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“How the California Supreme Court Transitioned to Remote Oral Arguments in Less Than a Month”

April 15, 2020

Alaina Lancaster reports for The Recorder, with behind-the-scenes photos, on the technical challenges behind the Supreme Court’s first remote oral arguments last week.

“Judicial Council IT staff supplied the Dolby equipment and the BlueJeans account, said Cathal Conneely, the public information officer for the Judicial Council of California, and all participants had to do was to download the BlueJeans Client Software.”

The article also discloses that “[t]he Friday before opening arguments, the court hosted a dry run with all justices and lawyers to give them the opportunity to test the technology and ask questions.”  Definitely a new kind of moot court.

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