{"id":"MET-ATL-029","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Cobb County, Georgia (Magistrate Court)","state":"GA","metro":"ATL","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Chief Magistrate Judge Brendan F. Murphy, Magistrate Court of Cobb County","authority":"Statewide Judicial Emergency Orders (O.C.G.A. § 38-3-61 et seq.)","instrument":"Letter of the Chief Magistrate regarding dispossessory (eviction) cases and small claims, July 14, 2020","title":"Chief Magistrate\u0027s letter: no eviction hearings or writs of possession since March 14, 2020; landlord/tenant and small-claims calendars cancelled through the end of July 2020","dateIssued":"2020-07-14","effective":"2020-07-14","end":"Eviction hearings resumed in stages thereafter; the CDC eviction order (Sept. 4, 2020, federal) then halted covered evictions","startDate":"2020-07-14","endDate":"2020-09-04","quarters":["2020Q3"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["landlords, tenants and small-claims litigants in Cobb County"],"clause":"[The Magistrate Court] has not heard any eviction matters nor released any writs of possession since... Chief Justice Harold D. Melton\u0027s initial Order Declaring Statewide Judicial Emergency on March 14, 2020 (as read from the letter); per the County\u0027s release, \u0027Landlord/Tenant cases along with small claims cases will be cancelled through the end of July per the latest state judicial order.\u0027","enforcement":"Court calendar control","functions":["PM property management (no evictions Mar. 14-July 2020 and beyond)","SV servicing and collections (small claims suspended)","CT courts"],"notes":"Real-estate and financial-services counterparties: four and a half months without eviction hearings in Georgia\u0027s third-largest county.","sourceUrl":"https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cobbcounty.org.if-us-west-2/prod/2020-07/cobb_magistrate_dispossessory_letter_july_14_2020.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200918043525/https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cobbcounty.org.if-us-west-2/prod/2020-07/cobb_magistrate_dispossessory_letter_july_14_2020.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":87374,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-ATL","url":"/library/MET-ATL-029","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-ATL-029","citation":"Chief Magistrate Judge Brendan F. Murphy, Magistrate Court of Cobb County, Letter of the Chief Magistrate regarding dispossessory (eviction) cases and small claims, July 14, 2020 (Ex. MET-ATL-029)","stateName":"Georgia","related":[]}