{"id":"ECO-C-134","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"C","issuer":"Supreme Court of Georgia (Chief Justice Harold D. Melton)","authority":"O.C.G.A. §§ 38-3-60 to -64","instrument":"Order Declaring Statewide Judicial Emergency (as amended)","title":"Order Declaring Statewide Judicial Emergency","dateIssued":"2020-03-14","effective":"2020-03-14","end":"Apr. 13, 2020 11:59 p.m. unless extended; extended by monthly orders (Apr. 6, May 11, June 12, July 10, Aug. 11, Sept. 10, Oct. 10, Nov. 9, Dec. 9, 2020; Jan. 8, Feb. 7, Mar. 9, Apr. 8, May 7, June 7, 2021) to June 30, 2021","startDate":"2020-03-14","endDate":"2021-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["CRT","GATH"],"addressees":["all courts and clerks of court in Georgia","litigants and counsel"],"clause":"[For] the period of this Order, the undersigned hereby suspends, tolls, extends, and otherwise grants relief from any deadlines or other time schedules or filing requirements imposed by otherwise applicable statutes, rules, regulations, or court orders, whether in civil or criminal cases... [including] time within which to serve a party; (10) time within which to appeal","enforcement":"O.C.G.A. § 38-3-63 (notice and service on all judges and clerks)","functions":["CT","OF","PJ","CL","PM"],"notes":"Jury trials suspended statewide March 14 to October 2020 (resumption by local plan from Oct. 10, 2020), suspended again Dec. 9, 2020 to Feb. 7, 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://www.gasupreme.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CJ-Melton-amended-Statewide-Jud-Emergency-order.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":2287709,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"ECO-C","url":"/library/ECO-C-134","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/ECO-C-134","citation":"Supreme Court of Georgia (Chief Justice Harold D. Melton), Order Declaring Statewide Judicial Emergency (as amended) (Mar. 14, 2020) (Ex. ECO-C-134)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["ECO-C-135"]}