At the Lectern has the latest on Cal Supreme Court remote oral arguments here.
The DJ's State High Court Considers Pension Benefit Dispute notes this:
- Oral arguments were livestreamed, with a visual setup similar to "The Brady Bunch" or "Hollywood Squares." The justices were in seven of the boxes. The attorney making an argument took up an eighth square and a timer was in the ninth.
- California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye and Justice Carol A. Corrigan, who asked questions from the court's San Francisco chambers, each wore masks. The other justices and attorneys, working from home, did not.
- The reason for the masks is because of a San Francisco city ordinance that requires workers doing "essential government functions" to wear a face covering at the workplace whenever they are "in any room or enclosed area when other people (except for members of the person's own household or residence) are present."