{"id":"AGY-ST-COURTS-080","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (statewide)","state":"MA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-COURTS","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts","authority":"SJC \u0027superintendence and rule-making authority\u0027 (recited); Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 211, § 3","instrument":"Supreme 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)","title":"Q3 2021 court-operations order: end of Phase 3 jury-trial limits on July 9, 2021 but continued COVID-19 provisions, including six-person juries in Superior and Housing Court civil cases \u0027with or without the consent of the parties\u0027, reduced peremptory challenges, and exclusion of the general-continuance periods from speedy-trial computation; rescinded effective Jan. 1, 2024","dateIssued":"2021-07-01","effective":"2021-07-12","end":"2024-01-01 (rescinded by order of Nov. 1, 2023), with paragraph 6 continuing for juries empaneled before that date","startDate":"2021-07-12","endDate":"2024-01-01","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["CRT","GATH"],"addressees":["all Massachusetts state courts","litigants and counsel","jurors"],"clause":"In view of the guidance for vaccinated and unvaccinated persons recently issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Public Health (DPH), the Governor\u0027s lifting of the State of Emergency... the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), pursuant to its superintendence and rule-making authority, issues the following ORDER:... 6. Jury trials. Phase 3 of the resumption of jury trials in Massachusetts state courts will end on July 9, 2021. Thereafter there will be no further COVID-19-related limitations or restrictions on where and how jury trials are conducted, except as provided in this Order... Notwithstanding any rule to the contrary, until further order of the SJC:... (b) civil cases in the Superior Court and Housing Court that typically would be tried to juries of twelve... shall be tried to juries of six, with or without the consent of the parties","enforcement":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 211, § 3 (superintendence); order binding on all state courts","functions":["CT courts and agencies (Q3 2021: a COVID-19 court-operations order in force in every Massachusetts court from July 12, 2021)","SV servicing and collections (civil jury trials altered)"],"notes":"The SJC\u0027s own page shows the order was \u0027Entered July 1, 2021, effective July 12, 2021; Amended December 31, 2021\u0027 and rescinded only from January 1, 2024.","sourceUrl":"https://www.mass.gov/supreme-judicial-court-rules/supreme-judicial-court-seventh-updated-order-regarding-court-operations-under-the-exigent-circumstances-created-by-the-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":299073,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-COURTS","url":"/library/AGY-ST-COURTS-080","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-COURTS-080","citation":"Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Supreme 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) (Ex. AGY-ST-COURTS-080)","stateName":"Massachusetts","related":["AGY-ST-COURTS-076","AGY-ST-COURTS-079"]}