{"id":"SC-047","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"South Carolina","state":"SC","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of South Carolina","authority":"S.C. Const. art. V, § 4; Appellate Case No. 2020-000447","instrument":"Order re Operation of the Trial Courts During the Coronavirus Emergency (2020-04-03-01)","title":"Statewide trial-court operations order: jury trials continued; hearings remote or limited to ten persons","dateIssued":"2020-04-03","effective":"2020-04-03 (immediately) \u0027until modified or rescinded\u0027","end":"Amended Apr. 14 and Apr. 22, 2020 (SC-048), Dec. 16, 2020 (SC-052), Mar. 4, 2021, June 15, 2021 (SC-054); replaced Aug. 27, 2021 (SC-056)","startDate":"2020-04-03","endDate":"2020-04-22","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["CRT","GATH","EMP"],"addressees":["all trial courts (circuit, family, probate, master-in-equity, summary courts)","lawyers, litigants, jurors and law enforcement"],"clause":"Jury Trials. All jury selections and jury trials in all criminal and civil cases are continued until further notice.... A hearing on a motion or other matter may be conducted using remote communication technology... If an in-person hearing is conducted, only attorneys, the parties, and necessary witnesses will be allowed to appear. The total number of participants should not exceed ten (10) people.... Until further order of this Court, preliminary hearings will not be conducted.... the due dates for all trial court filings due on or after the effective date of this order are hereby extended for thirty (30) days.","enforcement":"\u0027In the event of a conflict between this order and [the court rules]... this order shall control\u0027; replaces the Chief Justice\u0027s Mar. 16, 2020 memoranda and the Mar. 18 family-court order","functions":["CT courts (jury trials suspended; in-person hearings capped)","CL closings (remote oaths; notaries for depositions)","PJ client litigation projects","CB legal-services customer base"],"notes":"Also stayed deadlines under scheduling orders issued before Apr. 3, 2020 retroactive to Mar. 13, 2020, \u0027until forty-five (45) days following the date on which the Governor lifts or rescinds the emergency orders\u0027 (as later restated in SC-052 and SC-054).","sourceUrl":"https://www.sccourts.org/media/courtOrders/HTMLFiles/2020-04-03-01.htm","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":141551,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SC","url":"/library/SC-047","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SC-047","citation":"Supreme Court of South Carolina, Order re Operation of the Trial Courts During the Coronavirus Emergency (2020-04-03-01) (Ex. SC-047)","stateName":"South Carolina","related":["SC-048","SC-052","SC-054","SC-056","SC-050"]}