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- Jurisdiction
- Alabama
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Ala. Const. 1901, art. VI, §§ 139, 140, 150
- Issued
- 2021-08-20 Aug. 20, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-23
- End
- 2021-11-29
- In force
- Aug. 23, 2021 to Nov. 29, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- every circuit, district, juvenile, family, municipal, probate and accountability court
- litigants and witnesses
- Functions reached
- CT (in-person proceedings displaced by audio-video at judicial discretion, Q3 2021)
- CL
- SV
- Collection
- Alabama AL
Operative words
The Supreme Court of Alabama... hereby declares a temporary state of emergency for the entire Judicial Branch of the State of Alabama due to recent increases in COVID-19 infections in certain areas of the State of Alabama and, effective August 23, 2021, promulgates the following temporary rule regarding the use of audio/video technologies: Subject to any party's substantive or constitutional rights, to the extent that any Alabama rule or statute governing the administration of, or practice and procedure in, any court impedes a judge's ability to use, or to authorize a court clerk's use of, available audio/video technologies, rather than conducting in-person proceedings, those rules and statutes are temporarily superseded until November 29, 2021.
Enforcement
Supervisory authority of the Supreme Court; rules and statutes superseded
Notes
A Q3 2021 governmental order limiting in-person court commerce statewide, issued on the same facts as the Governor's August 13 emergency.
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