The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Conn. Gen. Stat. 28-9(b)(1), (7)
- Issued
- 2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-19
- End
- sec. 2 court and deadline suspensions continued by later orders; civil deadlines resumed Mar. 1, 2021 (EO 10A sec. 5); venue and speedy-trial suspensions to June 30, 2021 (EO 12B sec. 9) (Connecticut State file) (read as 2021-03-01)
- In force
- Mar. 19, 2020 to Mar. 1, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- Supreme, Appellate and Superior Courts and their officials
- litigants
- restaurants, bars, barbershops and salons (secs. 3-4)
- Functions reached
- SV (foreclosure and collection dockets confined to essential business; deadlines suspended)
- ML (closings dependent on courts and recorders)
- CL
- BL
- Collection
- Financial Services SEC-13
Operative words
2. Suspension of Non-Critical Court Operations and Associated Requirements.... I have determined that there exists a compelling state interest that courts conduct only essential business in order to minimize the spread of COVID-19... [the Chief Court Administrator is authorized to suspend] (1) location or venue requirements; (2) all statutory (a) time requirements, (b) statutes of limitation or (c) other limitations or deadlines relating to service of process, court proceedings or court filings; and (3) all time requirements or deadlines related to the Supreme, Appellate and Superior courts or their judicial officials to issue notices, hold court, hear matters and/or render decisions
Enforcement
Notes
Same instrument as CT-006 in the Connecticut State file; the Judicial Branch's own orders are CT-073 to CT-076.