{"id":"ND-085","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"North Dakota","state":"ND","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"North Dakota Supreme Court (Jensen, C.J.)","authority":"N.D.C.C. § 27-02-27 (judicial emergency); N.D. Const. art. VI, § 3; N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. R. 57","instrument":"Administrative Order 25, Coronavirus Pandemic (Declaration of Judicial Emergency), adopted March 16, 2020, amended March 17, April 15, May 20 and June 9, 2020 (text as amended June 9, 2020)","title":"Statewide judicial emergency: civil and criminal jury trials suspended (to April 24, then July 1, 2020); presumptive continuances; guardianship reviews suspended; specialty-court group meetings suspended to May 20, 2020; emergency days treated as legal holidays for time computation","dateIssued":"2020-03-16","effective":"2020-03-16 (immediately)","end":"Jury-trial suspension ended July 1, 2020; the order was later repealed (listed \u0027[REPEALED]\u0027 on the court\u0027s site; repeal date not verified)","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2020-07-01","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["CRT","GATH"],"addressees":["all North Dakota courts, litigants, jurors and attorneys"],"clause":"[¶1] In response to the coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, and as authorized by law, the Justices of the North Dakota Supreme Court declare a state of emergency statewide for the Judicial Branch.... [¶5] After consideration, it is hereby ORDERED: 1. Civil jury trials are suspended until July 1, 2020 unless otherwise ordered by the Court. 2. Criminal jury trials are suspended until July 1, 2020 unless otherwise ordered by the Court.... 6. Continuances and extension requests related to COVID-19 should be presumptively granted.... 9. Unless otherwise ordered, for proceedings suspended under authority of this order the days covered by the judicial emergency are considered legal holidays for time computation under North Dakota\u0027s court rules.","enforcement":"Order of the Supreme Court binding all courts","functions":["CT courts (law firms, lenders, landlords, insurers)","CL closings and collections","SV collections and foreclosure"],"notes":"Companion emergency orders: AO 26 (emergency bail and plea, amended Apr. 1 and 15, 2020), AO 27 (emergency suspension of eviction proceedings, amended Apr. 23, 2020), AO 28-31 (electronic hearings), AO 32 (CLE deadlines), AO 33 (face coverings in courthouses, listed on the court\u0027s page by Dec. 1, 2020). The March 16, 2020 original text and the later amendments are described on the court\u0027s pandemic page (Exs. ND-086, ND-087).","sourceUrl":"https://www.ndcourts.gov/legal-resources/rules/ndsupctadminorder/25","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200618180728/https://www.ndcourts.gov/legal-resources/rules/ndsupctadminorder/25","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":141102,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"ND","url":"/library/ND-085","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/ND-085","citation":"North Dakota Supreme Court (Jensen, C.J.), Administrative Order 25, Coronavirus Pandemic (Declaration of Judicial Emergency), adopted March 16, 2020, amended March 17, April 15, May 20 and June 9, 2020 (text as amended June 9, 2020) (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. ND-085)","stateName":"North Dakota","related":["ND-086","ND-087"]}