OMAHA, NE This blog post was removed/edited on July 19th, 2021, in light of the Supreme Court's order on said date. The Court has rescinded its previous orders of March 19, 2020 and April 15, 2020, which had previously allowed filers to prepare unformatted, single copies of Supreme Court filings. Starting September 1, 2021, Rule [...]
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, courts around the world began closing their doors, only to open new modes of communication online and over the telephone. Technology became an operational lifeline. The virus has unearthed the potential of underutilized tools long resisted by judges and court administrative staff. "Remote court" -- from telephonic hearings to video [...]
Though the Supreme Court cancelled its March argument session and extended deadlines for many cases, paper copy filing continues unencumbered here at Cockle. As Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law reported yesterday, "It seems unlikely that the pandemic will spur a shift [at One First Street]. 'Paper filings are still required,' said Patricia McCabe, [...]
Over 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the United States. This makes our prisons a virtual petri dish for the spread of viral illness. In an effort to slow the onset of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. prison system, many prisons have been forced to quickly change their daily operations. Prisons in Arizona and [...]
The outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States has transformed from a looming risk to an outright pandemic. The CDC has emphasized the need to engage in “social distancing” and avoid group settings in order to combat the spread of the virus. The government-announced public and private restrictions become seemingly more stringent with each [...]