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- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Pa. Const. art. V, § 10(a); Pa. R.J.A. 1952(A)
- Issued
- 2020-04-01 Apr. 1, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-01
- End
- 2020-04-30 (emergency then extended to June 1 by PA-088; eviction stay extended to May 11, 2020) (read as 2020-04-30)
- In force
- Apr. 1, 2020 to Apr. 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- all Pennsylvania courts
- jurors
- landlords and lenders
- Functions reached
- CT courts closed to the public; jury trials suspended
- PM evictions stayed
- SV foreclosures and executions stayed
- CL recorder-dependent closings delayed
- Collection
- Pennsylvania PA
Operative words
AND NOW, this 1st day of April, 2020,... this Court DIRECTS that the general, statewide judicial emergency declared in this Court's Order of March 16, 2020, is EXTENDED through April 30, 2020, and all Pennsylvania courts SHALL REMAIN generally CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC through April 30, 2020, subject to the General and Specific Directives and Exceptions set forth in this Court's Order of March 18, 2020, as modified and supplemented herein.... Jurors SHALL NOT REPORT for jury duty through April 30, 2020.... [no officer, official or other person employed] by the Pennsylvania Judiciary at any level shall effectuate an eviction, ejectment, or [other displacement from a residence based upon the failure to make a monetary payment;... consistent with the foregoing] orders, any execution on an order of possession is also stayed for the same period...
Enforcement
Supreme Court supervisory authority over all courts, prothonotaries, sheriffs and constables
Notes
The judiciary's own commerce-limiting instrument: no jury trials, courts closed to the public, all residential dispossession stayed statewide.
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