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Ex. FED-331General Order 72-4In re: Coronavirus Disease Public Health Emergency (General Order 72-4)Chief Judge Phyllis J. HamiltonUnited States District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaCourtJune 24, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. HI-039Order Regarding Foreclosures, SCMF-20-0000152Order requiring a declaration in every judicial or non-judicial foreclosure and ejectment action that the mortgage is not a federally backed…Supreme Court of HawaiiHawaiiCourtJune 25, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Courts and public officesOtherPrimary source read
Ex. AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-073Administrative Order, 'Restricting Court Access to the National Courts Building Until August 14, 2020' (June 26, 2020)Restricting Court Access to the National Courts Building Until August 14, 2020Chief Judge Sharon Prost (Federal Circuit) and Chief Judge Margaret M. Sweeney (Court of Federal Claims)United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and United States Court of Federal Claims (National Courts Building)CourtJune 26, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Business closureCourts and public officesConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DC-023Joint Committee Order Requiring Persons to Wear Cloth Face Coverings in Court Buildings During the COVID-19 PandemicOrder Requiring Persons to Wear Cloth Face Coverings in Court Buildings During the COVID-19 PandemicJoint Committee on Judicial Administration for the District of Columbia CourtsDistrict of ColumbiaCourtJune 26, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. MI-035Administrative Order No. 2020-19Continuing Order Regarding Court OperationsMichigan Supreme CourtMichiganCourtJune 26, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. ECO-C-065Misc. Docket No. 20-9080, Eighteenth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of DisasterEighteenth Emergency Order (no jury proceedings before September 1, 2020 except limited pilots; operating plans required)Supreme Court of TexasTexasCourtJune 29, 20202020 Q3Gathering capCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. MET-AUS-061Third Amended Emergency Order Regarding COVID-19 (filed June 15, 2020; effective June 29, 2020)Third Amended Emergency Order (in-person hearings suspended to June 29, 2020; jury trials to at least August 17, 2020; remote hearings…Travis County Civil and Family Courts (District Judges and County Court at Law Judges)Travis County, Texas (Civil and Family District Courts and County Courts at Law)CourtJune 15, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. MET-ORL-041Administrative Order No. 2020-06-05Amended Temporary Order Governing Trial Court Proceedings (return to Phase 1)Chief Judge Donald A. Myers, Jr.Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida (Orange and Osceola Counties)CourtJune 26, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1Gathering capCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. MET-RIV-035Administrative Order No. 2020-39, Order Concerning Temporary Courthouse ClosuresAdministrative Order 2020-39 (filed June 24, 2020)Presiding Judge John W. VineyardSuperior Court of California, County of RiversideCourtJune 24, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-010Administrative Order of the Chief Justice, In re Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19 Disease (June 30, 2020)Statewide administrative order continuing the exclusion categories and requiring courts holding in-person proceedings to adopt screening…Chief Justice Michael G. Heavican, Nebraska Supreme CourtNebraska Supreme Court (Chief Justice; statewide)CourtJune 30, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationPrimary source read
Ex. MET-DEN-067Administrative Order 20-103 (Revised): 20th Judicial District Operations at Boulder County Jail CourtroomAdministrative Order 20-103, revised June 30, 2020Chief Judge Ingrid S. Bakke, Twentieth Judicial DistrictTwentieth Judicial District (Boulder County), ColoradoCourtJune 30, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. MA-072Court System Response to COVID-19 (guide) listing the SJC and Trial Court ordersCourt system response to COVID-19: orders and announcements (Wayback capture July 1, 2020; 2021 capture read for the later orders)Supreme Judicial Court and Executive Office of the Trial Court (index page of the Massachusetts Court System)MassachusettsCourtJuly 1, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-HI-015Order Denying Plaintiffs' Application for Temporary Restraining Order and Order to Show Cause Why Preliminary Injunction Should Not Issue, Carmichael v. Ige, Civil No. 20-00273 JAO-WRP, ECF No. 47 (D. Haw. July 2, 2020)Carmichael v. Ige, Order Denying Plaintiffs' Application for Temporary Restraining OrderUnited States District Court for the District of Hawaii, Otake, J.Hawaii (United States District Court for the District of Hawaii)CourtJuly 2, 20202020 Q3Standing dutyStay-at-homeTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolationOtherPrimary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS-061Board of Law Examiners 'All Announcements' page (archived Oct. 18, 2020): Supreme Court order cancelling the July 2020 in-person exam, in-person Sept. 9-10, 2020 exam with hotel-room assignments, remote Oct. 5-6, 2020 exam, acceptance of remote scores of 270 from other UBE jurisdictions (Aug. 24, 2020)Texas Board of Law Examiners - All Announcements (2020 bar exam chronology)Texas Board of Law ExaminersTexas; Board of Law Examiners (agency of the Supreme Court of Texas)CourtJuly 3, 20202020 Q32020 Q4Gathering capCourts and public officesOtherPrimary source read
Ex. KS-067Administrative Order 2020-PR-090Re: Requiring Masks in Appellate and District CourtsKansas Supreme CourtKansasCourtJuly 2, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. FED-316Fourth Amendment to General Order 20-01In re: Court Operations Under the Exigent Circumstances Created by COVID-19 (General Order 20-01, Fourth Amendment)Chief Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr.United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta, Gainesville, Newnan, Rome)CourtJuly 31, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. MET-DEN-064Fifth Amended Administrative Order Regarding Court Operations Under COVID-19, 2020-01 A517th JD Fifth Amended CJO, Limited Court Operations, Effective July 6, 2020 - July 31, 2020 (issued July 5, 2020)Chief Judge, Seventeenth Judicial DistrictSeventeenth Judicial District (Adams and Broomfield Counties), ColoradoCourtJuly 5, 20202020 Q3Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. NM-025Supreme Court Order No. 20-8500-025 with attached New Mexico Judiciary Public Health Emergency Protocols (Emergency Court Protocols Nos. 1-3)In the Matter of the Safe and Effective Administration of the New Mexico Judiciary During the COVID-19 Public Health EmergencySupreme Court of New MexicoNew MexicoCourtJuly 6, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Telework mandateGathering capFace-covering requirementTravel and quarantineCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. WA-092Supreme Court Order No. 25700-B-631Order re: Modification of Jury Trial ProceedingsSupreme Court of WashingtonWashingtonCourtJune 18, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Gathering capCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. AZ-060Administrative Order No. 2020-105Disposition of Residential Eviction Cases During the Public Health EmergencyArizona Supreme CourtArizonaCourtJuly 7, 20202020 Q3Courts and public officesOtherPrimary source read
Ex. MET-DET-007Local Administrative Order 2020-04Plan to Return to Full Capacity - Phase OneThird Judicial Circuit of Michigan, Chief Judge Timothy M. Kenny (approved by SCAO)Wayne County, Michigan (Third Judicial Circuit)CourtJuly 7, 20202020 Q3Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-050Administrative Order No. 8: Extension of Judicial EmergencyFourth 30-day extension effective July 8, 2020; courts to remain in Phase 2; no entry into Phase 3 'until medical experts believe it is…Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz, Jr., Supreme Court of DelawareSupreme Court of the State of Delaware (statewide)CourtJuly 6, 20202020 Q3Emergency declarationCapacity limitCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-VA-019Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Tigges v. Northam, No. 3:20-cv-00410-JAG (E.D. Va.), Document 13 (filed July 8, 2020), 35 pagesOpposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Tigges v. Northam, Civil Action No. 3:20-cv-00410-JAG (E.D. Va. July 8, 2020)Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the Attorney General (Michelle S. Kallen and Toby J. Heytens), for Governor Northam and State Health Commissioner OliverVirginia (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division)CourtJuly 8, 20202020 Q22020 Q3Standing dutyBusiness closureCapacity limitGathering capOtherPrimary source read
Ex. MET-LAS-042Administrative Order 20-18 (Proceedings in Case No. A-19-787004-B; Las Vegas Convention Center South Hall designated temporary courtroom)Administrative Order 20-18Chief Judge Linda Marie BellClark County, Nevada (Eighth Judicial District)CourtJuly 8, 20202020 Q3Gathering capCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. TN-085In re: COVID-19 Pandemic, No. ADM2020-00428, Order of July 9, 2020 (mandatory facial coverings in courthouses)Order of July 9, 2020 requiring facial coverings in courthouses and courtroomsTennessee Supreme CourtTennesseeCourtJuly 9, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesConfirmed from a secondary source