Law Practice,
Judges and Judiciary
Mar. 20, 2020
Voir dire, from a distance
Jury selection involves a lot of people in close proximity. The temporary stays of trials currently in place will soon give way, and some trials will have to proceed. But we must minimize the time people are near each other. Here’s one idea.
Civic Center Courthouse
Curtis E.A. Karnow
Judge
San Francisco County Superior Court
Trials, Settlements
Judge Karnow is author of "Litigation in Practice" (2017) and current co-author of Weil & Brown et al., "California Practice Guide: Civil Procedure Before Trial" (Rutter).
Jury selection involves a lot of people in close proximity. The temporary stays of trials currently in place will soon give way, and some trials will have to proceed. Let us exchange ideas on this now; perhaps legislation will be needed, but aside from that note I express no opinion on whether the ideas below are or are not within the purview of a judge's current authority to impose. Anyway, parties and their lawyers have, I would think, an obligation to agree, when t...
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