{"id":"GA-051","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Georgia (Augusta Judicial Circuit; Richmond County)","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Chief Judge, Superior Court of the Augusta Judicial Circuit","authority":"O.C.G.A. 38-3-61(a)-(b); 38-3-62","instrument":"Local Judicial Emergency Order (In Re: Local Judicial Emergency Order), filed in the Supreme Court of Georgia July 1, 2021","title":"Declaration of local judicial emergency upon expiration of the Statewide Judicial Emergency","dateIssued":"2021-07-01","effective":"2021-07-01","end":"30 days unless extended under 38-3-62 (Richmond County extensions filed July 30 and Aug. 30, 2021 per the Judicial Council list)","startDate":"2021-07-01","endDate":"2021-08-30","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["courts, litigants and counsel in Richmond County"],"clause":"Effective March 14, 2020, Georgia [Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold] Melton entered an Order Declaring Statewide Judicial Emergency due to the spread of COVID-19 [throughout] Georgia. Chief Justice Melton\u0027s Judicial Emergency Order has now been extended fifteen (15) times, with the most recent version filed on June 7, 2021 and set to expire June 30, 2021 at 11:59 [P.M.]... The March 14, 2020 Judicial Emergency Order suspended, tolled, extended, and [otherwise granted relief from deadlines]... of the deadlines on litigants were reimposed, effective July 14, 2020, by the Fourth Order Extending Declaration of Statewide Judicial Emergency filed on July 10, 2020. The exceptions to the reimposition of deadlines on litigants included deadlines for jury trial proceedings (including statutory speedy trial demands), deadlines for grand jury proceedings, and deadlines calculated by reference to the date of a civil or criminal jury trial or grand jury proceeding.... [The court does] DECLARE that there is an ongoing judicial emergency existing in this county which has been created by the statewide judicial emergency that has persisted for approximately fifteen (15) months immediately preceding this Order.","enforcement":"Court order under 38-3-61 filed with the Supreme Court of Georgia","functions":["CT courts (backlog; tolled jury and grand jury deadlines)","CL closings and litigation-dependent transactions","CB clients of law firms"],"notes":"Primary court record of the statewide judicial emergency\u0027s full history and of its continuation locally into Q3 2021; the Judicial Council page lists parallel July 1, 2021 orders in the Atlantic, Eastern (Chatham), Flint (Henry), Cherokee, Cobb and Rockdale circuits and later 2021 orders in Fulton (Sept. 28), Franklin, Hart, Columbia, Burke, Appling, Bartow, Gordon and others.","sourceUrl":"https://assets.georgiacourts.gov/2/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/19110710/Augusta_Richmond_2021-07-01_LJE.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":1277709,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"GA","url":"/library/GA-051","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/GA-051","citation":"Chief Judge, Superior Court of the Augusta Judicial Circuit, Local Judicial Emergency Order (In Re: Local Judicial Emergency Order), filed in the Supreme Court of Georgia July 1, 2021 (Ex. GA-051)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["GA-062","GA-063","GA-065"]}