Those who follow the workings of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Seventh Circuit are no doubt accustomed to visiting the
court's website (http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov) to read the daily
release of published opinions or to listen to the court's audio
recordings of oral arguments. The former are available here; the latter are available here and normally are posted in the afternoon,
a few hours after that morning's oral arguments.
Court watchers now have a new option available from the Seventh
Circuit: video of certain oral arguments. The court reviewed the
practices of other courts around the country that video-recorded
their oral arguments, and, on May 1, 2018, it adopted Operating Procedure 11, which allows for a
"request for video-recording" to "be submitted to
the Clerk of the Court not later than one week before oral
argument." The Operating Procedure further provides an
opportunity for the parties to object and leaves the decision in
the "sole discretion" of the
