Over five years ago, the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit began posting selected oral argument videos online on YouTube. More recently, the Ninth Circuit has begun to live-stream and provide on-demand video access to all current oral arguments via YouTube. The Ninth Circuit has numerous courtroom locations throughout the western United States, and successfully implementing live and archived online oral argument video cannot have been an easy task.

For whatever reason, no other federal appellate court has yet followed the Ninth Circuit onto YouTube to offer either live or archived video access to oral arguments. That, however, may be about to change. A few months ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Third Circuit Chief Judge Theodore A. McKee when the Advisory Committee on Federal Appellate Rules held a public meeting in Philadelphia.

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