(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.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a $12 million judgment against a San Diego-based lender accused of conspiring with the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute to create a student-loan program that was purportedly designed to defraud pupils and evade regulators in violation of federal law.

When the justices returned to the bench in October 2021, their approach to oral arguments had undergone a revolution. The aftershocks are still reverberating. The justices allowed live audio of the arguments, letting the public hear what went on in the courtroom in real time from anywhere in the world. They also revised the format of the arguments, adopting an ungainly hybrid that started with a familiar free-for-all barrage of questions and ended with one-by-one queries in order of the justices’ seniority.

(Subscription required) The Commission on Judicial Performance will hear oral argument Oct. 7 in its misconduct case against Los Angeles County Judge Robert S. Draper, who lost reelection in June. The commission filed seven counts against Draper in January, alleging misconduct including bias, improper communications, disclosure of confidential court materials, inappropriate contacts with litigants and colleagues and failure to cooperate with its investigation.