The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States District Court for the Central District of California (Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Riverside) · California
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- inherent authority; Continuity of Operations Plan; 28 U.S.C. § 2071
- Issued
- 2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-23 through 2020-05-01 (extended by later orders) (read as 2020-03-23)
- End
- extended by Orders 20-043 and successors; jury trials did not resume in the district until 2021 (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 23, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- the public
- litigants and counsel
- court staff
- Functions reached
- CT the largest federal district in the country closed its courthouses to the public Mar. 23 - May 1, 2020 and continued civil and criminal trials
- CS litigation practice, process servers, court reporters, interpreters
- Collection
- Federal commerce, travel, workplace and finance layer FED-B
Operative words
the Continuity of Operations Plan... of the Central District of California is hereby activated, effective March 23, 2020 through and including May 1, 2020... All of the Courthouses of the Central District of California will be closed to the public... [emergency criminal matters and applications for temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions to be heard at] the Roybal Building and United States Courthouse in Los Angeles only.
Enforcement
court order; U.S. Marshals