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- Jurisdiction
- Iowa (all State courts) · Iowa
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Iowa Const. art. V, §§ 1, 4
- Issued
- 2020-04-02 Apr. 2, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-02
- End
- Superseded by IA-051 (May 22, 2020) (read as 2020-05-22)
- In force
- Apr. 2, 2020 to May 22, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- all Iowa courts, clerks, attorneys, litigants, jurors
- Functions reached
- CT courts closed to non-emergency in-person business through mid-2020
- CL/SV/PM court-dependent real estate, lending and eviction processes delayed
- Collection
- Iowa IA
Operative words
'Emergency proceedings. District courts shall continue to conduct the following in-person business:... Any criminal nonjury trial that is scheduled to begin before June 1, 2020 shall be continued and reset to a date no earlier [than June 1]... Jury trials. Any criminal jury trial that is scheduled to begin before July 13 shall be continued and reset to a date no earlier than July 13.... Grand jury proceedings. All grand jury proceedings shall be suspended until July 13.... No in-person attendance. No person who has an elevated risk of [severe illness]... [may] attend any clerk of court's office, hearing, trial, conference, deposition, or [other proceeding].'
Enforcement
Notes
Retrieval noteFourteen-page scanned PDF read by OCR.