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Law.com has SCOTUS Advocates Seek Permanent Livestreaming of Oral Arguments

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  A “who’s who” of veteran U.S. Supreme Court practitioners urged the justices on Tuesday to make permanent their pandemic-related policy of livestreaming audio of oral arguments for the public.
• Forty advocates in a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote that, since the policy change, “scores of law professors have used the streams as teaching tools of appellate advocacy. Hundreds of media outlets have linked to them so listeners and viewers could hear directly from the justices, unfiltered and in real time, about the issues the court was grappling with. And tens of thousands of Americans have come to understand the seriousness and the care with which you and your colleagues treat each case and each advocate who comes before the court.”
  
• The Supreme Court has been livestreaming argument audio for the public since May 2020.
• The practitioners, in a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., wrote that livestreaming and same-day posting of the audio has had many positive effects for academics, historians and the public in general.
• Some of the letter signers also would like livestreaming of the justices' summaries of their opinions if they return to their practice of summarizing opinions from the bench.
The full letter can be read here.

Also, from CLA's Litigation Section: the March 2022 issue of Litigation Update is now online, keeping you up to date on current case law.