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Judge Merritt, who chairs the U.S. Judicial Conference, talked about televising federal appellate court proceedings, especially the issues involved and why the committee decided to allow fed…

Current news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…

Ms. House talked about the 1994-95 Supreme Court term thus far and timetable for the Court for the next two months. She also talked about how the justices decide which cases to hear.

Supreme Court public information officer, Toni House, spoke about the preparations for the new Supreme Court term.

Ms. House talked about the responsibilities of the pulbic information office and how it helps inform people about the work of the Supreme Court.

Continuing her interview, U.S. Supreme Court public information officer Toni House described the interior of the courtroom chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court and its recent redecoration. Vide…

Ms. House discussed the preparations of the Supreme Court for the upcoming term, including the transition between the retirement of Justice Byron White and the beginning of the term of new J…

Attorneys and legal scholars analyzed the 1992-1993 term of the U.S. Supreme Court during the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference in Hot Springs, Virginia. Issues raised included the hate cri…

Ms. House discussed the process through which the Supreme Court releases its final decisions of the session in an interview interspersed with scenes from the Supreme Court public information…

Ms. House discussed the creation of the first conference of court public information officers and the relationship between the courts and the media.

The National Center for State Courts sponsored the national conference of Court Public Information Officers, during which court correspondents took part in a panel discussion on media relati…

Mr. O’Brien, professor of government at the University of Virginia, spoke about the origins, history, and functions of the Supreme Court. He also explained the Supreme Court’s appointment pr…

Toni House, public information officer for the U.S. Supreme Court, discussed the duties of the Supreme Court’s public information office, and the office’s activities involved in preparing fo…

The panel is from the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. The topic was on how journalists cover the Supreme Court.

The discussion included the process of releasing Supreme Court decisions and the frenzy in the Court’s press room when the Webster abortion decision was handed down.