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Second Supplemental Order extending the general statewide judicial emergency and court closure through Apr. 30, 2020; jurors not to report; evictions, ejectments and executions on orders of possession stayed (Nos. 531 and 532 Judicial Administration Docket)

In re: General Statewide Judicial Emergency - Second Supplemental Order

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (per curiam) · Pennsylvania (Court)

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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
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.

Retrieval note

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