Fifth Judicial District Request for Emergency Judicial Order (August 26, 2021): extension of the judicial emergency through October 1, 2021

The record

Jurisdiction

Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania (Allegheny County) · Pittsburgh · Pennsylvania

Level

Court

Authority

Pa.R.J.A. No. 1952(B)(2)

Issued

2021-08-26 Aug. 26, 2021

Effective

Granted by Supreme Court order of Aug. 30, 2021 (recited in MET-PIT-040) (read as 2021-08-30)

End

2021-10-01

In force

Aug. 30, 2021 to Oct. 1, 2021

Quarters

2021 Q3

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Face-covering requirementCourts and public offices

Addressees

• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• all courts of the District

Functions reached

• CT
• OF

Collection

Pittsburgh MET-PIT

Operative words

Kim Berkeley Clark, President Judge of the Fifth Judicial District, having previously declared a judicial emergency in the District through August 31, 2021, hereby requests... Authorize the President Judge to extend the current judicial emergency in the Fifth Judicial District... through October 1, 2021.... Suspend application of Pennsylvania Rule of Criminal Procedure 600 through October 1, 2021... The CDC level of community transmission classification in Allegheny County increased from substantial to high during week of August 14, 2021.... During the week of June 20, 2021, there were 70 confirmed cases... compared to the week of August 8, 2021, during which there were 969 confirmed cases... In 2020, due to the restrictions necessitated by the pandemic, there were only 19 jury trials held in the Criminal Division.... The Fifth Judicial District implemented a masking policy for court users regardless of vaccination status and court employees on August 8, 2021.

Enforcement

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