Google vs. Oracle Case Postponed Due to Coronavirus (inside.com) 18
An anonymous reader quotes the Dev newsletter from Inside.com:
The U.S. Supreme Court has postponed hearing oral arguments in the Google vs. Oracle copyright case and all other cases because of the coronavirus. It is the first time the Supreme Court has done so since the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918. ["The Court also shortened its argument calendars in August 1793 and August 1798 in response to yellow fever outbreaks," the announcement points out.]
"The court will examine the options for rescheduling those cases in due course in light of the developing circumstances," the announcement added.
Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court were scheduled to hear oral arguments in the Google vs. Oracle case on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, before making a decision a few months later.
"The court will examine the options for rescheduling those cases in due course in light of the developing circumstances," the announcement added.
Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court were scheduled to hear oral arguments in the Google vs. Oracle case on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, before making a decision a few months later.
I wonder (Score:2)
If cases against underprivileged for traffic violations or stealing candy are postponed too? Or swiftly dealt with.
Re: I wonder (Score:1)
Forced to "confess" then tossed in the gulag.
Yes, they are delaying arrests (Score:2)
> If cases against underprivileged for traffic violations or stealing candy are postponed too? Or swiftly dealt with.
You don't have to wonder, Philadelphia is not going to arrest people [fox29.com] for a while due to this virus.
In other news, if it's racist to call it the "China virus" why is calling it the "Spanish flu" acceptable? They're both geographic regions of origin, not races and the people there are not at fault for a virus arising in their midst. It's weird how the oddest stuff becomes political. For e
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the Spanish flu was called so because neutral Spain was one of the only countries not under military censorship at the time, not because it originated there
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Even if that's the case, and there are a lot of theories about where the Spanish flu started, it seems only fair to let the common name be one that blames the asshole government in China that lied and hid the disease until it became a widespread outbreak. I'd be amenable to a name that more squarely blames the CCP than the innocent Chinese people who have suffered, though.
In other news, it's interesting how quickly our media take marching orders from the CCP, though. Are they getting their 50 RMB each tim
Re: Great. (Score:2)
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Roe v Wade getting overturned is not the end of the world. It just means that if American women want to protect their ability to have abortion, they will have to pass federal legislation to enable the right (or even a Constitutional amendment). The Supreme Court was not intended to "legislate from the bench".
This may seem unlikely with the Senate filibuster, but the filibuster is only a procedural rule based on an informal agreement between Senate leaders, which can be revised or struck down at the beginn
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Has anyone tried explaining to them that oral arguments can be delivered electronically these days?
Yes, and many lower court processes are done via video conference, including initial intake, and routine court actions (there are lots of routine decisions where someone is still in a prison orange jumpsuit via video conference from (say) Rikers). Trials with witnesses, on the other hand, have always been required to be in person (confronting your accuser). These arguments, of course, do not involve witnesses, but regardless SCOTUS, has never allowed electronic technology (video, even audio recording by
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but regardless SCOTUS, has never allowed electronic technology (video, even audio recording by reporters) methods, and making such changes now would likely be differently disrupting for the court.
So the SCotUS has to get their act together. There's no reason why SCotUS trials cannot be conducted through video conferencing. The appellant gets their day in court, there's a public record, and the defendant got to confront their accusers in the initial trial. Appeals are just paperwork hearings, not held in front of a jury, where judges decide if there was a violation of judicial process or the law enforced was in contradiction to the CotUS. There's no reason why each justice needs to be in the room
Delayed (Score:1)
Re: Delayed (Score:2)
No, it was first submitted during quiet moments of Black Death. SCO vs IBM was during Spanish Flu.
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That's approximately what I thought it said when I first glanced at it.
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Makes sense, but now on goes my tin foil hat.
There are 2 big political cases I know of in the current session, one is the ObamaCare Case and the other is about Abortion, both delayed
The outcome of these cases will influence the Pres Election.
The Obama case was already heard and presented to the SC, they decided to wait to next year before announcing the outcome
I strongly suspect the same is true for the abortion case. In 2004, the SC had no issues with announcing that judgement on Gay Marriage, which I am
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In 2004, the SC had no issues with announcing that judgement on Gay Marriage, which I am sure that impacted the Pres Election
In what manner?
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When it was made legal (in a narrow ruling only applicable to Massachusetts), many swing states added a ballot question to make Gay Marriage Illegal, that drew out a lot of people who would not have normally voted, thus electing Bush. Ohio was one who had that question on the Ballot.
That was another close election, though not as close as 2000
The general problem of keeping courts open (Score:2)
Earlier in the week, Slate ran an article on the vulnerability of courts to the virus, given the demographics of the people on trial, in te galleries, and on juries. This attracted a lot of attention, but it was one of those magic Slate articles that is on the front page just one morning, and then disappears from the site entirely rather than being moved down into the preceding stories part of the page. This usually means that someone in the comments section has hit a nerve.