US Judiciary to Consider Limited Public Broadcasting After Covid

Federal courts could continue their Covid-19 era practice of broadcasting civil and bankruptcy proceedings with new restrictions under a recommendation to the judiciary’s policymaking body.

Judge Nancy Brasel, of the US District Court for the District of Minnesota, said a judicial committee on court administration will recommend the Judicial Conference vote on language that “authorizes remote public audio access to civil and bankruptcy proceedings in which a witness is not testifying.”

The announcement came Friday during a panel discussion on remote court proceedings at the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference in Bloomington, Minn.

Brasel served as a liaison on the Judicial ...