Since March 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has been conducting oral arguments on all appeals remotely. The website for the Court has indicated since then that all appeals would be argued by audio only. However, for the past few months, about one-half of oral arguments have been conducted by video, using the Zoom platform. The panel hearing the particular appeal makes the decision on which approach to take. If Zoom will be used, counsel will receive a notice from the clerk of the court about six weeks before the scheduled date for argument giving instructions for its use. Counsel for audio-only arguments receive a similar notice from the clerk at about the same time, indicating the dial-in instructions. Although the website for the court still indicates that all arguments will be audio-only, the publicly accessible dockets for individual appeals reflect the Zoom notice once it has been sent to counsel.

The website for the Second Circuit contains a link for accessing live arguments, whether conducted audio-only or on Zoom. The website also has a page for past arguments that are archived and easily accessible. The website also has a calendar page to list past oral arguments on appeals, so it is easy to marry-up past oral arguments with their calendars. However, it is at times difficult to determine whether those arguments were audio-only or on Zoom by just listening to them. In any event, Zoom arguments—whether live or archived—cannot be watched; only the audio is available to non-parties and the public.