Attorneys are objecting to tougher rules for bringing laptop computers, cell phones and other electronic devices into Manhattan’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse.
Bar associations plan to ask Southern District federal judges next week to abandon an interim rule requiring a specific court order to bring specific computers, cell phones and other devices through entry security and into courtrooms.
Read the rules on cell phones and laptops.
At a hearing set for July 29, and in written comments to the court, the groups also will try to fend off proposed stricter permanent rules on the use of the devices, which one lawyer called “an essential part of modern life.”
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