Wednesday, October 26, 2022

RBG stamp coming!

Appellate philatelists rejoice!
U.S. Postal Service Reveals Stamps for 2023

Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamp

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
This stamp honors Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020), the 107th Supreme Court Justice of the United States. After beginning her career as an activist lawyer fighting gender discrimination, Justice Ginsburg became a respected jurist whose important majority opinions advancing equality and strong dissents on socially controversial rulings made her a passionate proponent of equal justice and an icon of American culture. The stamp features an oil painting of Justice Ginsburg facing the viewer in her black judicial robe with an intricate white collar. Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamp with art by Michael J. Deas, based on a photograph by Philip Bermingham.

Today's DJ has Gary Watt and Patrick Burns' Arbitration Angle bi-monthly column, Staying Litigation While an Order Denying Arbitration is Appealed, about a federal circuit split that SCOTUS might address via the pending cert petition in Coinbase v. Bielski (22-105).


  • The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has agreed to once again provide livestreams of oral arguments beginning Tuesday, ending its distinction as the only federal appeals court not to commit to continuing streams indefinitely.
  • Before the COVID-19 pandemic, four appellate courts allowed some form of live remote access to oral arguments, allowed under the Judicial Conference policy, according to the letter. Those were the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Fourth Circuits.
  • All 13 appellate courts did offer either audio or video recordings of oral arguments to the public free online after proceedings.