{"id":"AL-064","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Alabama","state":"AL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of Alabama","authority":"Ala. Const. 1901, art. VI, §§ 139, 140, 150","instrument":"Administrative Order No. 13: Declaring a Temporary State of Emergency and Authorizing the Use of Audio/Video Technologies in Place of In-Person Proceedings","title":"Second judicial state of emergency (Delta wave); rules impeding audio-video proceedings superseded from August 23 to November 29, 2021","dateIssued":"2021-08-20","effective":"2021-08-23","end":"2021-11-29","startDate":"2021-08-23","endDate":"2021-11-29","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["CRT","EMER"],"addressees":["every circuit, district, juvenile, family, municipal, probate and accountability court","litigants and witnesses"],"clause":"The Supreme Court of Alabama... hereby declares a temporary state of emergency for the entire Judicial Branch of the State of Alabama due to recent increases in COVID-19 infections in certain areas of the State of Alabama and, effective August 23, 2021, promulgates the following temporary rule regarding the use of audio/video technologies: Subject to any party\u0027s substantive or constitutional rights, to the extent that any Alabama rule or statute governing the administration of, or practice and procedure in, any court impedes a judge\u0027s ability to use, or to authorize a court clerk\u0027s use of, available audio/video technologies, rather than conducting in-person proceedings, those rules and statutes are temporarily superseded until November 29, 2021.","enforcement":"Supervisory authority of the Supreme Court; rules and statutes superseded","functions":["CT (in-person proceedings displaced by audio-video at judicial discretion, Q3 2021)","CL","SV"],"notes":"A Q3 2021 governmental order limiting in-person court commerce statewide, issued on the same facts as the Governor\u0027s August 13 emergency.","sourceUrl":"https://judicial.alabama.gov/docs/AdministrativeOrderNo_13.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":71965,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AL","url":"/library/AL-064","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AL-064","citation":"Supreme Court of Alabama, Administrative Order No. 13: Declaring a Temporary State of Emergency and Authorizing the Use of Audio/Video Technologies in Place of In-Person Proceedings (Aug. 20, 2021) (Ex. AL-064)","stateName":"Alabama","related":["AL-063","AL-062"]}