(Subscription required) Anyone with an internet connection will be able to listen to the court’s live audio feed of Meta’s historic legal row, likely featuring testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, with more than two dozen state attorneys general over youth mental health. That makes the US District Court for the Northern District of California a standout among the country’s 94 federal trial courts, thanks to a local rule change that gives judges the discretion to provide live audio-only feeds of civil jury trials. Federal rules of criminal procedure prohibit criminal trial broadcasting.
