Editor’s note: This commentary is updated. An earlier version was submitted in error. 

One casualty of the COVID-19 crisis is live oral arguments on appeals. As far as we know, there have been none anywhere in the country since mid-March. But while trials—especially jury trials—have ground to a virtual halt, oral arguments have not. They have gone remote. They have done this in two principal ways: by video presentations and by old-fashioned telephone conference calls.