

Posted at 10:18 AM by Howard Bashman