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Ex. AL-062Administrative Order No. 11: Revoking Previous Administrative Orders Related to COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency ResponseJudicial state of emergency ends at 5:00 p.m. July 7, 2021; all prior COVID-19 administrative orders revoked except No. 10Supreme Court of AlabamaAlabamaCourtJuly 7, 20212021 Q3Emergency declarationCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-WA-020Slidewaters LLC v. Washington State Department of Labor & Industries, No. 20-35634Opinion affirming denial of injunctive relief and dismissal of claims against Proclamations 20-05 and 20-25 and L&I emergency rule WAC…United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Gould, Clifton, Bress, JJ.; opinion by Judge Clifton)Washington (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, on appeal from E.D. Wash.)CourtJuly 8, 20212021 Q3Standing dutyBusiness closureWorkplace rulesOperating conditionPrimary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-080Supreme Judicial Court Seventh Updated Order Regarding Court Operations Under the Exigent Circumstances Created by the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic (entered July 1, 2021, effective July 12, 2021; amended Dec. 31, 2021 and Jan. 24, 2022)Q3 2021 court-operations order: end of Phase 3 jury-trial limits on July 9, 2021 but continued COVID-19 provisions, including six-person…Supreme Judicial Court of MassachusettsSupreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (statewide)CourtJuly 1, 20212021 Q3Gathering capCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. ME-075PPMO-TC-1Administrative Order from the Maine Trial Court Chiefs Regarding Previous Pandemic Management OrdersMaine Trial Court Chiefs (Superior Court Chief Justice Mullen; District Court Chief Judge French; Deputy Chief Judge Lawrence)MaineCourtJuly 13, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. AZ-059Administrative Order No. 2021-109Authorizing Limitation of Court Operations During a Public Health Emergency and Transition to Resumption of Certain Operations (Replacing AO…Arizona Supreme CourtArizonaCourtJuly 14, 20212021 Q3Gathering capFace-covering requirementCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-12-084Administrative Order No. 2021-109 (replacing AO 2021-77)Authorizing Limitation of Court Operations During a Public Health EmergencyArizona Supreme Court (Chief Justice Robert Brutinel)ArizonaCourtJuly 14, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. AZ-061Administrative Order No. 2021-120Post-Moratoria Disposition of Residential Eviction Cases in Transition from Public Health Emergency Procedures (Replacing AO 2021-53)Arizona Supreme CourtArizonaCourtJuly 15, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesOtherPrimary source read
Ex. DC-059Superior Court Order by Chief Judge Josey-Herring (Amended 7/14/21)Order re operations through September 10, 2021Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Chief Judge Anita Josey-HerringDistrict of ColumbiaCourtJuly 14, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. GA-053Order Granting Relief from Statutory Speedy Trial Requirements Pursuant to O.C.G.A. 38-3-62(b)Speedy-trial tolling order following the statewide judicial emergency (Dougherty County)Superior Court of Dougherty CountyGeorgia (Dougherty Judicial Circuit; Dougherty County / Albany)CourtJuly 16, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. SEC-06-009Order granting preliminary injunction, Florida v. Becerra, No. 8:21-cv-839-SDM-AAS, Doc. 91 (M.D. Fla. June 18, 2021)Order (preliminary injunction against the Conditional Sailing Order as to Florida)Judge Steven D. MerrydayUnited States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Tampa Division)CourtJune 18, 20212021 Q3Travel and quarantineOtherPrimary source read
Ex. AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-021Order of July 19, 2021 (Order List: 594 U.S.)Order rescinding the Court's orders of March 19, 2020 and April 15, 2020 relating to COVID-19, subject to clarificationsSupreme Court of the United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesCourtJuly 19, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-026Guidance Concerning Clerk's Office Operations (updated July 19, 2021)Guidance Concerning Clerk's Office OperationsClerk of the Court, Scott S. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States (Office of the Clerk)CourtJuly 19, 20212021 Q3Context (guidance or announcement)Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. MET-LAS-019Administrative Order 21-05 (Reinstating Face Coverings in Response to COVID-19)Administrative Order 21-05Chief Judge Linda Marie Bell and Chief Justice James W. HardestyClark County, Nevada (Eighth Judicial District)CourtJuly 19, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. MET-PHX-014Administrative Order No. 2021-104In the Matter of Lifting Restrictions on Physical Access to Court Facilities Used by Justice Courts Due to a Public Health Emergency and…Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County, Hon. Joseph C. Welty, Presiding JudgeMaricopa County, Arizona (Justice Courts)CourtJuly 16, 20212021 Q3Gathering capFace-covering requirementCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. MET-PHX-025Administrative Order No. 2021-103In the Matter of Lifting Restrictions on Physical Access to Court Facilities Due to a Public Health Emergency (replacing AO 2021-073)Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County, Hon. Joseph C. Welty, Presiding JudgeMaricopa County, Arizona (Superior Court)CourtJuly 16, 20212021 Q3Gathering capFace-covering requirementCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. TX-041Thirty-Ninth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, Misc. Docket No. 21-9078 (Texas Eviction Diversion Program)Thirty-Ninth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of DisasterSupreme Court of TexasTexasCourtJuly 19, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. MET-RIV-046General Order No. 2021-27, Twenty-Seventh Implementation of Emergency Relief Authorized Pursuant to Government Code Section 68115General Order 2021-27 (July 20, 2021)Presiding Judge, implementing the Chief Justice's emergency order of July 20, 2021Superior Court of California, County of RiversideCourtJuly 20, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. RI-084Supreme Court Executive Order 2021-04COVID-19 Pandemic Response - Continuity of OperationsRhode Island Supreme Court (Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell)Rhode IslandCourtJuly 20, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesVaccination or testingPrimary source read
Ex. MET-MSY-071Order 2021-00624th JDC: masks required in all common areas of the Thomas F. Donelon Courthouse from July 22, 2021Chief Judge Ellen Shirer Kovach24th Judicial District Court, Parish of JeffersonCourtJuly 21, 20212021 Q3Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-042Memorandum Regarding Jury Trial Proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas in New Castle CountyProtocols for the resumption of jury trials from August 2021: one trial day per week in August-September 2021, two in October; Zoom case…Court of Common Pleas for the State of Delaware (New Castle County)Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware, New Castle CountyCourtJuly 23, 20212021 Q3Capacity limitCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. MET-STL-092State ex rel. Schmitt v. Page et al., No. 21SL-CC03334 (petition filed July 26, 2021) (secondary-source record)Legal cover: Schmitt takes novel approach in mask mandate challenge (Missouri Lawyers Media, Aug. 16, 2021)Attorney General Eric Schmitt (petition), as reported by Missouri Lawyers MediaSt. Louis County Circuit Court (21st Judicial Circuit), MissouriCourtJuly 26, 20212021 Q3OtherConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MI-080Michigan Supreme Court Administrative Orders (official compilation, current through July 2022), including the July 26, 2021 rescission of AOs 2020-1, 2020-6, 2020-9, 2020-14 and 2020-19Administrative Orders compilation with the entered/rescinded history of every COVID-19 administrative orderMichigan Supreme CourtMichiganCourtJuly 26, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. MET-CMH-042Twelfth General Order in Response to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Public Health Emergency, No. 21MS000275Twelfth General Order in Response to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Public Health EmergencyFranklin County Court of Common Pleas, General Division (McIntosh, Adm. J.)Franklin County, OhioCourtJuly 27, 20212021 Q3Gathering capFace-covering requirementCourts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. SD-087Standing Order Revoking Standing Order Converting Misdemeanor Warrants (Notwithstanding Domestic Abuse, Stalking, Violation of Protection Orders, and Violations of No Contact Orders) to PR Bench Warrants, CIV 20-4Standing Order Revoking Warrant-Conversion OrderPresiding Judge, Second Judicial Circuit; approved by the Supreme Court (Jensen, C.J.) July 27, 2021Second Judicial CircuitCourtJuly 14, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read
Ex. AL-063Administrative Order No. 12: Extending Orders Pertaining to Workers' Compensation CasesMarch 18, 2020 workers'-compensation order extended to October 29, 2021Supreme Court of AlabamaAlabamaCourtJuly 28, 20212021 Q3Courts and public officesPrimary source read