US CIT Eyes Mid-July Reopening: Chief Judge
The U.S. Court of International Trade, site of the massive Section 301 litigation, plans to return about half its staff to its Foley Square location in lower Manhattan by mid-July, Chief Judge Mark Barnett told our affiliated publication Trade Law…
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Daily. The court hasn't had a scheduled staff presence in its building since March 2020, said the judge. The goal is a "sustained reopening" with half the employees continuing to telework for a few months after the summer, he said. Barnett, who took over as chief judge April 5 (see 2104060041), said the early days of his tenure were dominated by how to transition out of a "maximum telework" environment. "If you spoke to any chief judge across the country, that’s what’s occupying a fair degree of our administrative time," he said. "There’s just a lot of different angles to it. There’s staff, you need to think about them. You need to think about what it means in terms of proceedings and how they’re conducted. You need to think about participants in those proceedings and what their status may be, their ability to be in person or not for various reasons."