{"id":"IA-049","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Iowa (all State courts)","state":"IA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Iowa Supreme Court","authority":"Iowa Const. art. V, §§ 1, 4","instrument":"Supervisory Order, In the Matter of Ongoing Provisions for Coronavirus/COVID-19 Impact on Court Services","title":"Order continuing trials set before April 20, 2020, traffic proceedings before April 17, civil nonjury trials and hearings before May 4, directing mediation and small claims to videoconference or continuance, and closing the Judicial Branch Building to the public effective March 18, 2020","dateIssued":"2020-03-17","effective":"2020-03-17 (building closure March 18, 2020)","end":"Superseded by IA-050 (April 2, 2020) and IA-051 (May 22, 2020)","startDate":"2020-03-17","endDate":"2020-04-02","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["all Iowa courts, clerks, attorneys and litigants"],"clause":"\u0027[trials scheduled to] begin before April 20, 2020 shall be continued and reset to a date no earlier than April 20. This includes nonjury trials.... All traffic-related proceedings set to commence before April 17 shall [be continued]... all civil nonjury trials and other hearings set to commence before May 4 shall be either continued to a date [no earlier than May 4] or conducted [by videoconference or telephone]... Any mediation set to occur at a courthouse location before May 4 shall be continued or directed to occur by videoconference or telephone... District courts shall continue to conduct the following in-person business [emergency matters only]... [The Judicial Branch Building in Des] Moines 50319 shall be closed to the public effective March 18.\u0027","enforcement":"Supervisory order","functions":["CT court access limited to emergency in-person business","CL/SV court-dependent transactions delayed"],"notes":"Six pages.","sourceUrl":"https://www.iowacourts.gov/collections/476/files/1055/embedDocument/","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":3304318,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"IA","url":"/library/IA-049","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/IA-049","citation":"Iowa Supreme Court, Supervisory Order, In the Matter of Ongoing Provisions for Coronavirus/COVID-19 Impact on Court Services (Mar. 17, 2020) (Ex. IA-049)","stateName":"Iowa","related":["IA-050","IA-051","IA-048"]}