The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California · California
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- inherent authority over court facilities
- Issued
- 2020-05-21 May 21, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-21 'until further [order]' (read as 2020-05-21)
- End
- 2021-07-01 (abrogated by General Order 78) (read as 2021-07-01)
- In force
- May 21, 2020 to July 1, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- all persons seeking entry to the San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Eureka-McKinleyville courthouses
- Functions reached
- CT courthouses closed to the public except for official court business, Mar. 2020 - June 30, 2021
- Collection
- Federal commerce, travel, workplace and finance layer FED-B
Operative words
[In light of the shelter-in-place orders and to protect] courthouse visitors, the court will continue to temporarily restrict courthouse access at all four locations due to the ongoing COVID-19 emergency. Effective immediately and until further [order, entry is limited to persons with official court business]... 'Official court business' shall include [scheduled proceedings and filings]... There will also be a drop box available for manual filing in the first floor lobby of the San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose courthouses.
Enforcement
court order; court security
Retrieval noteThe file slug misdescribes the order as a CARES Act order; General Order 73 is the courthouse-access order (General Order 74 is the CARES Act order).