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- Jurisdiction
- Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Court of Common Pleas, 32nd Judicial District) · Philadelphia · Pennsylvania
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Pa.R.J.A. 1952; Supreme Court of Pennsylvania statewide judicial emergency orders of Mar. 16, 2020 onward
- Issued
- 2021-01-22 Jan. 22, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-01-22
- End
- Followed by the Seventh Extension (Apr. 21, 2021) and the orders of Aug. 12, 2021 setting aside the emergency (court index) (read as 2021-04-21)
- In force
- Jan. 22, 2021 to Apr. 21, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- the courts, litigants and the public of Delaware County
- Functions reached
- CT courthouse access limited; screening
- CL sheriff's real estate sales postponed monthly through Mar. 19, 2021
- PM residential evictions stayed
- SV tax sales postponed
- Collection
- Philadelphia MET-PHL
Operative words
Not read (scanned PDF without a text layer). The court's COVID-19 page (Wayback capture of Jan. 25, 2021, read) lists: Order Declaring a Judicial Emergency; Order Extending Cancelation of Jury Trials and Jury Duty; Order Extending Stay of Residential Property Evictions; Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Orders Extending the Thirty-Second Judicial District's Past Declared Emergency; Emergency Revised Scheduling and Operational Protocols as of Nov. 12, 2020; Emergency Orders postponing the Sheriff's Real Estate Sales of June 19, July 17, Aug. 21, Nov. 20 and Dec. 18, 2020 and Jan. 15, Feb. 19 and Mar. 19, 2021, and the Upset and Judicial Tax Sales of Sept. 17, Oct. 15 and Dec. 17, 2020; and states: 'Effective Monday, June 1, 2020, the criminal, civil and family trial courts will resume certain judicial operations in the court of common pleas, including in-person hearings, under staggered start schedules, hourly caps of the number of cases to be heard, and an aggregate number of matters listed daily.... For now, only counsel, the parties, and witnesses will be permitted access to the court house... All those entering the court house must undergo both a security and health screening, including the taking of temperatures, and will be denied admission should they not pass the health assessment.'
Enforcement
Notes
Delaware County's judicial emergency ran from March 2020 to Aug. 12, 2021, six weeks into the third quarter of 2021
Retrieval noteThe order titles and the June 1, 2020 resumption text are read from the court's own page.