{"id":"FED-307","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"United States District Court for the District of New Jersey","state":"NJ","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Chief Judge Freda L. Wolfson","authority":"inherent authority; CDC guidance of July 27, 2021","instrument":"Updated Amended Standing Order 21-04","title":"In re: Court Operations Under the Exigent Circumstances Created by COVID-19 (Updated Amended, Sept. 3, 2021)","dateIssued":"2021-09-03","effective":"2021-09-03","end":"superseded by Standing Order 21-11 (Dec. 29, 2021)","startDate":"2021-09-03","endDate":"2021-12-29","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["CRT","MASK","CAP"],"addressees":["litigants, counsel, jurors, court staff and entrants"],"clause":"[WHEREAS the Delta] and other variants, and on July 27, 2021, the CDC recommended that all persons, including those fully vaccinated against COVID-19, wear a mask in public indoor settings, in areas of [substantial or high transmission]... [the Court has required] full vaccination of its employees, while continuing its protocols of temperature screening and hand sanitizing by all entrants to the District\u0027s courthouses, and mask wearing in all public areas of Court facilities by entrants and occupants thereof, regardless of vaccination status;... 1. No more than one jury selection, either civil or criminal, shall occur in each vicinage of this Court at one time... 2. Multiple, simultaneous jury trials may be conducted in each of this Court\u0027s vicinages, but the number of simultaneous criminal jury trials involving detainees in each [vicinage is limited]... DATED: September 3, 2021","enforcement":"court order","functions":["CT jury selections capped at one per vicinage; masks for all entrants regardless of vaccination status; temperature screening (Sept. 2021)","CS"],"notes":"A September 3, 2021 federal court order imposing capacity limits on jury selection and universal masking: a Q3 2021 CRT/MASK/CAP instrument.","sourceUrl":"https://www.njd.uscourts.gov/sites/njd/files/UpdatedAmendedSO2021-04Final.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":202104,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"FED-B","url":"/library/FED-307","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/FED-307","citation":"Chief Judge Freda L. Wolfson, Updated Amended Standing Order 21-04 (Sept. 3, 2021) (Ex. FED-307)","stateName":"New Jersey","related":["FED-306","FED-308"]}