Public health concerns related to COVID-19 continue to alter the Supreme Court’s practices. At Bloomberg Law, Kimberly Robinson reports that yesterday “[t]he U.S. Supreme Court joined the chorus of federal courts across the country trying to reduce paper filings amid the coronavirus outbreak,” suspending some of its filing requirements for cert-stage briefs and stating that some routine motions should be filed electronically. At Reason’s Volokh Conspiracy blog (via How Appealing), Josh Blackman argues that “[t]this policy should be the new normal.” At Dorf on Law, Michael Dorf predicts that “[o]ne technology the justices are unlikely to embrace is live or even recorded video,” because of their “camera-phobia.”
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