The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States District Court for the District of Maryland · Maryland
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- inherent authority; the Court's Recovery Plan
- Issued
- 2021-06-23 June 23, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07-01
- In force
- July 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- all persons entering the District's courthouses and Probation offices
- Functions reached
- CT courthouse entry restrictions and spectator limits continuing from July 1, 2021
- Collection
- Federal commerce, travel, workplace and finance layer FED-B
Operative words
On May 26, 2021, the Court modified Phase Three of its Recovery Plan to relax some of [its restrictions]... [the State of Maryland ended its state of] emergency, effective July 1, 2021. Moreover, local jurisdictions have eliminated indoor mask mandates or will do so by July 1, 2021.... [the Court finds that] vaccination rates, and other relevant criteria warrant additional relaxation of pandemic mitigative restrictions to reflect these improving factors, effective July 1, 2021. It is ORDERED that the following persons shall not enter any U.S. Courthouse or U.S. [Probation Office: persons with COVID-19 symptoms, diagnosis or exposure]... Spectators will not be permitted into the courtroom during individual voir dire examination of prospective jurors and other in camera proceedings.
Enforcement
Notes
The District of Maryland's Q3 2021 instrument: it relaxed but did not end the courthouse restrictions on July 1, 2021 and kept entry exclusions and spectator limits in force; Standing Orders 2021-15 and 2021-16 (listed on the court's site) continued the regime through the autumn.
Retrieval noteSigned in June 2021 (day not legible).