{"id":"IA-048","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Iowa (all State courts)","state":"IA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Iowa Supreme Court (Chief Justice Susan Larson Christensen)","authority":"Iowa Const. art. V, §§ 1, 4; supervisory authority over the courts","instrument":"Supervisory Order, In the Matter of Ongoing Preparation for Coronavirus/COVID-19 Impact on Court Services","title":"Order continuing all criminal jury trials not commenced to no earlier than April 20, 2020, continuing civil jury trials, continuing civil nonjury trials and hearings set before May 4, 2020, suspending grand jury proceedings to April 20, and suspending in-person appellate arguments through May 15, 2020","dateIssued":"2020-03-14","effective":"2020-03-14","end":"Superseded by the March 17, April 2 and May 22, 2020 orders (IA-049, IA-050, IA-051)","startDate":"2020-03-14","endDate":"2020-05-22","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["all Iowa district and appellate courts, clerks, attorneys, litigants and jurors"],"clause":"\u0027All criminal jury trials that have not commenced as of March 13, 2020... [scheduled to begin before] April 20, 2020 shall be continued to a date no earlier than April 20.... Other than criminal jury trials already in progress, there will be no criminal jury trials until April 20.... All grand jury proceedings shall be suspended until April 20.... All civil jury trials that have not commenced as of March 13... shall be continued to a date to be determined at a future time.... [civil nonjury trials and hearings] scheduled to begin before May 4 shall be continued... Through May 15, 2020, the appellate courts will not hear in-person [oral arguments].\u0027","enforcement":"Supervisory order binding on all Iowa courts","functions":["CT courts: trials, hearings and jury service suspended","CL closings and foreclosures dependent on court process delayed","SV collections and evictions dependent on court dates delayed"],"notes":"First of the Iowa Supreme Court\u0027s COVID-19 supervisory orders; the OCR text also carries the March 12, 2020 preparation order\u0027s guidance to the \u0027100 courthouses.\u0027","sourceUrl":"https://www.iowacourts.gov/collections/470/files/1049/embedDocument/","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":8036339,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"IA","url":"/library/IA-048","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/IA-048","citation":"Iowa Supreme Court (Chief Justice Susan Larson Christensen), Supervisory Order, In the Matter of Ongoing Preparation for Coronavirus/COVID-19 Impact on Court Services (Mar. 14, 2020) (Ex. IA-048)","stateName":"Iowa","related":["IA-049","IA-050","IA-051"]}