{"id":"GA-062","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Chief Justice Harold D. Melton, Supreme Court of Georgia","authority":"O.C.G.A. 38-3-60 to 38-3-64","instrument":"Order Declaring Statewide Judicial Emergency","title":"Statewide judicial emergency (jury trials, grand juries and deadlines suspended)","dateIssued":"2020-03-14","effective":"2020-03-14","end":"2021-06-30 11:59 P.M. (extended fifteen times; Fifteenth Order filed June 7, 2021)","startDate":"2020-03-14","endDate":"2021-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["CRT","GATH"],"addressees":["all courts, clerks, litigants and counsel in Georgia"],"clause":"The March 14, 2020 Judicial Emergency Order suspended, tolled, extended, and [otherwise granted relief from] deadlines... (as recited in Ex. GA-051); Orders regarding the Statewide Judicial Emergency, which expired on June 30, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. (Judicial Council of Georgia, Emergency Judicial Orders page)","enforcement":"Order of the Chief Justice under 38-3-61","functions":["CT courts (jury trials suspended Mar. 14-Oct. 2020 and Dec. 22, 2020-Mar. 2021; deadlines tolled to July 14, 2020; jury and grand jury deadlines tolled to June 30, 2021)","CL foreclosure, eviction and transaction litigation","CB legal-services clients"],"notes":"Recited in EO 04.03.20.02 (Ex. GA-021) and in the Augusta Circuit\u0027s July 1, 2021 order (Ex. GA-051); the Judicial Council states the emergency \u0027expired on June 30, 2021, at 11:59 p.m.\u0027","sourceUrl":"https://www.gasupreme.us/","snapshot":"","fileExists":false,"fileBytes":0,"grade":"secondary","character":"","description":"","collection":"GA","url":"/library/GA-062","exhibitUrl":null,"citation":"Chief Justice Harold D. Melton, Supreme Court of Georgia, Order Declaring Statewide Judicial Emergency (Mar. 14, 2020) (Ex. GA-062)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["GA-021","GA-051","SEC-03-GM-001","SEC-03-GM-013","SEC-03-GM-014","SEC-03-GM-051","SEC-12-GM-122"]}