{"id":"FED-316","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta, Gainesville, Newnan, Rome)","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Chief Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr.","authority":"inherent authority; 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A)","instrument":"Fourth Amendment to General Order 20-01","title":"In re: Court Operations Under the Exigent Circumstances Created by COVID-19 (General Order 20-01, Fourth Amendment)","dateIssued":"2020-07-31","effective":"2020-07-04 through 2020-07-31","end":"2020-07-31 (further amended; General Order 20-04 amendments continued through Nov. 15, 2022 per the uscourts.gov listing)","startDate":"2020-07-04","endDate":"2020-07-31","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["litigants, counsel, jurors in the Northern District of Georgia"],"clause":"General Order 20-01, dated March 16, 2020, and amended by orders dated March [and April 2020, addressed the exigent circumstances] created by the spread of COVID-19. The Third Amendment to General Order 20-01, entered May 26, 2020, extended the time periods specified in the Order through and including July 3, 2020.... As the adverse conditions giving rise to General Order 20-01 have not sufficiently resolved for the Court to return to normal operations, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that General Order 20-01, as amended, is further amended to extend the time periods specified therein through and including the date of July 31, 2020. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that while there will be no civil or criminal jury [trials during that period]...","enforcement":"court order","functions":["CT Atlanta\u0027s federal court: no jury trials Mar. 16 - July 31, 2020 and beyond","CS"],"notes":"Retrieved from the Wayback Machine (capture of Sept. 3, 2020); recites the full chain from the original General Order 20-01 of Mar. 16, 2020.","sourceUrl":"http://www.gand.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/NDGA_GenOrder20-01_4adm.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200903132712/https://www.gand.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/NDGA_GenOrder20-01_4adm.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":106221,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"FED-B","url":"/library/FED-316","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/FED-316","citation":"Chief Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr, Fourth Amendment to General Order 20-01 (July 31, 2020) (Ex. FED-316)","stateName":"Georgia","related":[]}