Clay County Public Health Center (Director Gary Zaborac) (report); orders signed by the Director under a county state of emergency declared by Presiding Commissioner Jerry Nolte, Clay County Public Health Center Annual Report 2020 ('In the year of 2020 COVID-19' timeline of public health emergency orders) (Mar. 1, 2021) (Ex. MET-KC-074)
Summit County Health Department (page); Health Officer Philip Bondurant (order announced), Public Health Order for junior high and middle schools (Sept. 23, 2021), as announced on the Department's coronavirus page (Ex. MET-SLC-019)
Shelby County Health Department, Shelby County Health Department directive requiring universal indoor masking in schools and daycares (August 2021; numbered Health Directive No. 24 in the Department's sequence) (Ex. MET-BNA-077)
Shelby County Health Department, Shelby County Health Order No. 26 (Ex. MET-BNA-078)
Arkansas Department of Health (closure order) and Governor Asa Hutchinson (statement of July 6, 2020), as reported by KATV (Little Rock), ADH order of July 4, 2020 closing Brewski's Pub & Grub, Little Rock, as an imminent threat to public health (news report) (July 6, 2020) (Ex. DUT-AR-016)
Montgomery County Board of Health (Chair Michael Laign), unanimous vote of Nov. 13, 2020, Board of Health order requiring all public and private K-12 schools in Montgomery County to provide virtual-only instruction and suspending extracurricular activities and sports (Nov. 13, 2020) (Ex. MET-PHL-088)
Secretary of Health Tracie C. Collins, M.D, Public Health Emergency Order of February 24, 2021 (Turquoise level added) and its March 2021 reissue (Feb. 24, 2021) (Ex. NM-076)
Texas Education Agency (Commissioner Mike Morath), TEA Public Health Planning Guidance for the 2020-21 school year (July 7, 2020; on-campus instruction with masks required; parental choice of remote; attendance-funding flexibility of July 14-17, 2020 for up to eight weeks of remote instruction), and the Aug. 5 and Aug. 19, 2021 public health guidance (mask provision not enforced during the GA-38 litigation) (Ex. SEC-15-090)
Pennsylvania Department of Education (Secretary Pedro A. Rivera; Acting Secretary Noe Ortega), Preliminary Guidance for Phased Reopening of Pre-K to 12 Schools (June 3, 2020) requiring a board-approved Health and Safety Plan before any school entity reopens (Ex. AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-070)
Acting Secretary of Health David R. Scrase, M.D., New Mexico Department of Health, Public Health Emergency Order of August 17, 2021 (masks): face masks required in all indoor public settings, including schools, regardless of vaccination status (Aug. 17, 2021) (Ex. ECO-B-091)
Austin-Travis County Health Authority (Dr. Mark Escott), Notice of Rules: Health Authority Rules of December 15, 2020 (Dec. 15, 2020) (Ex. MET-AUS-029)
Chester County Board of Commissioners; Chester County Health Department (Jeanne Casner, Director, 2020; Jeanne Franklin, Public Health Director, 2021); President Judge of the 15th Judicial District, Chester County instruments: COVID-19 disaster emergency declaration (March 2020); intergovernmental agreement to serve Delaware County (approved Mar. 18, 2020; ended July 31, 2021); Health Department school guidance (Aug. 4, 2020) and 2021-22 close-contact, symptomatic and antigen-testing instructions (Aug. 2021); 'Simple Ask: Wear a Mask' campaign (2020); First Amended Declaration of Judicial Emergency of the Court of Common Pleas (2020) (Ex. MET-PHL-090)
Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, Health Director Pat Lopez, with Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird, Lincoln-Lancaster County Directed Health Measure of August 2021 (indoor face coverings) (Aug. 24, 2021) (Ex. NE-089)
California Department of Public Health, CDPH, COVID-19 Public Health Guidance for K-12 Schools in California, 2021-22 School Year (July 12, 2021, as later amended) (Ex. ECO-B-086)
Nebraska DHHS, Chief Medical Officer / Director of Public Health Gary Anthone, M.D, Directed Health Measure Order 2020-009 (statewide) (cross-reference to Ex. NE-008; not re-saved) (Apr. 3, 2020) (Ex. DUT-NE-033)
Mayor Martin J. Walsh; Licensing Board for the City of Boston; Boston Public Schools, City of Boston announcement of Mar. 15, 2020: public health emergency declared; Boston Public Schools closure from Mar. 17; Licensing Board restrictions on restaurants, bars and clubs (Ex. MET-BOS-007)
State Health Commissioner M. Norman Oliver, M.D. (Public Health Emergency Order, Aug. 12, 2021), Public Health Emergency Order requiring masks indoors in K-12 schools (Aug. 12, 2021) (Ex. ECO-B-156)
Wayne County Local Health Department, Carol Austerberry, Health Officer, Emergency Public Health Order # 20-01 (Mar. 26, 2020) (Ex. MET-DET-056)
Genesee County Health Department (Medical Health Officer Dr. Pamela Hackert), Genesee County Health Department Emergency Order: Masking in educational settings (August 12, 2021), with the Emergency Orders Regarding Masks of September 2, 2021 and School Masking Order Update 1.2 of September 10, 2021 (Aug. 12, 2021) (Ex. MI-082)
Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), BESE emergency rule of July 14, 2020 - Minimum Health and Safety Standards for the Reopening of Louisiana Schools (2020-2021), as described in BESE's release (Ex. LA-072)
Nebraska DHHS, Chief Medical Officer, Directed Health Measure Order 2020-010 (and 2020-011) (Apr. 9, 2020) (Ex. NE-009)
Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Orders of the Health Officer of March 13 and March 17, 2020 closing all schools, colleges and universities (initially through April 3, then April 30, 2020) (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. MET-RIV-059)
New York State Department of Health (New York Forward), Interim Guidance for Higher Education During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (June 26, 2020) (Ex. SEC-27-002)
City of Milwaukee, acting through its Commissioner of Health (Jeanette Kowalik), Moving Milwaukee Forward Order #1, COVID-19 Public Health Plan for the City of Milwaukee ('Milwaukee Safe at Home') (May 14, 2020) (Ex. MET-MKE-074)
City of Milwaukee, acting through its Commissioner of Health, Moving Milwaukee Forward Order #2, COVID-19 Public Health Plan for the City of Milwaukee (Phase 2) (May 21, 2020) (Ex. MET-MKE-075)
City of Milwaukee, acting through its Commissioner of Health, Moving Milwaukee Forward Order #3, COVID-19 Public Health Plan for the City of Milwaukee (Phase 3) (early June 2020) (June 5, 2020) (Ex. MET-MKE-076)
School District of Philadelphia (Superintendent William R. Hite Jr.), implementing the Mayor's and Health Commissioner's orders requiring masks indoors at schools (Exs. MET-PHL-018, 019), School District of Philadelphia 2021-22 health and safety plan: universal masking of students and staff regardless of vaccination status for the school year opening Aug. 31, 2021 (July 30, 2021) (Ex. MET-PHL-092)
Director of Public Health and Human Services, City of Columbia, City of Columbia Health Director Order No. 2020-08 (July 9, 2020) (Ex. MO-049)
Director of Public Health and Human Services, City of Columbia, City of Columbia Health Director Order No. 2020-21 (Mar. 24, 2021) (Ex. MO-058)
Salt Lake County Council (action reported by Utah Public Radio), County Council vote terminating the Health Department's K-6 order of constraint (Aug. 12, 2021) (Ex. MET-SLC-080)
Salt Lake County Council (action reported by KUER), County Council vote of Aug. 12, 2021 (6-3) terminating Public Health Order 2021-2 (Ex. MET-SLC-079)
Wyoming Department of Health, WDH news release of May 13, 2021 (Twenty-seventh Continuations of Orders #1 and #2) (Ex. WY-058)
Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Office of Communications (news release), M-DCPS news release: '2021-2022 M-DCPS Back-to-School COVID-19 Safety Protocols' (Aug. 19, 2021) (Ex. MET-MIA-095)
Governor Jay Inslee, Proclamation 20-9.4 (July 30, 2021): K-12 schools prohibited from operating outside the Department of Health's K-12 requirements (universal indoor masking, distancing, ventilation, testing and reporting) for 2021-22 (Ex. SEC-15-085)
Oakland County Health Division, Leigh-Anne Stafford, Health Officer, Emergency Order (2020-9) for Control of Pandemic (Apr. 17, 2020) (Ex. MET-DET-058)
Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division, OAR 333-019-1015 (Aug. 2, 2021; masking requirements for K-12 schools, public and private) and OAR 333-019-1030 (Aug. 25, 2021; COVID-19 vaccination requirement for teachers and school staff by Oct. 18, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-086)
New York State Department of Health (Commissioner Howard Zucker, M.D., on direction of Governor Kathy Hochul), Emergency regulations: 10 NYCRR 2.60 (Aug. 27, 2021; universal masking in all public and private P-12 schools) and 10 NYCRR 2.62 (Sept. 2, 2021; weekly testing of unvaccinated school personnel) (Ex. SEC-15-087)
Governor Laura Kelly (KS EO 20-59, July 20, 2020: face coverings in schools); Utah Department of Health (State Public Health Order of July 20, 2020: face coverings in all public and private K-12 schools); Governor Kim Reynolds (Iowa Proclamation of July 17, 2020: at least half of instruction in person), The July 17-20, 2020 fall-opening orders of Kansas, Utah and Iowa (grouped record) (July 20, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-092)
Office of Child Care, ACF, HHS, CCDF-ACF-IM-2021-02, ARP Act Child Care Stabilization Grants (May 10, 2021) (Ex. AGY-FED-HEALTH-OTHER-093)
Commissioner Jeffrey C. Riley (memorandum to the Board); Board vote of September 29, 2020, Memorandum on the adoption of 603 CMR 27.08 (Board meeting of September 29, 2020, item 4, with tracked text and public comment) (Sept. 29, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-066)
Medical Director Michael P. Hirsh, M.D., Worcester Division of Public Health (City of Worcester), Two Emergency Orders: (1) Mandating Face Coverings in Public, Private, Parochial and Charter Schools; (2) Requiring Employers to Report Positive Cases in the Workplace (Sept. 3, 2021) (Ex. MET-BOS-130)
Secretary of Higher Education (Office of the Secretary of Higher Education), under Executive Order No. 155 para. 2, Restart Standards for All New Jersey Institutions of Higher Education (June 18, 2020) (Ex. SEC-27-003)
Secretary of Public Education Ryan Stewart, 6.12.15 NMAC, COVID-19 School Requirements (emergency rule filed August 12, 2021) (Aug. 12, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-049)
Washington State Department of Health (incorporated by Proclamation 20-09.4), DOH 820-105, K-12 COVID-19 Requirements for Summer 2021 and the 2021-2022 School Year (later retitled Requirements and Guidance to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission in K-12 Schools) (July 28, 2021) (Ex. WA-076)
Georgia Department of Public Health, Tenth Amended Administrative Order (isolation and quarantine) (Dec. 4, 2020) (Ex. GA-067)
Ohio Department of Health (Director Amy Acton), Director's Order to close all child care facilities except Temporary Pandemic Child Care (Mar. 24, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-125)
Governor Gavin Newsom / California Department of Public Health, CDPH COVID-19 and Reopening In-Person Learning Framework for K-12 Schools in California, 2020-2021 School Year (July 17, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-143)
City of Chelsea (City Manager; Board of Health), City of Chelsea page 'Closures, Businesses, and Public Gathering Restrictions' (April 2020), including the Chelsea Emergency Order delivered to Market Basket, Compare and other large retailers (Mar. 24, 2020) (Ex. MET-BOS-110)
Director, Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services, Boone County Order No. 2020-18C (Jan. 14, 2021) (Ex. MO-055)
Director, Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services, Boone County Order No. 2020-21C (Mar. 24, 2021) (Ex. MO-057)
Amy Acton, MD, MPH, Director, Ohio Department of Health, Director's Order to Close Facilities Providing Child Care Services (except Temporary Pandemic Child Care licensees) (Mar. 24, 2020) (Ex. OH-010)
Amy Acton, MD, MPH, Director, Ohio Department of Health, Amended Director's Order the Closure of All K-12 Schools in the State of Ohio (March 30, 2020) (Mar. 30, 2020) (Ex. OH-054)
Andrea Palm, Secretary-designee, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Emergency Order #6 (March 18, 2020) (Mar. 18, 2020) (Ex. WI-036)
Department of Labor Standards and Department of Public Health (with the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development), under COVID-19 Order No. 33, s. 2, Mandatory Safety Standards for Workplaces (Reopening Massachusetts, May 18, 2020), with the sector-specific workplace safety standards, protocol summaries and checklists issued under Order No. 33 s. 2 (May 2020 to May 2021) (Ex. DUT-MA-033)
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (Director Robert Gordon), MDHHS Emergency Order, Gatherings and Face Mask Order (Nov. 15, 2020), extended Dec. 7, 2020 (Ex. ECO-B-076)
Ohio Department of Health (Director Lance Himes, interim), Director's Order Requiring the Use of Facial Coverings in Child Education Settings (K-12) (Aug. 13, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-118)
Ohio Department of Health (Director Amy Acton), Third Amended Director's Order for the Closure of K-12 Schools in the State of Ohio (May 2020) (May 20, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-119)
Ohio Department of Health (Director Amy Acton), Second Amended Order the Closure of K-12 Schools in the State of Ohio (Apr. 2020) (Apr. 1, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-122)
Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education (Health and Safety Committee), Masks On For Me campaign page (Aug. 2020) referencing the district's face-mask requirement (Aug. 1, 2020) (Ex. MET-CIN-042)
Mayor Quinton Lucas (with the Director of Health), Second Amended Order 20-01 (stay at home) (Mar. 21, 2020) (Ex. MET-KC-013)
East Baton Rouge Parish School System (Superintendent, on the recommendation of its Health Advisory Committee), EBRPSS COVID-19 Guidelines for the 2021-2022 School Year (announced Aug. 3, 2021) (Ex. MET-MSY-080)
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (Director Robert Gordon), MDHHS Emergency Order under MCL 333.2253: Gatherings and Face Mask Order ('Pause to Save Lives') (Nov. 15, 2020) (Ex. MI-060)
Lincoln Public Schools (Superintendent Steve Joel), following Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department guidance, Lincoln Public Schools face-covering requirement for the 2021-22 school year (KLKN report, Aug. 5, 2021) (Ex. NE-109)
New Jersey Department of Health (Acting Commissioner Jeffrey A. Brown for the 2025 revision), Executive Directive No. 21-011 (5th Revision, August 21, 2025) (Sept. 14, 2021) (Ex. NJ-082)
Director Robert Gordon, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, MDHHS Emergency Order: Gatherings and Face Mask Order of November 15, 2020 (in-person instruction at high schools and colleges suspended Nov. 18-Dec. 8, 2020; extended Dec. 7 to Dec. 20, 2020) (Nov. 15, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-078)
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (Director Robert Gordon), Emergency Order: Gatherings and Face Mask Order (Pause to Save Lives) (Nov. 15, 2020) (Ex. SEC-16-024)
Nevada State Board of Health, Emergency Regulation R073-21 amending NAC 441A.755 (COVID-19 vaccination required for enrollment at Nevada System of Higher Education institutions on or after Nov. 1, 2021) (Aug. 20, 2021) (Ex. SEC-27-016)
Andrea Palm, Secretary-designee, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Emergency Order #1 (March 13, 2020) (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. WI-034)
Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Board Report 21-0224-EX6, Ratify Tentative Agreement Between the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and the Chicago Teachers Union, Local 1, IFT-AFT, AFL-CIO Regarding the Return to In-Person Learning for Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 8 and Special Education Cluster Programs (Feb. 24, 2021) (Ex. AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-004)
Washoe County School District Board of Trustees (July 2020, after a nearly ten-hour meeting), WCSD 2020-21 reopening plan: elementary full-time in person; middle and high school hybrid; full-time distance option; masks and distancing per the Governor's directives (Aug. 5, 2020) (Ex. MET-LAS-041)
New Mexico Public Education Department, Reentry Guide, Version 3 (January 2021) (Jan. 29, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-067)
Wyoming Legislature (Sixty-fifth Legislature, 2020 Special Session, May 15-16, 2020); sponsor Management Council; chapter assigned May 20, 2020, Senate File No. SF1002, 'Emergency powers-Covid-19-2', Senate Enrolled Act No. 2, 2020 Wyo. Sess. Laws (Special Session) ch. 2 (standing) (Ex. DUT-WY-010)
Governor Eric J. Holcomb, Executive Order 20-05 (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-063)
Ballotpedia (secondary source; Burbio data), Ballotpedia, 'School responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the 2020-2021 academic year' (July 8, 2021) (Ex. ECO-B-106)
Governor Douglas A. Ducey, Executive Order of June 29, 2020 delaying the start of in-person instruction to August 17, 2020 (EO 2020-41), and Executive Order of July 23, 2020 (EO 2020-51) requiring schools to open at least one on-site location from August 17 while instruction remained remote absent ADHS benchmarks (Ex. ECO-B-142)
Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, BESE emergency rule revision of May 12, 2021 - face covering policy; expiration of minimum standards June 30, 2021 (Ex. LA-073)
Austin ISD Superintendent Stephanie S. Elizalde (announced at the Board of Trustees meeting of August 9, 2021; Board President Geronimo Rodriguez quoted), Austin ISD announcement 'Masks Mandated at Austin ISD' (August 9, 2021) (Aug. 9, 2021) (Ex. MET-AUS-089)
County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks, Executive Order 14-2021 (May 26, 2021), as amended by Executive Order 17-2021 (June 28, 2021) (Ex. MET-DCM-124)
Clark County School District Board of Trustees (unanimous vote, Tuesday July 21, 2020), Board approval of full-time distance education to start the 2020-21 school year (July 21, 2020) (Ex. MET-LAS-040)
Mayor Erin Mendenhall (release), Mayor's recommendation to the City Council to extend the K-12 mask order (release of Sept. 13, 2021) (Ex. MET-SLC-033)
Governor Ron DeSantis, Executive Order 21-175 (July 30, 2021) (Ex. SEC-15-040)
Governor Tate Reeves, Executive Order 1460 (Mar. 19, 2020: all public schools closed through Apr. 17, 2020) and Executive Order 1476 (recited as Apr. 22, 2020: all public school buildings closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year) (Ex. SEC-15-093)
United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee (Lipman, J.), G.S. ex rel. Schwaigert v. Lee, No. 2:21-cv-02552, 2021 WL 4057812 (W.D. Tenn. Sept. 3, 2021) (temporary restraining order) (Ex. TN-086)
Governor Steve Sisolak, Declaration of Emergency Directive 044 (Transition to Local Control), Apr. 19, 2021, ss. 4, 5, 6 (Ex. NV-038)
