According to this news release, the Ninth Circuit will offer remote viewing of the upcoming oral arguments in three en banc cases, including the rent control takings case, Guggenheim v. City of Goleta (which we’re following here).
“Remote viewing” does not mean you have to psychically tune into the arguments, nor does it equal webcasting as many state appeals courts do. Instead, it means that if you are in San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle and you find yourself in the neighborhood of the Ninth Circuit’s courthouse in those cities at 2pm on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, you can watch a live video and audio feed.
Get thee to the courthouse: it’s “first-come-first-served” according to the news release.
Us? We’re going to be in L.A. that day, so we plan to camp out on the courthouse steps like those Star Wars and iPhone people to insure ourselves a spot in the Pasadena courtroom.