The Orders Library
The Record
Every instrument The COVID Project has retrieved and indexed: who issued it, what it said, when it was in force and who it reached.
Twenty-seven industries
The Industries
How the orders reached each kind of business: its premises, its workforce, its customers, its suppliers and its calendar.
The statute and its readers
The Law
The suspension test as Congress wrote it, the Notice held to what the Government says it is, the cases and the standards of proof.
Six quarters
The Story
What the country was ordered to do from March 2020 through September 2021, quarter by quarter, and why the orders reached every business.
The IRS on the record
The IRS
The sentences IRS letters use, each answered from the public record, and what the United States told two federal courts.
For your own record
Tools
Pick a State, a metro, an industry and the quarters you claimed; get the orders in force, cited, as a printable record.
Contact
Report an error in a record, tell us about a source link that has moved, ask how the site works, or ask to reuse its material. The COVID Project does not provide legal advice and cannot respond to every message.
Used only to answer you, if an answer is needed. Never published, never sold.
If your message is about one State's record, name the State.
For a correction, name the exhibit identifier (for example TX-004) and say what the instrument's own text shows. Do not send taxpayer identification numbers, tax returns or claim files.