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Ex. KS-060 Order Primary source read

Administrative Order 2020-PR-016

Order restricting Kansas district and appellate courts to emergency operations and suspending statutes of limitation and statutory time standards (COVID-19)

Kansas Supreme Court (Chief Justice Marla Luckert) · Kansas (Court)

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Jurisdiction
Kansas
Level
Court
Authority
Kan. Const. art. 3, sec. 1; 2020 H. Sub. for SB 102 sec. 1 (K.S.A. 20-172)
Issued
2020-03-18 Mar. 18, 2020
Effective
2020-03-18
End
Operational paragraphs superseded by 2020-PR-048 and -049 (May 1, 2020) and rescinded Dec. 1, 2020 (2020-PR-122); deadline paragraph 15 continued by 2020-PR-101, -107, -113, -130, 2021-PR-001, -009 until Apr. 15, 2021 (2021-PR-020) and Aug. 2, 2021 (2021-PR-100) (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Mar. 18, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Gathering capCourts and public offices
Addressees
  • all Kansas district and appellate courts
  • clerks
  • litigants
  • attorneys
Functions reached
  • CT courts, clerks and filings
  • CL collections, evictions, foreclosures (dockets closed to non-emergency matters)
  • BD contract enforcement
  • HR background checks and records
Collection
Kansas KS

Operative words

3. Effective upon publication of 2020 House Substitute for Senate Bill No. 102, this order suspends all deadlines and time limitations to bring a defendant to trial established by K.S.A. 22-3402 and its amendments, until further order of the Chief Justice. 4. Other than jury trials in progress, all Kansas district and appellate courts, administrative offices, the Offices of the Clerks of the District and Appellate Courts, and court services offices will be restricted to emergency operations until further order.... [para. 15: suspending] all statutes of limitations and statutory time standards or deadlines applying to the conduct or processing of judicial proceedings

Enforcement

Binding on all Kansas courts and litigants under Kan. Const. art. 3 and K.S.A. 20-172.

Notes

Professional services, financial services, real estate, staffing.

Retrieval note

Scanned; pages 1-4 read by rendering; paragraph 15 quoted as recited in 2020-PR-047.