May 21, 2012
Cameras in Fed. Courts. |
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The glacial pace at which tech is allowed into federal courtrooms may delay it beyond my working life. Now, the door has been opened a crack, with a pilot at certain federal courtrooms, but limited to civil cases where all parties consent to having the camera 'on' and too, where the Judge can decide not to have it 'on.'
That necessarily will curtail coverage of motion hours, where a parade of civil cases are heard one after another. If one litigant among many will not consent, then it probably is easier just to keep the camera off altogether.
The consent approach delegates a limit on newgathering to litigants and their counsel, who may just as well keep things under wraps.