Wednesday, May 6, 2020

The latest on Cal Supreme Court Remote Args


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."