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- Jurisdiction
- Nebraska Supreme Court (Chief Justice; statewide) · Nebraska
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Neb. Const. art. V, § 1; Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-2221
- Issued
- 2020-11-03 Nov. 3, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-11-03
- End
- Until otherwise ordered (rescission date not verified; in force through Sept. 30, 2021 on the face of the order and the absence of any later superseding order located) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Nov. 3, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- all Nebraska courts and probation offices
- attorneys, parties and witnesses
- Functions reached
- CT courts and agencies
- WF workforce (isolation and quarantine categories excluded from proceedings)
- OF office and administration
- Collection
- State courts AGY-ST-COURTS
Operative words
if a court is holding in-person proceedings, the court shall adopt, and implement to the best of the court's ability, a written plan outlining adequate measures to limit the transmission of COVID-19 to staff, counsel, parties, and other participants, including but not limited to use of telephonic or videoconferencing hearing options as allowed by statute, social distancing or spacing requirements, use of masks, providing hand sanitizer, and sanitizing highly touched surfaces... The March 13, April 6, and June 30, 2020, Administrative Orders are superseded by this Order. This Order shall remain in effect until otherwise ordered by the Nebraska Supreme Court.
Enforcement
General administrative order binding on all courts and probation offices; plans submitted to the Administrative Office of the Courts and Probation
Notes
The document itself bears a Nov. 3, 2020 filing stamp and is dated November 2020. Treated here as the November 2020 order; the May 6, 2020 order was not separately retrieved.
Retrieval noteFile name carries the site's '5.6.20' label; the instrument read is the November 2020 order (filed NOV 03 2020). Scanned PDF read by OCR. no text layer): page 1 carries the Nebraska Supreme Court 'FILED NOV 03 2020' stamp and the caption 'In re Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19 Disease, Administrative Order of the Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court'; page 2 carries the order's written transmission-control-plan requirement (paragraph 7); the exhibit is therefore the Nov. 3, 2020 order, and date_issued (2020-11-03), effective and in_force_quarters (2020Q4-2021Q3) stand; the file-name date 2020-05-06 is the court website's label and is wrong; the file was not renamed.