U.S.: It's going to be an unusual May in the Supreme Court Monday, May 4, 2020

ABA Journal

For the first time in recent memory, the Supreme Court will be holding oral arguments in May, and for the first time ever, they will be by telephone. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, oral arguments were canceled in the Supreme Court in March and April.

There is precedent for this: During the Spanish flu epidemic in October 1918 the court canceled arguments for a month, and before that, shortened argument calendars for yellow fever outbreaks in 1793 and 1798.

Interestingly, the court did not reschedule oral arguments for May for all of the cases that were scheduled to be heard in March or April.

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