{"id":"MET-PIT-037","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)","state":"PA","metro":"PIT","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Kim Berkeley Clark, President Judge (request to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, No. 23 WM 2020)","authority":"Pa.R.J.A. No. 1952(B)(2)","instrument":"Fifth Judicial District Request for Emergency Judicial Order (August 26, 2021): extension of the judicial emergency through October 1, 2021","title":"In re: Fifth Judicial District Request for Emergency Judicial Order (Aug. 26, 2021)","dateIssued":"2021-08-26","effective":"Granted by Supreme Court order of Aug. 30, 2021 (recited in MET-PIT-040)","end":"2021-10-01","startDate":"2021-08-30","endDate":"2021-10-01","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["CRT","MASK"],"addressees":["Supreme Court of Pennsylvania","all courts of the District"],"clause":"Kim Berkeley Clark, President Judge of the Fifth Judicial District, having previously declared a judicial emergency in the District through August 31, 2021, hereby requests... Authorize the President Judge to extend the current judicial emergency in the Fifth Judicial District... through October 1, 2021.... Suspend application of Pennsylvania Rule of Criminal Procedure 600 through October 1, 2021... The CDC level of community transmission classification in Allegheny County increased from substantial to high during week of August 14, 2021.... During the week of June 20, 2021, there were 70 confirmed cases... compared to the week of August 8, 2021, during which there were 969 confirmed cases... In 2020, due to the restrictions necessitated by the pandemic, there were only 19 jury trials held in the Criminal Division.... The Fifth Judicial District implemented a masking policy for court users regardless of vaccination status and court employees on August 8, 2021.","enforcement":"n/a (request); granted Aug. 30, 2021.","functions":["CT","OF"],"notes":"The District\u0027s own account of the Delta wave: 116 and 108 criminal jury trials in 2018 and 2019; 19 in 2020; 21 to August 26, 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://www.alleghenycourts.us/downloads/administration/Petition_August_26_2021-1.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210830205919/https://www.alleghenycourts.us/downloads/administration/Petition_August_26_2021-1.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":306107,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-PIT","url":"/library/MET-PIT-037","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-PIT-037","citation":"Kim Berkeley Clark, President Judge (request to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, No. 23 WM 2020), Fifth Judicial District Request for Emergency Judicial Order (August 26, 2021): extension of the judicial emergency through October 1, 2021 (Aug. 26, 2021) (Ex. MET-PIT-037)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":["MET-PIT-040","MET-PIT-034","MET-PIT-036","MET-PIT-035"]}