Secretary of HHS, Determination that a Public Health Emergency Exists (Jan. 31, 2020, effective Jan. 27, 2020) and renewals (Apr. 21, July 23, Oct. 2, 2020; Jan. 7, Apr. 15, July 19, Oct. 15, 2021) (Ex. SEC-01-019)
Mayor London N. Breed, Proclamation by the Mayor Declaring the Existence of a Local Emergency (Feb. 25, 2020) (Ex. MET-SFO-054)
Chairman, Board of County Commissioners, Executive Order 2020-001 (Mar. 2, 2020) (Ex. MET-ORL-023)
Mayor Derek S. K. Kawakami, Mayor's Emergency Proclamation (COVID-19) (Mar. 4, 2020) (Ex. MET-HNL-065)
Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser (Riverside University Health System-Public Health news release), Declaration of Local Health Emergency (announced by news release) (Mar. 8, 2020) (Ex. MET-RIV-001)
Governor Kim Reynolds, Proclamation of Disaster Emergency (COVID-19) (Mar. 9, 2020) (Ex. IA-001)
Delaware County Council, Resolution continuing the COVID-19 Emergency Declaration (Resolution 31-2020, Mar. 10, 2020) (county PDF 'COVID19Resolution.pdf') (Ex. MET-PHL-072)
Riverside County Board of Supervisors, Resolutions of the Board of Supervisors of March 10, 2020 proclaiming the existence of a Local Emergency and ratifying and extending the Declaration of Local Health Emergency (Mar. 10, 2020) (Ex. MET-RIV-057)
San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors; Acting Health Officer, Declaration of Local Health Emergency and Resolutions of the Board of Supervisors proclaiming a Local Emergency and ratifying and extending the Declaration of Local Health Emergency (March 10, 2020) (Mar. 10, 2020) (Ex. MET-RIV-062)
Mayor Sylvester Turner (Office of the Mayor release), Release: Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo Declare Public Health Emergency Due to COVID-19 (Mar. 11, 2020) (Ex. MET-HOU-044)
Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, Mayor's Proclamation of Emergency (COVID-19), March 12, 2020 (Mar. 12, 2020) (Ex. AK-104)
County Judge KP George, County Judge KP George's Declaration of a Local State of Disaster (county posting) (Mar. 12, 2020) (Ex. MET-HOU-066)
Mayor Quinton Lucas, Proclamation Declaring a State of Emergency (Mar. 12, 2020) and amendments through the Sixth Amended Proclamation (Ex. MET-KC-012)
Hillsborough County Emergency Policy Group, Executive Order of the Hillsborough County Emergency Policy Group declaring a local state of emergency (Mar. 12, 2020), as extended weekly (Ex. MET-TPA-007)
Mayor Jane Castor, City of Tampa Executive Orders 2020-01 (Mar. 12, 2020, declaring a state of local emergency) and 2020-02 (Mar. 16, 2020, revising and readopting it), extended weekly (EOs 2020-03 Mar. 23, 2020-05 Mar. 30, 2020-06 Apr. 6, 2020-07 Apr. 13, 2020-08 Apr. 20, 2020-09 Apr. 27, 2020-10 May 4, 2020 and successors); City EO 2021-24 (May 5, 2021) redeclared and weekly extensions through 2021-2022 (Ex. MET-TPA-023)
Governor John C. Carney, Declaration of a State of Emergency for the State of Delaware Due to a Public Health Threat (Mar. 12, 2020) (Ex. DE-001)
County Manager Mark Schwartz (Director of Emergency Management); ratified by the Arlington County Board, Declaration of Local Emergency (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. MET-DCM-080)
Mayor Jerry L. Demings, as Director of Emergency Management, Emergency Executive Order No. 2020-01 (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. MET-ORL-001)
City of Sacramento (Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Council; Director of Emergency Services), City release of Mar. 12, 2020 announcing the emergency measures adopted at the Mar. 13, 2020 special meeting (local emergency declaration, Resolution 2020-0075; cancellation of special-event permits over 250 persons; eviction prohibition; small business loans) (Ex. MET-SAC-053)
Mayor Linda Gorton, Executive Order 2020-01 (declaration that a state of emergency exists in Lexington-Fayette County) (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. MET-SDF-044)
County Executive Steve Ehlmann, County Executive declaration of emergency (COVID-19), as announced in the County's news release of Mar. 13, 2020 (Ex. MET-STL-026)
Lewis and Clark County Commissioners; Lewis and Clark City-County Board of Health and Health Officer, County COVID-19 emergency declaration of March 13, 2020 (rescinded July 2021) and county public health rules (masks; gathering limits) tightened January 2021 and no longer enforced after HB 257 (May 2021) (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. MT-085)
City of Palm Springs (Director of Emergency Services; City Council ratification), Declaration of the Existence of a Local Emergency (March 14, 2020) (Mar. 14, 2020) (Ex. MET-RIV-067)
Governor Tate Reeves, Proclamation declaring a State of Emergency (COVID-19) (Mar. 14, 2020) (Ex. MS-002)
Clark County Manager Yolanda T. King (declaration); Clark County (termination release), Declaration of Emergency (COVID-19), County Manager, Mar. 15, 2020 (Ex. MET-LAS-002)
Tohono O'odham Legislative Council, Legislative Council Resolution No. 20-094, Authorizing Action for COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. AGY-TRIBAL-051)
Georgia General Assembly (special session), Joint resolution concurring with Executive Order 03.14.20.01 (HR 1EX, 2020 Special Session) (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. GA-002)
County Administrator Tim Hemstreet (Director of Emergency Management) with the concurrence of Board Chair Phyllis J. Randall; ratified by the Board of Supervisors March 17, 2020, Declaration of Local Emergency (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. MET-DCM-100)
Washoe County (County Manager Eric Brown; Board of County Commissioners Chair Bob Lucey); release by Communications Manager Bethany Drysdale, Washoe County Declaration of Emergency (COVID-19) (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. MET-LAS-030)
Board of County Commissioners, Resolution 20-054R (State of Local Emergency) and extensions 20-055R, 20-056R, 20-059R (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. MET-ORL-022)
City of Vancouver (City Manager's Office), listing Emergency Orders 2020-02 through 2020-17 and the Declaration of Civil Emergency, City Emergency Orders index (Declaration of Civil Emergency; Emergency Orders 2020-02 to 2020-17), as captured in 2021 (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. MET-PDX-026)
Houston City Council and Mayor (Office of the Mayor release), Release: City Extends Emergency Disaster Declaration; Mayor Turner Cancels City Events Through April (Mar. 17, 2020) (Ex. MET-HOU-045)
County Executive Barry Glassman, Declaration of a State of Emergency in Harford County due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Mar. 18, 2020), as announced by the county (Ex. MET-BAL-095)
Mayor John Cooper, Executive Order No. 6 (Mar. 18, 2020) (Ex. MET-BNA-086)
Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services (John Hellerstedt, M.D.), Declaration of Public Health Disaster (March 19, 2020), renewed at 30-day intervals (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. DUT-TX-009)
Mayor Bernard C. 'Jack' Young, Declaration of a State of Emergency for Baltimore City (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. MET-BAL-001)
Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Board Report 20-0325-RS1, Resolution Authorizing Expenditures and Actions in Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (Mar. 25, 2020) (Ex. AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-001)
Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Board Report 20-0325-RU1, Adopt Board Rule 2-4.2 - Emergency Authority in the Event of a Declared State of Emergency on an Interim Basis (Mar. 25, 2020) (Ex. AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-002)
Governor David Y. Ige (release by the Hawaii Department of Transportation), Second Supplementary Proclamation (Mar. 21, 2020) as described in the HDOT release of Mar. 21, 2020 (Ex. ECO-C-010)
Maryland Department of Health (Secretary Robert R. Neall), MDH Order of March 27, 2020, Designation of Health Officers (Quarantine) (Mar. 27, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-058)
St. Louis County Department of Public Health, Residential Living Facilities Order (April 2, 2020) (Apr. 2, 2020) (Ex. MET-STL-056)
Governor Kay Ivey, Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamations of April 13, June 9, August 21 and December 11, 2020 and March 22, 2021 (Apr. 13, 2020) (Ex. AL-097)
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 Steve Sisolak, Declaration of Emergency Directive 021 (Phase Two Reopening Plan), May 28, 2020, ss. 3, 12, 13, 15, 39, extended for the duration of the emergency by Directive 029 s. 4 (Ex. NV-024) (Ex. NV-017)
Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Board Report 20-0624-RS1, Amend Board Report 20-0325-RS1 Resolution Authorizing Expenditures and Actions in Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (June 24, 2020) (Ex. AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-003)
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)
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)
Commissioner Allison Arwady, M.D., Chicago Department of Public Health, Emergency Travel Order (Public Health Order 2020-10 and successors) (July 2, 2020) (Ex. ECO-C-031)
Governor Henry McMaster, State of Emergency renewal chain: EO 2020-44 (July 11, 2020), 2020-48 (July 26), 2020-56 (Aug. 25), 2020-59 (Sept. 9), 2020-62 (Sept. 24), 2020-65 (Oct. 9), 2020-67 (Oct. 24), 2020-70 (Nov. 8), 2020-72 (Nov. 23), 2020-75 (Dec. 8), 2021-03 (Jan. 7, 2021), 2021-07 (Jan. 22), 2021-08 (Feb. 6), 2021-10 (Feb. 21), 2021-13 (Mar. 8), 2021-15 (Mar. 23), 2021-18 (Apr. 7), 2021-20 (Apr. 22), 2021-22 (May 7) (Ex. SC-037)
MDHHS Director Robert Gordon (release describing the Emergency Order of Aug. 3, 2020, Ex. MI-042), MDHHS release, 'Emergency Order Requiring Testing of Agricultural and Food Processing Employees Remains in Effect' (describing the Aug. 3, 2020 order's testing requirements for migrant housing camp operators and agricultural, meat, poultry, egg and greenhouse employers, the Aug. 24 compliance deadline and the W.D. Mich. denial of a temporary restraining order) (Aug. 17, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-AGRICULTURE-PARKS-WILDLIFE-066)
Governor David Y. Ige, Eleventh Proclamation Related to the COVID-19 Emergency Interisland Travel Quarantine (Aug. 6, 2020) (Ex. HI-012)
Maui Now (reproducing the Governor's Eleventh Proclamation), Press reproduction of the Eleventh Proclamation Related to the COVID-19 Emergency Interisland Travel Quarantine (Aug. 8, 2020) (Ex. HI-057)
Secretary of Health and Human Services Mandy Cohen, NCDHHS Secretarial Orders on long-term care facility visitation and testing (including Secretarial Order No. 3, September 4, 2020) (Sept. 4, 2020) (Ex. NC-073)
Mayor Derek S. K. Kawakami, Mayor's Emergency Rule No. 17 (Sept. 8, 2020) (Ex. MET-HNL-074)
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (Director Robert Gordon), MDHHS Emergency Order: Testing requirements for long-term care facilities (Oct. 28, 2020) (Ex. MI-058)
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Executive Order No. 205.2 (Oct. 31, 2020) (Ex. ECO-C-003)
Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (Oregon OSHA), Department of Consumer and Business Services, Oregon OSHA Temporary Rule OAR 437-001-0744, Addressing COVID-19 Workplace Risks (Administrative Order 3-2020; corrected by AO 4-2020, Dec. 11, 2020) (Nov. 6, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-047)
Clark County Public Health (Dr. Alan Melnick, health officer and director), Modification of the County's COVID-19 case-investigation response (Nov. 17, 2020): every positive case instructed to isolate at home until no longer contagious (10 days; fever-free 24 hours); close contacts to quarantine 14 days and not go to work, school, child care or church; priority-location exposure management (schools, long-term care, jail, food processing) (Ex. MET-PDX-041)
Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board; Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA), COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards, 8 C.C.R. 3205, 3205.1, 3205.2, 3205.3, 3205.4 (Nov. 19, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-043)
Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board; Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA), COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards, 8 CCR §§ 3205-3205.4 (adopted Nov. 19, 2020; effective Nov. 30, 2020; readopted with amendments June 17, 2021) (Ex. SEC-12-061)
Mayor Derek S. K. Kawakami, Mayor's Emergency Rule No. 23 (Nov. 27, 2020) (Ex. MET-HNL-078)
Georgia Department of Public Health, Tenth Amended Administrative Order (isolation and quarantine) (Dec. 4, 2020) (Ex. GA-067)
Clark County Public Health (Dr. Alan Melnick, health officer and director), adopting Washington DOH and CDC options, Adoption of shortened quarantine options for close contacts outside high-priority settings (10 days without symptoms; 7 days with a negative test on or after day 5), Dec. 9, 2020; full 14 days retained for long-term care, health care, food processing, jail, school and child-care workers (Ex. MET-PDX-042)
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)
County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks, Executive Order 3-2021 (Jan. 26, 2021); Executive Order 8-2021 (Mar. 11, 2021); Executive Order 11-2021 (May 14, 2021) (Ex. MET-DCM-123)
Legislature of Mississippi (Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 33, ch. 15, Mississippi Emergency Management Law); Governor as the officer empowered, Miss. Code Ann. § 33-15-11(b)(5), (b)(6), (b)(17) and (c)(1) (legislative reprint of 2021) (standing) (Ex. DUT-MS-005)
St. Louis County Department of Public Health (Acting Director Dr. Faisal Khan), Fifth Amended Quarantine and Isolation Order (Mar. 15, 2021) (Ex. MET-STL-066)
Office of the Governor (press release), Governor's release: 'Governor Laura Kelly Signs Executive Orders to Maintain COVID-19 Response' (Apr. 1, 2021) (Ex. KS-047)
Gallatin City-County Board of Health, Phase Two reopening emergency rule (bars, restaurants, casinos, breweries and distilleries closing at 10 p.m.; 50 percent capacity), as amended April 2021 (eight per table; bar-stool spacing 3 feet), and Board action removing the enforcement mechanism of the Quarantine and Isolation Rule and the nursing-home visitation rules (April 2021) (Apr. 19, 2021) (Ex. MT-077)
St. Louis County Department of Public Health (Acting Director Dr. Faisal Khan), Sixth Amended Quarantine and Isolation Order (Apr. 21, 2021) (Ex. MET-STL-067)
Government of Japan under art. 32(1) of the Act on Special Measures, Third Declaration of a State of Emergency (Apr. 23, 2021; Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, later expanded) and Fourth Declaration (announced July 8, 2021; Tokyo from July 12, 2021; Okinawa continued; expanded in August to Osaka, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa and other prefectures), extended to Sept. 30, 2021; quasi-emergency measures in additional prefectures (Ex. FOR-027)
Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz, Jr., Supreme Court of Delaware, Administrative Order No. 19 (April 30, 2021): Extension of Judicial Emergency; Phase 3 to commence June 1, 2021, with an updated Jury Management Plan (Exhibit 1) (Apr. 30, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-059)
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (Director Elizabeth Hertel), MDHHS Emergency Order: Testing requirements for residential care facilities (May 5, 2021) (Ex. MI-070)
Governor Christopher T. Sununu, Executive Order 2021-08 (May 7, 2021) (Ex. NH-030)
Washington State Department of Health, Emergency rule WSR 21-11-016, WAC 246-358-002 as revised (vaccination-status revisions to the temporary worker housing COVID-19 requirements) (May 7, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-AGRICULTURE-PARKS-WILDLIFE-062)
Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, Emergency rule WSR 21-11-012, WAC 296-307-16102 as revised (vaccination-status revisions) (May 7, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-AGRICULTURE-PARKS-WILDLIFE-063)
Washington State Legislature; signed by Governor Inslee May 11, 2021, Washington State Legislature bill summary, SB 5115 (2021-22), Establishing health emergency labor standards (May 11, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-008)
Governor Ralph DLG. Torres / COVID-19 Task Force and CHCC, Release: Quarantine protocols eased for those traveling to the CNMI who are fully vaccinated (May 15, 2021) (Ex. AGY-TERRITORIES-151)
Governor Tom Wolf, Amendment to Proclamation of Disaster Emergency (fifth renewal) (May 20, 2021) (Ex. PA-112)
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)
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (Director Elizabeth Hertel), MDHHS Emergency Order: Agricultural worker testing (re-issued) (June 11, 2021) (Ex. MI-075)
Office of the Governor (press release), Governor's release: 'Governor Laura Kelly to Rescind Seven Pandemic Emergency Executive Orders' (June 14, 2021) (Ex. KS-051)
Governor Philip B. Scott, Governor's directive of June 14, 2021 to the Secretary of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development (image posted by the Governor's office as 'CovidRestrictionsLiftedDirective.PNG') (Ex. VT-098)
Office of the Governor (statement), Governor Laura Kelly Statement Regarding Republican Leaders Revoking Disaster Declaration (June 15, 2021) (Ex. KS-058)
Office of Governor Larry Hogan (press release), Governor's release (June 15, 2021): Governor Hogan Announces End of COVID-19 State of Emergency; Emergency Mandates and Restrictions to End July 1, Followed By 45-Day Administrative Grace Period (Ex. MD-076)
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (Director Elizabeth Hertel), MDHHS Emergency Order: Requirements for Prisons (June 25, 2021) (Ex. MI-077)
County Executive Barry Glassman, Executive order lifting the local state of emergency effective July 1, 2021, as announced June 15, 2021 (Ex. MET-BAL-097)
Legislature of Mississippi (House Bill 612, 2022 Regular Session, as introduced; died in committee Feb. 1, 2022), Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-5 and § 41-3-15 (legislative reprint of 2022) (standing) (Ex. DUT-MS-007)
Kansas Legislature (enrolled Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29, 2025 Session; L. 2025, ch. 115), Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29 (2025), enrolled bill amending K.S.A. 65-101, 65-119 and 65-129b (the struck text is the statute as it stood throughout 2020-2021) (standing) (Ex. DUT-KS-001)
Department of Health (rule); text read in the Legal Information Institute (Cornell) compilation of the Hawaii Administrative Rules, Hawaii Administrative Rules § 11-156-5, Isolation (chapter 11-156, Communicable Diseases) (standing) (Ex. DUT-HI-011)
Department of Health, Disease Outbreak Control Division, Department of Health web page, 'Hawaii Isolation and Control Requirements' (Reporting an Illness: For Healthcare Providers) (standing) (Ex. DUT-HI-012)
Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz, Jr., Supreme Court of Delaware, Administrative Order No. 17: Extension of Judicial Emergency (March 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-058)
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)
