| Ex. TX-065 | Forty-Third Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, Misc. Docket No. 21-9119Forty-Third Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster | Supreme Court of Texas | TexasCourt | Sept. 21, 2021 | | Courts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-020 | Board Announcement: Connecting during COVID-19Board announcement that the Workers' Compensation Board 'remains closed to the public' with hearings conducted only remotely (Virtual… | New York State Workers' Compensation Board | New York State Workers' Compensation Board (statewide administrative tribunal)Court | Oct. 4, 2021 | 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3 | Context (guidance or announcement)Business closureCourts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MET-CMH-053 | Fourteenth General Order in Response to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Public Health Emergency, No. 21MS000358Fourteenth General Order in Response to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Public Health Emergency | Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, General Division (McIntosh, Adm. J.) | Franklin County, OhioCourt | Oct. 8, 2021 | | Gathering capFace-covering requirementCourts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-008 | Administrative Order No. 2021-02Washington, D.C. Courthouse Access | Chief Judge Maurice B. Foley | United States Tax Court (Washington, D.C. courthouse)Court | Oct. 5, 2021 | | Capacity limitCourts and public officesVaccination or testing | Primary source read | |
| Ex. AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-018 | Press release: Court Standards and Protocols to Protect Public Health; summary of D.C. courthouse protocols (Oct. 5, 2021)Press Release: health protocols and courthouse access for in-person proceedings | United States Tax Court | United States Tax CourtCourt | Oct. 5, 2021 | | Context (guidance or announcement)Capacity limitFace-covering requirementCourts and public officesVaccination or testing | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MET-BNA-083 | S.B. v. Lee, No. 3:21-cv-00317-JRG-DCP (E.D. Tenn.), Memorandum Opinion and Order on the Knox County Board of Education's Amended and Restated Motion to Alter or Amend Judgment (Doc. 47, filed Oct. 12, 2021)Order granting in part the motion to alter or amend: exemptions permitted under Policy C-240; injunction otherwise maintained | Hon. J. Ronnie Greer, United States District Judge | Knox County, Tennessee (E.D. Tenn.)Court | Oct. 12, 2021 | | Face-covering requirementSchools and child care | Primary source read | |
| Ex. TN-068 | S.B. v. Lee, No. 3:21-cv-00317, Amended Memorandum Opinion and Order (E.D. Tenn. Oct. 12, 2021)Amended Memorandum Opinion and Order granting preliminary injunction: Knox County Board of Education ordered to enforce a mask mandate… | United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee (Greer, J.) | Tennessee (Knox County)Court | Oct. 12, 2021 | | Face-covering requirementSchools and child careCourts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-035 | General Administrative Order No. 2020-07 (eff. Oct. 15, 2021), amended nunc pro tunc Oct. 19, 2021Autumn 2021 amendment: courtroom distancing reduced from six to three feet; jury assembly areas expanded (Daley Center from Sept. 20, 2021… | Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans, Circuit Court of Cook County | Circuit Court of Cook County, IllinoisCourt | Oct. 19, 2021 | 2021 Q3 | Capacity limitGathering capCourts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. DUT-NJ-013 | JWC Fitness, LLC v. Murphy, No. A-0639-20 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. Oct. 18, 2021) (approved for publication)JWC Fitness, LLC v. Philip D. Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al.: no statutory or constitutional compensation for the closure and… | Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division (published opinion, Docket No. A-0639-20; on appeal from the Law Division, Sussex County, L-0388-20) | New JerseyCourt | Oct. 18, 2021 | | Standing dutyEmergency declarationBusiness closureCapacity limitOther | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MET-ORL-059 | Administrative Order No. 2020-06-13Amended Temporary Order Governing Trial Court Proceedings (access limitation of Aug. 23, 2021 lifted; face masks still required at all times… | Chief Judge Donald A. Myers, Jr. | Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida (Orange and Osceola Counties)Court | Oct. 8, 2021 | | Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesQuarantine and isolation | Primary source read | |
| Ex. ME-062 | Does 1-6 v. Mills, No. 21-1826, 16 F.4th 20 (1st Cir. Oct. 19, 2021)Opinion affirming denial of preliminary injunction against Maine's COVID-19 vaccination requirement for health-care workers | Lynch, Circuit Judge, for the court (Howard, C.J., Lynch and Barron, JJ.) | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (Maine)Court | Oct. 19, 2021 | | Health care ordersVaccination or testing | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MN-055 | Order Governing the Continuing Operations of the Minnesota Judicial Branch, No. ADM20-8001 (Minn. filed Oct. 18, 2021)Order Governing the Continuing Operations of the Minnesota Judicial Branch | Minnesota Supreme Court, Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea | MinnesotaCourt | Oct. 18, 2021 | | Face-covering requirementCourts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. SEC-01-111 | Does 1-6 v. Mills, 16 F.4th 20 (1st Cir. Oct. 19, 2021)Opinion describing and upholding Maine's Aug. 12, 2021 emergency rule requiring COVID-19 vaccination of healthcare workers (10-144 C.M.R.… | First Circuit | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (Maine rule)Court | Oct. 19, 2021 | | Vaccination or testing | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MET-BNA-082 | R.K. v. Lee, No. 3:21-cv-00725 (M.D. Tenn.), Memorandum Opinion and Order granting preliminary injunction (Doc. 85, filed Oct. 22, 2021)Preliminary injunction: Executive Order No. 84, as extended by Executive Order No. 89, enjoined in Williamson County pending trial | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee | Williamson County, Tennessee (M.D. Tenn.)Court | Oct. 22, 2021 | | Face-covering requirementSchools and child care | Primary source read | |
| Ex. TN-079 | R.K. v. Lee, No. 3:21-cv-00725, Doc. 85, Memorandum Opinion (M.D. Tenn. Oct. 22, 2021)Memorandum Opinion granting preliminary injunction against enforcement of Executive Order No. 84 (Williamson County and Franklin SSD) | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (Crenshaw, C.J.) | Tennessee (Williamson County; Franklin SSD)Court | Oct. 22, 2021 | | Face-covering requirementSchools and child careCourts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. AK-062 | Special Order of the Chief Justice No. 8340Special Order 8340, Update regarding COVID-19 and Civil Jury Trials (suspension continued to January 10, 2022) | Chief Justice Daniel E. Winfree | Alaska (statewide courts)Court | Oct. 28, 2021 | | Courts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MET-ORL-045 | Administrative Order No. 2020-06-14Amended Temporary Order Governing Trial Court Proceedings (mask requirement in court facilities discontinued) | Chief Judge Donald A. Myers, Jr. | Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida (Orange and Osceola Counties)Court | Oct. 25, 2021 | | Face-covering requirementCourts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MET-RIV-048 | General Order No. 2021-36 Re: Rescission of Access to Remote-Only Proceedings OrderGeneral Order 2021-36 (filed November 9, 2021) | Presiding Judge | Superior Court of California, County of RiversideCourt | Nov. 9, 2021 | | Courts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MET-RIV-047 | General Order No. 2021-34, Thirtieth Implementation of Emergency Relief Authorized Pursuant to Government Code Section 68115General Order 2021-34 (October 2021) | Presiding Judge, implementing the Chief Justice's emergency order of October 12, 2021 | Superior Court of California, County of RiversideCourt | Oct. 13, 2021 | 2021 Q3 | Courts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MET-SAT-074 | Opinion, Greg Abbott v. City of San Antonio and County of Bexar, No. 04-21-00342-CV, 648 S.W.3d 498 (Tex. App.-San Antonio 2021), affirming the temporary injunctionAbbott v. City of San Antonio, No. 04-21-00342-CV, Opinion (Delivered and Filed November 10, 2021) | Fourth Court of Appeals (Martinez, C.J.; Chapa and Rios, JJ.) | Fourth Court of Appeals, San AntonioCourt | Nov. 10, 2021 | | Other | Primary source read | |
| Ex. TX-066 | Forty-Fourth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, Misc. Docket No. 21-9139 (Eviction Diversion Program after TDHCA closure)Forty-Fourth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster | Supreme Court of Texas | TexasCourt | Nov. 10, 2021 | | Courts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MET-TPA-054 | Administrative Order No. 2021-045 PA/PI-CIRElimination of Face Mask and Distancing Requirements for Court Facilities in Conformity with the Florida Supreme Court Administrative Order… | Chief Judge Anthony Rondolino | Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida (Pasco and Pinellas Counties)Court | Nov. 10, 2021 | | Face-covering requirementCourts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. FED-300 | General Order 21-0033In re: Employee COVID-Vaccine Condition of Employment | Executive Committee and Restart Task Force of the Court (unanimous vote) | United States District Court for the Northern District of IllinoisCourt | Sept. 20, 2021 | 2021 Q3 | Workplace rulesVaccination or testing | Primary source read | |
| Ex. MET-DFW-096 | Opinion, Abbott v. Jenkins, No. 05-21-00733-CV, 665 S.W.3d 675 (Tex. App.--Dallas Nov. 22, 2021) (Nowell, J.), vacated (Tex. June 30, 2023)Fifth Court of Appeals opinion (Nowell, J.) affirming the temporary injunction against GA-38 in favor of Dallas County (Nov. 22, 2021) | Court of Appeals, Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (Opinion by Justice Nowell) | Texas (Fifth Court of Appeals, Dallas)Court | Nov. 22, 2021 | | Face-covering requirementCourts and public offices | Primary source read | |
| Ex. TX-067 | Forty-Fifth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, Misc. Docket No. 21-9145Forty-Fifth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster | Supreme Court of Texas | TexasCourt | Nov. 23, 2021 | | Courts and public offices | Primary source read | |